In 2010 John Blatchly asked whether the hand-painted armorial device attached to a folio of the first volume of "Quatuor concilium generalium" belonging to Cardinal Wolsey should be regarded as the first English bookplate. It is made of paper and was pasted onto the front pastedown of the book. However it was not printed. In this respect it is the only known example. The librarian David Pearson has argued that a plausible case can be made for regarding this as a kind of bookplate.