"... lies, besides in the text, in its publishing adventures, and in the changes of ownership that it has lived through the centuries. The curiosity in intensifying its study at times brings the antiquarian to notice some details that up to now had been ignored, leading him to some true bibliographic, historical and literary discoveries"
Living With - And From - Books
"Croce really liked the 'excellent Pregliasco'": ILAB is proud to present the history of the Libreria Antiquaria Pregliasco, seen through the catalogues published by three generations of antiquarian booksellers. By Umberto Pregliasco.
"the similarity of my handwriting to that of the great Charles Dickens ... appeared to me to be so curious a coincidence, that I (who had, up to that moment, never seen Dicken's [sic] writing in my life) went purposely to South Kensington Museum where ... the shock was as great to me as to the discoverer of the likeness." Roy Davids knows everything about the fascination of collecting no books, just manuscripts.
"the similarity of my handwriting to that of the great Charles Dickens ... appeared to me to be so curious a coincidence, that I (who had, up to that moment, never seen Dicken's [sic] writing in my life) went purposely to South Kensington Museum where ... the shock was as great to me as to the discoverer of the likeness." 
Books "sheltering" democracy with barbed wire, a reliquary for the "Satanic Verses", Big Brother is watching you from a book cover ... A new book about the famous book artist: 
The story was posted by Michael Eisen on April 22, a CNN report by John D. Sutter followed on April 25. Exciting! Or not? 
L'Arengario Studio Bibliografico
Hünersdorff
Brockhaus/Antiquarium
Woodburn Books
