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Laurence Worms, President of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association (ABA), promised the ABA members that he would travel around the British Isles…

The term completist, as applied to book collectors, has always struck this writer as something of a misnomer. In one sense, the term certainly is…

En voilà une question ! Je pourrai sans doute remplir toutes les pages de la Lettre d'information avec ma réponse. Mais je ne le ferai pas. Par…

When the British taught the Swiss booksellers how to make tea ... The fifth ILAB Presidents' Meeting was held in Geneva in July 1952. It was the…

Book-jackets (or "dust-jackets," as they are often called), have been regularly used in America and some European countries since the early part of…

"The Milan conference saw the publication and distribution of A Compendium of Usages and Customs of the Trade (today: The ILAB Code of Ethics). This…

Here I am reporting from sunny Sydney where I am highly enjoying my ILAB internship. I am a student at the Moscow State University of Printing Arts…

Travelling animals have a long history. It is probable that our early ancestors, nomadic people, were accompanied by dogs, who helped them hunt,…

Oh, how I love extravagant sixteenth- and seventeenth-century displays of over-the-top erudition. Things like the Dictionarium Græcolatinum (1568),…

Jean-Henri Fabre loved to study bugs as a boy. He grew up poor in the south of France, gained a teaching certificate at age 19, and went on to become…

"Giacomo Girolamo Casanova was a gambler, swindler, diplomat, lawyer, soldier, alchemist, violinist, traveler, pleasure seeker and serial seducer. He…

During the Reign of Terror, large-scale public executions were conducted, including King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette, executed in 1793.…