Tag Archive: 0bibliophilia

The last couple of weeks have seen me in Germany and America, visiting book fairs, customers, and libraries.  I have always enjoyed the international nature of the book trade.  As regular readers of this blog will know, I have a particular interest in the cultural history of France, Germany, and Russia, especially in how these cultures […]

Sooner or later, as a bibliophile, you are bound to come across the curse found in the library of the Monastery of San Pedro in Barcelona: ‘for him that stealeth a book, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him, let him be struck with palsy and all his members blasted, […]