An autograph is a handwritten message affixed by an author on a copy of one of his works. It can be specifically addressed to the near of the author, a colleague, and signed or not. Sometimes it is decorated with a drawing (Cocteau), a collage (Prévert) ...

A first edition is the first text print in a given state. Is the first impression of a work. It is sought after by collectors, bibliophiles, for its rarity, specific characteristics and quality of his condition.

The classic definition is that a former book is simply a book that was printed before 1851. But today the term refers to a larger reality: it denotes any rare book, more or less valuable, which not in a traditional library but in "antiquarian booksellers."

Le Littre laconically defines bibliophile like "love of books."

Vellum, calf, morocco, grief, sheepskin .... Jansenist to the band, the grotesque ... Full, half, with corners ... percaline ... signed or not, much of expression that may qualify a binder.

Gustave Doré occupied a central place in the visual culture of the nineteenth century. It marked the imagination of the twentieth and early twenty-first century, and comics - he is considered one of the founding fathers - and film.
The Orsay Museum devotes a virtual exhibition.

"There is no human species, there is a human race. This is because we are men like them that the SS will ultimately powerless before us."
This testimony of Robert Antelme, Deported Resistance to Buchenwald to Dachau and then released thanks to the intervention of François Mitterrand, had not immediately impact it has today.

Period of profound change, the civilization of the Renaissance will be completely new design of the book in the decades that constitute it.

The library is pleased to offer this intellectual journey through this civilization disappeared bibliophiles to his friends.