The building of a library is an intimate endeavor that reveals the deepest reaches of our intelligence to one who knows how to read it: in all its foundations, affinities, curiosity, complexity, diversity, secrets…
There is no complicity more powerful, nor more discreet, than that of a gaze cast across the shelves of a library. Presentation inscriptions, bookplates, armorial bindings, provenances: step inside illustrious libraries and share the intellectual intimacy of artists, scholars, writers, and the great figures of history and culture.
Writers of the Négritude movement never preached sectarism: they proposed an ontological refoundation capable of addressing what may prove one of the defining identity questions of the world to come: I think, but who am I?
The hour is not for poetry.The hour is for poets.
To all those who preserve the voice of Humankind.
And to those who are made to fall silent.
To suspended time.
Love was always cause for celebration but seldom the wars waged in its name. And yet beware, Valentine: your disciples are undisciplined, for love is plural and loves, singular!
From Gutenberg to Robespierre, explore the golden ages of the book: incunabula, humanist editions, classical authors, Enlightenment philosophers, revolutionary works. A selection of books printed between 1450 and 1789, in first editions and fine period bindings.
First edition, one of 75 numbered copies on Montval paper, the deluxe issue.A pleasing wide-margined copy.