The books were sturdy, luxuriously bound in a material the color of antique ivory. The pages were thick and rough to the touch. He could tell that the books were old — very old. “I look around ...
In his delightful memoir of collecting rare and fine books, The Book Beautiful, Sebastian writes, “…don’t miss out on the many-layered, intoxicating pleasures of book collecting….
A Library of Libraries: Private Collections in the Bentley Rare Book Museum is an exhibition that highlights and critically analyzes private book collections that exist in the Bentley Rare Book Museum ...