Bibliothèque Nationale, L’Enfer de la Bibliothèque, Eros au secret (pdf): Dans les années 1830, les ouvrages imprimés dits « contraires aux bonnes moeurs » publiés sous le manteau, poursuivis ou condamnés, sont séparés du reste des collections de la Bibliothèque royale et rassemblés afin de constituer une section distincte intitulée Enfer et conservée à la [...]
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L’Enfer de la Bibliothèque, Eros au secret.
December 5th, 2007
Tags: art · bibliothèque nationale · france · library · literature · pornography · sexuality
The London Library
November 16th, 2007
The Daily Telegraph: “The handsome house in the corner of St James’s Square, which now has 8,000 members and one million books, has for the past 160 years been the best ‘place on the civilised earth’, but it no longer caters for those who are ‘not rich’. Carlyle’s insistence that readers pay only a ‘small [...]
Tags: books · library · literature · london · london library · reading
Jail Finds
October 31st, 2007
Jail Finds – a photoset on Flickr: “These are things I find abandoned in books or stuffed on the book cart at the jail where I volunteer.”
Librophiliac Love Letter: A Compendium of Beautiful Libraries
September 8th, 2007
Real Gabinete Portugues De Leitura Rio De Janeiro, Brazil Curious Expeditions: Librophiliac Love Letter: A Compendium of Beautiful Libraries
Tags: architecture · design · library