Presque vu XXXXIV

17th February 2008 with 0 Comments

Robert Fisk, in The Independent, is seduced by the power of historic books in a Beirut bookshop:
(Habib, the bookseller, walks) over to me with a massive volume, printed in 1890 and entitled Architectural Studies in Italy, number 49 out of only 150 copies, authored by William J Anderson, president of the Glasgow Architectural Association. “The [...]

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