WELCOME TO THE NEW ILAB WEBSITE!

Dear customers and ILAB dealers,

After eight years we at ILAB have decided to give our website a new look, new features, and modern search functions, with greatly improved and deeper content. The new ILAB website will have a far greater selection of what it has always provided: the best rare books in the World, supplied by the World's best rare booksellers. What's new on ILAB.org?

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  • The National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest

    The National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest

    The National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest will be awarded in autumn 2010 with a ceremony and lectures in the Library of Congress. The prize, which is supported by the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA), the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies (FABS), the Center for the Book and the Rare Books and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress) was established in 2005 ...

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  • Books in Hard Times

    Books in Hard Times

    ”The hotly anticipated Books in Hard Times conference held at the Grolier Club on September 22, 2009 drew 150 collectors, booksellers, and librarians. The usual suspects were in attendance along with a few new and young faces.  One might have expected the mood to be dark and somber, but even before the opening remarks, the tenor of conversation in the audience was optimistic.”

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  • The Aldine Italic

    The Aldine Italic

    From our survey of fifteenth century types it would appear that every country had its formal pointed black-letter; every country, save England, its classical roman type; and every country - except, perhaps, Spain - its cursive vernacular black-letter type, copied from the handwriting of the locality and time. Before 1500 Italy had no vernacular type simply because the current handwriting of Italy (which was not of the black-letter school) was only translated into type-forms at the beginning of the sixteenth century.

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