Here is the irony:
We no longer need tyrants to burn books.
We are abandoning them willingly.
We trade deep reading for endless fragments of content.
We scroll instead of study. We choose distraction over depth.
We’re offering a Kelmscott Press treasures medieval legend:
Of the Friendship of Amis and Amile (1894), translated and printed by William Morris. A jewel-like small-format book, beautifully preserved in original boards, capturing Kelmscott’s revival of medieval printing.
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We’re currently offering a remarkable 15th-century incunable: the first edition of John de Magistris’ Quaestiones Perutiles — nine Aristotelian commentaries spanning science, medicine, psychology, astronomy, and biology.
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