As any, even vaguely addicted book collector will have swiftly learned, most booksellers' catalogues are written in a parallel language that can fool anyone but the 'cognoscenti' and which makes the mysteries of the Rosetta stone, or Linear B, look l...
Dispatched to America in the early ''60s, the golden age of illustrative reportage, Ronald Searle spent several years covering everything-in the form of drawings in his trademark satirical and virtuosic style-from sports to politics, for magazines su...
Illustrated in Searle's inimitable style are the ancient noble ceremony of slashing the trockenbeerenauslese, the inauguration of the first authentic denominazione di origine controllata e garantita, and the vinolympics. For wine lovers who have neve...