At head of title: Primo Congresso mondiale delle biblioteche e di bibliografia.
The exhibit was organized by the Istituto italiano del libro at the initiative of the first World Congress of Libraries and Bibliography, as the second part of a "Mostra storica del libro italiano." The first part, held in Florence, covered book production from the beginning until the time of Bodoni; this, from Bodoni to the present. Cf. Pref.