“Dans le monde du livre ancien et de la recherche bibliographique, deux personnages sont, jours après jours, confrontés à des problèmes de recherche, d’identification et d’évaluation d’oeuvres anciennes, précieuses ou non: Le conservateur de bibliothèque et le libraire antiquaire. Le second, tout particulièrement, car de sa science et de ses connaissences dépendent son commerce et sa réputation.“

Georges A. Deny

The international Prize of $10,000 US is awarded every fourth year to the author(s) of the most original and outstanding work. Its purpose is to draw attention to the best academic work being done in the field, to reward and honor it in appropriate terms, and to publicize the League's support for the original scholarship on which the book trade so much depends. The first ILAB Prize for Bibliography was awarded in 1967 to Jean Peeters-Fontainas, followed by famous scholars like Claus Nissen, Wytze Hellinga, I. C. Koeman, Francois Weil, Gerhard Dünnhaupt, Anthony Hobson, and Lucas Heinrich Wüthrich.

15th ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography 2010

Two first Prizes of $10,000 each are awarded to Lotte Hellinga ("Catalogue of Books printed in the XVth Century now in the British Library, BMC. Part XI – England") and Jan Storm van Leeuwen ("Dutch Decorated Bookbinding in the Eighteenth Century"). The second prize of $5,000 goes to Friedrich C. Heller for his bibliography "Die bunte Welt. Handbuch zum künstlerisch illustrierten Kinderbuch in Wien 1890-1938."

16th ILAB Breslauer Prize for Bibliography 2014

The 16th Prize will be awarded in 2014 to one or more bibliographies published between 2009 and 2012. A book may be entered by the publisher, the author or any other interested party until April 2013.