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Enemies of Books
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Descripción editorial
The wittiest commentary on book-collecting and the care of books ever written, Blades’s Enemies of Books enummerates the enemies as: Fire; Water; Gas and Heat; Dust and Neglect; Ignorance and Bigotry; The Bookworm; Other Vermin; Bookbinders; Collectors; Servants and Children. This new and corrected Tiger of the Stripe edition adds an article on 'Librarians as Enemies of Books' by Randolph G. Adams, an Introduction, a biography of Blades, and many helpful notes.
William Blades (1824–1890) was a printer and bibliographer. His Life of Caxton revolutionised our understanding of the first English printer.
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