Author : William Blades
Release : 2019-11-25
Genre : Fiction
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The Enemies of Books - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Enemies of Books write by William Blades. This book was released on 2019-11-25. The Enemies of Books available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'The Enemies of Books' is a book on biblioclasts and book preservation by the 19th-century bibliophile and book collector William Blades. In the book, the author, a well-known collector and preserver of the works of the English printer William Caxton, documented his outrage at any mistreatment of books in what became a passionate diatribe against biblioclasts, human and non-human, wherever he found them. The book includes chapters on the following enemies of books: fire, water, gas and heat, dust and neglect, ignorance and bigotry, the bookworm, bookbinders, book collectors, other vermin (such as rats or flies), servants, and children. The book ends with a passionate call for reverence for old books, something he felt was lacking during his life.