The Enemies of Books
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Chapter 1 - Fire
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Chapter 2 - Water
10:14 -
Chapter 3 - Gas and Heat
7:51 -
Chapter 4 - Dust and Neglect
10:58 -
Chapter 5 - Ignorance and Bigotry
21:23 -
Chapter 6 - The Bookworm
28:02 -
Chapter 7 - Other Vermin
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Chapter 8 - Bookbinders
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Chapter 9 - Collectors
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Chapter 10 - Servants and Children
19:19
The Enemies of Books (1888) is a public domain work.
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Fire, damp and insects give William Blades a way to tell the history of books through the things that threaten them. In this 1888 edition of The Enemies of Books, he moves from lost libraries and burnt manuscripts to ordinary hazards such as heat, dust and careless handling. His examples connect the fate of individual volumes with religious disputes, household habits and the work of binders and collectors.
One chapter studies the creatures called bookworms, comparing conflicting descriptions and tracing how grubs pass from wooden covers into paper. Blades combines accounts from librarians with his own observations, making the physical construction of old books part of the story. Readers interested in book collecting or conservation will find a historical view of how printed pages, bindings and whole collections survive, alongside the author's close concern for the damage they can suffer.
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- Author
- William Blades
- Pages
- 53
- Language
- English
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