Enemies of Books
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EAN/UPC/ISBN Code
9781904799368
Брэнд
Tiger of the Stripe
Автор
William Blades
Издатель
Книга по Требованию
Страниц
180
Год выпуска
2009
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 edition adds an article on Librarians as Enemies of Books, 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.