CHAPTER I.
Fire.
There are many of the forces of Nature which
tend to injure Books; but among them all not one has
been half so destructive as Fire. It would be
tedious to write out a bare list...
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William Blades was among the leading bibliographical scholars of his time, and his name is still remembered for his superb scholarship on William Caxton, England's first printer, and for The Enemies o...
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The Enemies of Books
William Blades