The Enemies of Books eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 84 pages of information about The Enemies of Books.

The Enemies of Books eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 84 pages of information about The Enemies of Books.

 Garnett (Dr.), 81. 
 Gas injurious, 29-38,
 Gatty’s (Mrs.) Parables, 76. 
 German Army at Strasburg, U.
 Gesta Romanorum, 66. 
 Gibbon, the historian, 2. 
 Glass cases preservative of books, 27. 
 Golden Legend, by Caxton, 52. 
 Gordon Riots, 11. 
 Government officials as biblioclasts, 65. 
 Grenville (Rt.  Hon. Thos.), 56. 
 Guildford, library at school, 129. 
 Guildhall, London, library at, 0. 
 Gutenberg, 123.
  —­ documents concerning, burnt, 13,
 Gwyn, Nell, housekeeping book of, 65. 
 “Gyp” brushing clothes in a library, 44.

 Hannett, on bookbinding, 76. 
 Havergal (Rev. F. T.), 76. 
 Heathens burnt Christian MSS., 7. 
 Heating libraries, 27. 
 Hebrew books burnt, 8. 
 Hereford Cathedral library, 76. 
 Hickman family, 56. 
 Histories of Troy, 111. 
 Holme (Mr.), 77. 
 Hooke (R.), his Micrographia, 71-75. 
 Horace’s Satires, 140. 
 Hot water pipes for libraries, 26. 
 House-fly, an enemy of books, 102. 
 Hudde, Heer, a story of, 17. 
 Hwqhrey’s History of Writing, 138. 
 Hypothenemus eruditus, 76.

Ignorance and Bigotry, P-66.  Illuminated letters fatal to books, 51. —­ initials, collections of, 123.  Indulgence of 15th Century spoilt by a binder, 109.  Inquisition in Holland, 63.

 Kirby and Spence on Entomologists, 75, 101. 
 Knobs of metal on bindings, 135. 
 Koran, The, 7.

 Lamberhurst, 61. 
 Lamport Hall, 58. 
 Lansdowne Collection of MSS., 60. 
 Latterbury, copy of, at St. Martin’s, 54. 
 Leather destroyed by gas, 30. 
 Lepisma, 96.
  —­ mistaken for bookworm, 75. 
 Libraries
  burnt:  by Caesar, 3.
   —–­ at Dutch Church, 15.
   —–­ at Strasbourg, 13.
  neglected in England, 15, 22, 40.
  at Alexandria, 3.
  of the Ptolemies) 3. 
 Library Journal, The, 94. 
 Lincoln Cathedral MSS., 124. 
 Lincolne Nosegaye, 124. 
 London Institution, 31. 
 Lubbock (Sir J.), 90. 
 Luke’s, St., account of destruction of books, 4. 
 Luxe des Livres, 47. 
 Luxury and learning, 42.

 Machlinia, book printed by, 106. 
 Magdalene College, Cambridge, 128. 
 Maitland (Rev. S. R.), 54. 
 Mansfield (Lord), ij. 
 MS. Plays burnt, 60. 
 Manuscripts, fragments of, 126. 
 Margins of books cut away, 49, 127. 
 Maximilian (The Emperor), 125. 
 Mazarin library, Caxton in, 52. 
 Metamorphoses of Ovid, by Caxton, 10. 
 Micrographia, by R. Hooke, 71. 
 Middleburgh, 17. 
 Mildew in books, 136. 
 Minorite friars, 37. 
 Missal illuminations, sale of, 119. 
 Mohammed’s reason for destroying books, 7. 
 Mohammed II throws books into the sea, 21. 
 Monks at Monte Cassino, 49. 
 Mould in books, 24. 
 Mount Cassin, library at, 50. 
 Moxon’s Mechanic Exercises, 115. 
 Muller (M.), of Amsterdam, 62.

 Newmarsh (Rev. C. F.), 54. 
 Niptus Hololeucos, 101. 
 Noble (Mr.), on Parish Registers, 61. 
 Notes and Queries, 77.

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