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The Enemies of Books

Name: The Enemies of Books
Brand: Libro Móvil
Price: 4.99 AUD
Availability: OnlineOnly

Author: William Blades

Read by: Aplicazona Estudios

Editor: Libro Móvil

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Format
Digital Audiobook

Duration
02:29.12

Published: 14th August 2019

Digital Audiobook

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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, Blades, 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, servants, and children. The book ends with a passionate call for reverence for old books, something he felt was lacking during his life.