Author: William Blades
Year: 1880
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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 book collector and preserver, 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.
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