BY JOHN JENSEN
Under threat of knee-capping if I failed to return it, a booklover friend of mine lent me a quaint rarity, The Enemies of Books by W Blades, Elliot Stock 1888. Here is the author’s list of enemies chapter by chapter: Fire; Water; Gas and Heat; Dust and Neglect; Ignorance and Bigotry; The Book Worm; Other Vermin; Bookbinders; Collectors; Servants and Children.