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Enemies of Books

CHAPTER IX
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Mounted on stout card-board_.

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These beautiful letters have been cut from precious MSS., and as specimens of early art are extremely valuable, many of them being worth 15_s_.

each." Mr.Proeme is a man well known to the London dealers in old books.

He is wealthy, and cares not what he spends to carry out his bibliographical craze, which is the collection of title pages.

These he ruthlessly extracts, frequently leaving the decapitated carcase of the books, for which he cares not, behind him.


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