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Enemies of Books

CHAPTER IX
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Unlike the destroyer Bagford, he has no useful object in view, but simply follows a senseless kind of classification.

For instance: One set of volumes contains nothing but copper-plate engraved titles, and woe betide the grand old Dutch folios of the seventeenth century if they cross his path.

Another is a volume of coarse or quaint titles, which certainly answer the end of showing how idiotic and conceited some authors have been.

Here you find Dr.
Sib's "Bowels opened in Divers Sermons," 1650, cheek by jowl with the discourse attributed falsely to Huntington, the Calvinist, "Die and be damned," with many others too coarse to be quoted.

The odd titles adopted for his poems by Taylor, the water-poet, enliven several pages, and make one's mouth water for the books themselves.


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