An Extract from The Enemies of Books

Skokie, Illinois: Black Cat Press, 1981. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. Paul Hazelrigg. Miniature hardcover in brown leather with gilt titles and illustration, 2 1/4 x 1 3/4 inches, 36 pages, red and black illustrations by Paul Hazelrigg throughout, decorative endpapers, tiny silver Lilliput bookseller's label on rear paste-down, no notable flaws. 249 copies printed by offset lithography on Srathmore Pastelle at Schori Press, bound in Los Angeles by Bela Blau; design, typography, and production by Norman W. Forgue. An excerpt taken from an essay by 19th century book collector William Blades on what is likely to destroy books and how to preserve them.