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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Enemies of Books by William Blades: water .pipes.-Asbestos fire.-Glass doors to bookcases.
CHAPTER III.
GAS AND HEAT.
Effects of Gas on leather.--Necessitates re-binding.--Bookbinders.--Electric
light.--British Museum.-Treatment of books.- Legend of Friars and their books.
CHAPTER IV.
DUST AND NEGLECT.
Books should have gilt tops.-Old libraries were neglected.--
Instance of a College library.- Clothes brushed in it.-Abuses
in French libraries.-Derome's account of them.--Boccaccio's story
of library at the Convent of Mount Cassin.
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