Creator
William Blades
Title
The Enemies of Books.
Coverage
London
Publisher
Trubner & Co.
Date
1880
Description
Bound by Lorenz Schwartz at The Zahn Bindery, circa 1907. Full black morocco with a matching design on both covers: a large silverfish (“bookworm”) inlaid in white morocco to center of cover, tooled in gilt. (Modeled after a fold-out plate in the book between pp. 62 & 63.) The borders imply the “trail” of a bookworm through the pages of a book, and also include supplementary tooling with flowers, olive branches, and dots in gilt.
Relation
From the collection of Nolan J. Goodman