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parchment.--Pierre Petit's poem.--Hooke's account and image.--Its
natural history neglected.--Various sorts--Attempts to breed
Bookworms.--Greek worm.--Havoc made by worms.--Bodleian and Dr.
Bandinel.--"Dermestes."--Worm won't eat modern paper.--America
comparatively free.--Worm-hole at Philadelphia.
CHAPTER VII.
OTHER VERMIN.
Black-beetle in American libraries.--germanica.--Bug Bible.--Lepisma.
--Codfish.--Skeletons of Rats in Abbey library, Westminster.--Niptus
hololeucos.--Tomicus Typographicus.--House flies injure books.
CHAPTER VIII.
BOOKBINDERS.
A good binding gives pleasure.--Deadly effects of the "plough" as used
by binders.--Not confined to bye-gone times.--Instances of injury.--De
Rome, a good binder but a great cropper.--Books "hacked."--Bad
lettering--Treasures in book-covers.--Books washed, sized, and
mended.--"Cases" often Preferable to re-binding.
CHAPTER IX.
COLLECTORS.
Bagford the biblioclast.--Illustrations torn from MSS.--Title-pages
torn from books.--Rubens, his engraved titles.--Colophons torn out of
books.--Lincoln Cathedral--Dr. Dibdin's Nosegay.--Theurdanck.--Fragments
of MSS.-Some libraries almost useless.--Pepysian.--Teylerian.--Sir
Thomas Phillipps.
CHAPTER X.
SERVANTS AND CHILDREN.
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