The Book Blinders

by John Clute

The first known dust-jacket to appear on a book in the UK dates from 1819.

Sadly, almost none of these jackets have survived. The one institution primarily responsible for this vandalism is the British Library, which removed dust-jackets from every book it accessioned, and destroyed almost all of them. As a result, almost no hardbound book accessioned by the Library after the middle of the nineteenth century was in fact presentable...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0645369640
• ISBN13: 9780645369649
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Norstrilia Press
• Length: 502 Pages
• Weight: 1.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"