Enemies of Books (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Enemies of Books<br><br>Before the invention of Printing books were comparatively scarce; and ''knowing as we do how very difficult it is even after the steam-press has been working for half a century to make a collection of half a million books we are forced to receive with great in credulity the accounts in old writers of the wonderful extent of ancient libraries.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.