Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Enemies of Books
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.
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