Citation
(2003), "Threat to the borrowing of older books", Interlending & Document Supply, Vol. 31 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/ilds.2003.12231aab.039
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2003, MCB UP Limited
Threat to the borrowing of older books
Threat to the borrowing of older books
Iron gall ink is the latest enemy of the book. "Open an old book and the disconnected letters can fall into your lap, the paper a lace doily with a mass of letter shaped holes". While a solution (literally) has been found, the scale of the treatment is of course the ever present problem.
A bibliographic irony is that Miscellany's copy of Fahrenheit 451 – the temperature at which paper burns, by Ray Bradbury, bought in 1956 already has embrittled to a dark brown 25 per cent of the page area!
Source: New Scientist, 14 September 2002.