Chapter I: Preface

_It has been thought that a collection of some of Mr. Blades’s Fugitive Pieces would form a volume acceptable to the readers of the Book-Lover’s Library, as a companion volume to that distinguished bibliographer’s_ Enemies of Books.

_A selection of these papers is now therefore presented to the public in a more permanent form, and an Introduction containing a general notice of Mr. Blades’s life-work has been added._