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* pm Take Care of Your Books

on BBC Radio 3

Clerks must not permit the 'smutty scullion reeking from his stewpots' to touch the 'lily leaves of books'.
Morton Cohen reflects on Richard de Bury , the first great book collector in the English-speaking world, who rose to a high place both at court and in the Church and who, on his deathbed, wrote a treatise about his love of books that would have earned him immortality had he done nothing else.

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Morton Cohen
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Richard de Bury

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