Böcker av John Clute

Annals of Vandalism at the British Library: A necrology. The British Library policy from its inception hadinvariantly stripped all cover matter from every volume it accessioned. As a result, almost nohardbound book accessioned by the Library after the middle of the nineteenth centurywas in fact presentable in a visual context: no dust-jacket artwork survived to brightenthe theatre of the book; no flap copy to articulate the rituals of expectation and entrythat coded successive unveilings of this transgressive literature.