When did books start having paper dust covers?
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August 13th, 2017
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On those occasions I buy or receive as a gift a hard bound book it invariably has a paper “wrapper” with colors and pictures designed to sell the book
I assume it was not always so
When did that start?
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Early 1800s.
@josie Do you keep the dust covers on or pitch them?
Lately the ones I’ve handled haven’t even been paper. They’re made of plastic or coated with plastic.
@chyna
I keep them
I like the way they look and I mark my page witth the inside flap.
It came about with the invention of dust during the Victorian Era in England.
To be more precise, dust was not actually invented during the Reign of Queen Victoria but that was during that time period when it was first noticed by males and then only because of the invention of the eyeglasses . Prior to that dust was the exclusive property of the dominion of the female because, as the distinguished scholar and author Dave Barry is quoted as saying in his abstract regarding Male Genetic Dirt Blindness: ”.....men—because of a tragic genetic flaw—cannot see dirt until there is enough of it to support agriculture.” But once dust was discovered it created the necessity of protecting ones possessions and thus dust covers for books, slip covers for divans and album covers for LP records.
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