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After quoting Dibdin, with the addition of a few flights of imagination of his own, Ringwalt states that this ` ` paper-eating moth is supposed to have been introduced into England in hogsleather binding from Holland. ''
The Enemies of Books 1888
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After quoting Dibdin, with the addition of a few flights of imagination of his own, Ringwalt states that this "paper-eating moth is supposed to have been introduced into England in hogsleather binding from Holland."
The Enemies of Books William Blades 1857
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