Editing Book (section)

=== Dummy books ===
[[File:Cigarette smuggling with a book.JPG|thumb|left|Cigarette smuggling with a book]]
Dummy books (or faux books) are books that are designed to imitate a real book by appearance to deceive people, some books may be whole with empty pages, others may be hollow or in other cases, there may be a whole panel carved with spines which are then painted to look like books, titles of some books may also be fictitious.

There are many reasons to have dummy books on display such as; to allude visitors of the vast wealth of information in their possession and to inflate the owner's appearance of wealth, to conceal something,<ref>{{cite web |last=Golder |first=Joseph |date=2021-10-28 |title=Man Finds Secret Passage Hidden Behind Bookshelf in His 500-Year-Old Home's Library |url=https://www.newsweek.com/man-finds-secret-passage-hidden-behind-bookshelf-his-500-year-old-homes-library-1644132 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223171800/https://www.newsweek.com/man-finds-secret-passage-hidden-behind-bookshelf-his-500-year-old-homes-library-1644132 |archive-date=February 23, 2022 |accessdate=2022-02-25 |publisher=Newsweek.com}}</ref> for shop displays or for decorative purposes.

In early 19th century at [[Gwrych Castle]], [[North Wales]], [[Lloyd Hesketh Bamford-Hesketh]] was known for his vast collection of books at his library, however, at the later part of that same century, the public became aware that parts of his library was a fabrication, dummy books were built and then locked behind glass doors to stop people from trying to access them, from this a proverb was born, "Like Hesky's library, all outside".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Apperson |first=George Latimer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7PMZJqSR4sAC&q=hesk%27s |title=Dictionary of Proverbs |date=2006-05-10 |publisher=Wordsworth Editions |isbn=978-1-84022-311-8 |pages=279 |language=en |access-date=March 27, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327190210/https://books.google.com/books?id=7PMZJqSR4sAC&q=hesk%27s |archive-date=March 27, 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sparke |first=Archibald |date=1922-03-04 |title=Pseudo-titles for "Dummy" books |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nq/s12-x.203.174a |url-status=live |journal=Notes and Queries |volume=s12-X |issue=203 |pages=174 |doi=10.1093/nq/s12-x.203.174a |issn=1471-6941 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327190217/https://academic.oup.com/nq/article-abstract/s12-X/203/174/4231316?redirectedFrom=fulltext |archive-date=March 27, 2023 |access-date=March 21, 2023}}</ref>