The Times Literary Supplement reviews G. Thomas Tanselle's Book-Jackets: Their history, forms, and use.
From the piece...
Dust jackets have worried the pundits since the 1920s. Book buyers are divided over whether to retain or discard them. Librarians, who always discarded, are rebuked for destroying book history. Book historians dispute whether the jacket is even part of the book. Bibliographers don’t know whether to describe jackets, or, if they do, what they should say about them. And second-hand booksellers rejoice in the confusion, some marking up prices furiously, others shaking their heads in wonder at this further proof of the idiocy, as they see it, of the “modern first” market.
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