Book collecting

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• Collectors and collecting
• Book selection
• Books

• Bibliomania

• Book collecting -- Addresses, essays, lectures
• Book collecting -- Dictionaries
• Book collecting -- England
• Book collecting -- Fiction
• Book collecting -- Great Britain
• Book collecting -- Periodicals

• Books -- Collectors and collecting
• Bibliophily

• Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs (c1904), by Henry Howard Harper (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Essentials of Book Collecting, by Robert F. Lucas (HTML with commentary at trussel.com)
• The Greatest Book in the World, and Other Papers (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1925), by A. Edward Newton (page images at CMU)
• The Library, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
• The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury, by Richard de Bury, trans. by Ernest Chester Thomas
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at philobiblon.com
• The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts, by M. R. James (HTML at tertullian.org)

• Books and Bookmen, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)

• ABC for Book Collectors (8th edition, 2004), by John Carter and Nicolas Barker (PDF with commentary at ilab.org)

• Old English Libraries: The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages, by Ernest Albert Savage (Gutenberg text)

• The Unique Hamlet: A Hitherto Unchronicled Adventure of Mr. Sherlock Holmes (c1920), by Vincent Starrett (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Literary Taste: How to Form It, With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature (seventh edition, 1914), by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
• On Books and the Housing of Them (New York: M. F. Mansfield, 1898), by W. E. Gladstone
  • illustrated HTML at rtpnet.net
  • Gutenberg text

• The Colophon (partial serial archives)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs (c1904), by Henry Howard Harper (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Romantic Libraries (2004), ed. by Ina Ferris (HTML at Romantic Circles)

• Lady Charlotte Schreiber's Journals: Confidences of a Collector of Ceramics and Antiques throughout Britain, France, Holland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Austria and Germany from the Year 1869-1885 (2 volumes; London and New York: John Lane, 1911), by Charlotte Schreiber, ed. by Montague John Guest, contrib. by Egan Mew
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

• The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard, by Anatole France (Gutenberg text)

• False Dawn (The 'Forties) (1924), by Edith Wharton (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Golden Bowl (1904), by Henry James (Gutenberg text)
• The Golden Bowl (New York edition, 1909), by Henry James (HTML at New Paltz)

• The Outcry (1911), by Henry James (Gutenberg text and page images)

• American Rifleman, by National Rifle Association of America (partial serial archives)

• The Law of Artistic Copyright: A Handy Book for the Use of Artists, Publishers, and Photographers, With Explanatory Dialogues (London: Remington and Co., 1881), by Martin Routh (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Dance Halls: Ordinances Governing the Conduct of Public Dances and Dance Halls, City of Buffalo, by Buffalo (New York) (HTML and page images at LOC)

• The Poetry of Travelling in the United States, by Caroline Howard Gilman (page images at MOA)

• Bearers of Meaning: The Ottilia Buerger Collection of Ancient and Byzantine Coins at Lawrence University, ed. by Carol L. Lawton (illustrated HTML at lawrence.edu)

• Bearers of Meaning: The Ottilia Buerger Collection of Ancient and Byzantine Coins at Lawrence University, ed. by Carol L. Lawton (illustrated HTML at lawrence.edu)

• Antique Maps (based on the third edition, 1989), by Carl Moreland and David Bannister (illustrated HTML at AntiqueMaps.co.uk)

• The Lace and Embroidery Collector: A Guide to Collectors of Old Lace and Embroidery (1922), by Mrs R. E. Head
  • Part 1: PDF at Arizona
  • Part 2: PDF at Arizona
  • Part 3: PDF at Arizona

• Ethnographic Collections in the Archive of Folk Culture: a Contributor's Guide, by Stephanie Hall (HTML at LOC)

• The Lace and Embroidery Collector: A Guide to Collectors of Old Lace and Embroidery (1922), by Mrs R. E. Head
  • Part 1: PDF at Arizona
  • Part 2: PDF at Arizona
  • Part 3: PDF at Arizona
• Old Lace: A Handbook for Collectors (London: B. T. Batsford, 1908), by Margaret Jourdain
  • Part 1: PDF at Arizona
  • Part 2: PDF at Arizona
  • Part 3: PDF at Arizona

• The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury, by Richard de Bury, trans. by Ernest Chester Thomas
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at philobiblon.com

• A Book for All Readers: An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900), by Ainsworth Rand Spofford (Gutenberg text)
• Book Preservation Technologies (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Bookbinding and the Care of Books, by Douglas Cockerell, illust. by Noel Rooke (illustrated HTML at aboutbookbinding.com)
• The Greatest Book in the World, and Other Papers (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1925), by A. Edward Newton (page images at CMU)
• The Library, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
• The Printed Book (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1916), by Harry Gidney Aldis (HTML at lostcrafts.com)

• Books and Bookmen, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)

• Book Preservation Technologies (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• The Care and Repair of Books (New York: R. R. Bowker, 1946), by Harry Miller Lydenberg and John Archer (page images at CMU)
• The Enemies of Books (1888 edition), by William Blades
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text

• Book Preservation Technologies (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• The Book: Its Printers, Illustrators, and Binders, From Gutenberg to the Present Time (London: H. Grevel and Co., 1890), by Henri Bouchot (page images at CMU)

• Appleton's Magazine (full serial archives)

• Alleged Price Fixing of Library Books: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-Ninth Congress, Second Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 191 (Washington: GPO, 1966), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature (new edition; 10 parts plus appendix; London: H. G. Bohn, 1857-1865), by William Thomas Lowndes and Henry G. Bohn (page images at HathiTrust)

• It Goes On the Shelf, ed. by Ned Brooks (full serial archives)

• English Prose Fiction: A Selected List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (abridged version of Fiction Catalog; Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fiction Catalog: A Complete List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1911) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fiction Catalog: A Selected List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
• List of Books for Girls and Women and Their Clubs: With Descriptive and Critical Notes and a List of Periodicals and Hints for Girls' and Women's Clubs (Boston: Published for the American Library Association Publishing Section by the Library Bureau, 1895), ed. by George Iles and Augusta H. Leypoldt (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pantology: or, A Systematic Survey of Human Knowledge, Proposing a Classification of All Its Branches and Illustrating Their History, Relations, Uses, and Objects (Philadelphia: Hogan and Thompson, 1841), by Roswell Park (multiple formats at archive.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.