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• Books -- Collectors and collecting

• The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections (second edition; Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1919), by A. Edward Newton (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections (London: J. Lane, 1920), by A. Edward Newton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Book Fancier: or, The Romance of Book Collecting (London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1886), by Percy Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Book Fancier: or, The Romance of Book Collecting (second edition, revised; London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1887), by Percy Fitzgerald (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Book-Hunter (new edition, with a memoir of the author; Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1883), by John Hill Burton, contrib. by Katherine Burton (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and pa e images)
• The Book Hunter (based on the second edition of 1863; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1900), by John Hill Burton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Books in Black or Red (New York: Macmillan, 1923), by Edmund Lester Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac, by Eugene Field (Gutenberg text)
• The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury, by Richard de Bury, trans. by Ernest Chester Thomas
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at philobiblon.com
• A Magnificent Farce, and Other Diversions of a Book-Collector (fourth impression; Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1922), by A. Edward Newton (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs (c1904), by Henry Howard Harper (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Hints to Collectors of Original Editions of the Works of Charles Dickens (London: G. Redway, 1885), by Charles Plumptre Johnson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Library (London: Macmillan, 1881), by Andrew Lang, contrib. by Austin Dobson and W. J. Loftie, illust. by J. J. Wild
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts (Helps for Students of History #17; London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: Macmillan, 1919), by M. R. James
  • HTML at tertullian.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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

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

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

• Baxter's Procrustes, by Charles W. Chesnutt (PDF at amazonaws.com)
• The Unique Hamlet: A Hitherto Unchronicled Adventure of Mr. Sherlock Holmes (c1920), by Vincent Starrett (multiple formats at archive.org)

• On Books and the Housing of Them (New York: M. F. Mansfield, 1898), by W. E. Gladstone
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)

• Ho Eranistes (full serial archives)
• The Colophon (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin du Bibliophile et du Bibliothécaire (in French) (partial serial archives)
• La Bibliofilia (partial serial archives)

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

• The Economics of the Manuscript and Rare Book Trade, ca. 1890-1939 (Leeds: Arc Humanities Press, c2024), ed. by Federico Botana and Laura Cleaver, contrib. by Angéline Rais, Hannah Morcos, and Danielle Magnusson (PDF at Project MUSE)

• Adventures in American Bookshops, Antique Stores and Auction Rooms (Detroit: Douglas Book Shop, 1922), by Guido Bruno (Gutenberg text)

• Romantic Libraries (2004), ed. by Ina Ferris (HTML at Romantic Circles)
• Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs (c1904), by Henry Howard Harper (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Book-Hunter (new edition, with a memoir of the author; Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1883), by John Hill Burton, contrib. by Katherine Burton (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and pa e images)
• The Book Hunter (based on the second edition of 1863; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1900), by John Hill Burton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Bookhunter (c2007), by Jason Shiga (page images at shigabooks.com)

• A Measuring Rod to Test Text Books, and Reference Books, in Schools, Colleges and Libraries (published by the United Conferate Veterans, ca. 1919), by Mildred Lewis Rutherford (multiple formats at archive.org)

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

• American Book Trade Manual (partial serial archives)
• American Book Trade Directory (partial serial archives)

• Christian Ludwig von Hagedorn: Ein Diplomat und Sammler des 18. Jahrhunderts (in German; Leipzig: Klinkhardt und Biermann, 1912), by Moritz Stübel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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 Guest, ed. by Montague John Guest, contrib. by Egan Mew
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• A Plea for Art in the House, With Special Reference to the Economy of Collecting Works of Art, and the Importance of Taste in Education and Morals (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, ca. 1876), by W. J. Loftie
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Museum Wormianum: seu, Historia Rerum Rariorum (in Latin; Leiden: Elsevir, 1655), by Ole Worm (multiple formats at Biodiversity Heritage Library)

• The Connoisseur (1901-1992) (partial serial archives)
• The Collector, ed. by Alfred Trumble (partial serial archives)
• The Collector and Art Critic, ed. by David C. Preyer (full serial archives)
• Gazette des Beaux-Arts (in French) (partial serial archives)
• Antiques (partial serial archives)

• Chats on Postage Stamps (second impression; London: T. F. Unwin, 1920), by Frederick John Melville (multiple formats at archive.org)

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

• 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

More items available under broader and related terms at left.