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

• 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 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 and illustrated HTML)

• Baxter's Procrustes, by Charles W. Chesnutt (HTML at the English Server)
• 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
  • illustrated HTML at rtpnet.net
  • Gutenberg text
• 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)

• The Colophon (partial serial archives)

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

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

• 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

• 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 Collector, ed. by Alfred Trumble (partial serial archives)
• The Collector and Art Critic, ed. by David C. Preyer (full 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)

• Women of the 1913 Armory Show: Their Contributions to the Development of American Modern Art (dissertation; Louisville, KY: University of Louisville, 2014), by Jennifer Pfeifer Shircliff (PDF with commentary at lousville.edu)

• TIGHAR Tracks (1985-), by International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (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)

• 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 A. Hall (HTML at LOC)

• English Furniture (London: Methuen and Co., c1905), by Frederick S. Robinson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• 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

• Collections in Context: The Organization of Knowledge and Community in Europe (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), ed. by Karen Louise Fresco and Anne D. Hedeman (PDF at Ohio State)

• 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 Coin Collector (London: G. Redway, 1896), by William Carew Hazlitt
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

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

• Issues of Authenticity in Chinese Painting (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999), ed. by Judith G. Smith and Wen Fong, contrib. by Richard M. Barnhart, James Cahill, Robert E. Harrist, Maxwell K. Hearn, Hironobu Kohara, Sherman E. Lee, Stephen Little, Qi Gong, Shih Shou-chien, Jerome Silbergeld, and Wango H. C. Weng (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• The Library, by Andrew Lang, contrib. by Austin Dobson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Printed Book (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1916), by Harry Gidney Aldis (HTML at lostcrafts.com)
• The Story of Books (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1901), by Gertrude Burford Rawlings
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Book Preservation Technologies (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• The Greatest Book in the World, and Other Papers (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1925), by A. Edward Newton (page images at CMU)
• 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)
• Bookbinding and the Care of Books, by Douglas Cockerell, illust. by Noel Rooke (illustrated HTML at aboutbookbinding.com)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.