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

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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)
• Books in Black or Red (New York: Macmillan, 1923), by Edmund Lester Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• 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)
• 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, by Andrew Lang, contrib. by Austin Dobson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• 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

• 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
  • 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)

• Ho Eranistes (full serial archives)
• The Colophon (partial serial archives)
• La Bibliofilia (partial serial archives)

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