PREVIOUS VOLUMES OF
BOOK-LOVER'S LIBRARY.
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How to Form a Library. By Henry B. Wheatley, F.S.A. Second Edition.
Contents: How Men have Formed Libraries.—How to Buy.—Public Libraries.—General Bibliographies.—Special Bibliographies.—Publishing Societies.—Child's Library.—One Hundred Books.
Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine. By William Carew Hazlitt.
The Literature of Local Institutions. By G. Laurence Gomme, F.S.A. The work is divided into the following Sections: 1. Local Government generally.—2. The Shire.—3. The Hundred.—4. Municipal Government.—5. Guilds.—6. The Manor.—7. The Township and Parish.
Foreign Visitors in England, and What They have Thought of Us. Being some Notes on their Books and Opinions during the last Three Centuries. By Edward Smith.
Modern Methods of Illustrating Books. Commencing with the early forms of illustrating books, and tracing the art down to our own day, the author leads the reader up to modern processes of producing illustrations.
The Dedication of Books. To Patron and Friend. A Chapter in Literary History. By Henry B. Wheatley, F.S.A.
Gleanings in Old Garden Literature. By William Carew Hazlitt.
The Story of some Famous Books. Second Edition. By Edward Saunders, Author of "Salad for the Social." Interspersed in the narrative are many amusing anecdotes, curious and suggestive allusions, and much out-of-the way information which will be welcomed by the book-lover and the student, as well as the reader who seeks amusement only.
The Enemies of Books. By William Blades. Second Edition. This entertaining volume gives a series of readable chapters on the various causes which have operated in the destruction of books.
The Book of Noodles. Stories of Simpletons; or, Fools and their Follies. By W. A. Clouston, Author of "The Book of Sindibad," "Popular Tales and Fictions," etc., etc.
How to Catalogue a Library. By Henry B. Wheatley, F.S.A., Author of "How to Form a Library."
Contents: Introduction on Cataloguing Generally.—The Battle of the Rules.—Print v. MS.—How to treat a Title-page.—Reference and Subject-Index.—The Arrangement of a Catalogue.—Something about MSS.—Rules for a Small Library.—A List of Latinised Names of Places.—A List of Classical Names.—An unusually copious Index is added.
Reporting in the Olden Time and To-day. By John Pendleton, Author of "The History of Derbyshire."
Studies In Jocular Literature. A Popular Subject more closely Considered. By William C. Hazlitt.
The Story of the IMITATIONE CHRISTI. By Leonard Wheatley. With a Portrait of Thomas à Kempis.
Books Condemned to be Burnt. By James Anson Farrer.
Books in Chains, and other Bibliographical Papers. By Wm. Blades.
Literary Blunders: A Chapter in the History of Human Error. By Henry B. Wheatley, F.S.A.
Book Song: An Anthology of Poems of Books and Book-men, from Modern Authors. Edited by Gleeson White.
Walton and the Early Writers on Fishing. By R. B. Manston, Editor of the Fishing Gazette.
Books that have been Fatal to their Authors. By Rev. P. H. Ditchfield.
Book Verse: An Anthology of Poems of Books and Book-men, from the Earliest Times to Recent Years. Edited by W. Roberts.
The Literature of Music. By James E. Matthew, Author of "A Manual of Musical History."
The Novels of Charles Dickens. A Bibliography and Sketch. By Frederic G. Kitton, Author of "Charles Dickens by Pen and Pencil," etc. With a portrait which has not been published before.
The Minor Writings of Charles Dickens: A Bibliography and Sketch. By F. G. Kitton, Author of "Dickensiana," "The Novels of Charles Dickens," "Dickens and his Illustrators," etc.
Book Auctions in England in the Seventeenth Century. By John Lawler, Compiler of the Sunderland and Ashburnham Catalogues.
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Errors in punctuations and inconsistent hyphenation were not corrected unless otherwise noted.
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