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The Private Library

by Arthur Lee Humphreys

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2What Is a Good Edition?
  3. 3What Is a Fine Copy?
  4. 4Book — Values
  5. 5On the Care of Books
  6. 6The Art of Reading
  7. 7Common-place Books
  8. 8Reference Books
  9. 9Boudoir Libraries
  10. 10Bookbinding
  11. 11Book Hobbies
  12. 12Old Country Libraries
  13. 13Weeding Out
  14. 14The Catalogue
  15. 15Classification of Books
  16. 16Bookcases
  17. 17Miscellaneous Appliances
  18. 18The Library Annexe
  19. 19A Librarian
  20. 20The Library Architecturally
  21. 21Munificent Book-buying
  22. 22Passages Illustrative of the Foregoing
  23. 23The Dukes of Urbino
  24. 24Pieresc
  25. 25Mr. Ruskin’s Advice

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