Books about Books (AKA "Libraries, Librarians, and Other Book Lovers")

This CD, with 80 books, includes books specifically about libraries and librarians as well as books by "lovers of books" (mainly essays about books and authors), such as Aristotle, Bacon, Carlyle, Emerson, Howell, Lang, Montaigne, and Warner. (FYI -- The illustration here is a painting from the 15th century titled, "The Librarian" by Giuseppe Arcimboldo.)

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Table of Contents

Libraries and Librarians

• Among Famous Books by John Kelman
• Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University
• Dewey Decimal Classification: a Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamplets of a Library by Melvin Dewey, 1876
• English Embroidered Bookbindings by Cyril Davenpot, 1899
• Essays on arious Scubjects by Arthur Bostwick, 1920
• The Evolution of English Lexicography by James Murray (1837-1915)
• The Guide to Reading edited by Lyman Abbott (1835-1922)
• A Librarian's Open Shelf:Essays on Various Subjects by Arthur Bostwick, 1920
• A Library Primer by John Cotton Dana, 1903
• Library Work with Children edited by Arthur Bostwick
• Lists of Stories and Programs for Story Hours by the stuff of the children's department, St. Louis Public Library, 1921
• Literary Taste and How to Form It, with Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature by Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)
• The Love of Books: The Philobiblioin by Richard de Bury (1281-1345) translated by E.C. Thomas
• Mediaevel Universities by Arthur Norton
• Old English Libraries: the Making, Collection and Use of Books in the Middle Ages by Ernest Savage
• On Books and the Housing of Them by William Ewart Gladstone (1809-1898)
• The Reformed Librarie-Keeper by John Dury, 1650
• Reproduction of Copyrighted Works by Educators and Librarians, US Copyright Office Circular 21, 1998
• A Selection of Books Published by Methuen and Co, London [just a list]
• Workshop on Electronic Texts, Library of Congress June 9-10 1992, Proceedings, edited by James Daly

Other Lovers of Books (books about books and authors)

Aristotle (384-322 BC)

• Poetics

Birrell Augustine (1850-1933)

• Obiter Dicta

Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

• Essays

Henry Beers (1847-1926)

• From Chaucer to Tennyson
• A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century

William Benson (1682)-1754)

• Letters concerning Poetical Translation and virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, 1739

Sir Richard Blackmore (1654?-1729)

• Essay upon Wit, 1716

Arthur Bostwick

• Essays on Various Subjects

Samuel Butler (1835-1902)

• Essays on Life, Art, and Science

Henry Seidel Canby (1878-1961)

• Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

• On the Choice of Books, 1866
• Past and Present, 1843

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

• Biographia Literaria

Stephen Coleridge

• The Glory of English Prose

George Crabbe (1754-1832)

• The Library (poem)

Gerogina Pell Curtis (1859-1922)

• The Interdependence of Literature

Charles W. Eliot (1834-1926)

• Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books, editor (from the Harvard Classics, which he edited)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

• The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Essays, First Series
• Essays, Second Series
• Representative Men

Annie Fields (1834-1915)

• Authors and Friends

James T. Fields (husband of Annie Fields and partner in the publishing firm Ticknor and Fields) (1817-1881)

• Yesterdays with Authors

Edmund Gosse (1849-1928)

• Gossip in a Library (essays), 1913

Reuben Halleck (1859-1936)

• History of American Literature

Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904)

• Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn, 1922

William Dean Howells (1837-1920)

• Of Literature (four books in one file)
• Literary Friends and Acquaintances
• Biographical
• My First Visit to New England
• First Impressions of Literary New York
• Roundabout to Boston
• Literary Boston As I Knew It
• Oliver Wendell Holmes
• The White Mr. Longfellow
• Studies of Lowell
• Cambridge Neighbors
• A Belated Guest [Bret Harte]
• My Mark Twain
• Literature and Life
• Man of Letters in Business
• Confessions of a Summer Colonist
• The Young Contributor
• Last Days in a Dutch Hotel
• Anomalies of the Short Story
• Spanish Prisoners of War
• American Literary Centers
• Standard Household Effect Co.
• Notes of a Vanished Summer
• Worries of a Winter Walk
• Summer Isles of Eden
• Wild Flowers of the Asphalt
• A Circus in the Suburbs
• A She Hamlet
• The Midnight Platoon
• The Beach at Rockaway
• Sawdust in the Arena
• At a Dime Museum
• American Literature in Exile
• The Horse Show
• The Problem of the Summer
• Aesthetic New York Fifty-odd Years Ago
• From New York into New England
• The Art of the Adsmith
• The Psychology of Plagiarism
• Puritanism in American Fiction
• The What and How in Art
• Politics in American Authors
• Storage
• "Floating down the River on the O-hi-o"
• My Literary Passions
• The Bookcase at Home
• Goldsmith
• Cervantes
• Irving
• First Fiction and Drama
• Longfellow's "Spanish Student"
• Scott
• Lighter Fancies
• Pope
• Various Preferences
• Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Ossian
• Shakespeare
• Ik Marvel
• Dickens
• Wordsworth, Lowell, Chaucer
• Macaulay.
• Critics and Reviews.
• A Non-literary Episode
• Thackeray
• "Lazarillo De Tormes"
• Curtis, Longfellow, Schlegel
• Tennyson
• Heine
• De Quincey, Goethe, Longfellow.
• George Eliot, Hawthorne, Goethe, Heine
• Charles Reade
• Dante
• Goldoni, Manzoni, D'azeglio
• "Pastor Fido," "Aminta," "Romola," "Yeast," "Paul Ferroll"
• Erckmann-chatrian, Bjorstjerne Bjornson
• Tourguenief, Auerbach
• Certain Preferences and Experiences
• Valdes, Galdos, Verga, Zola, Trollope, Hardy
• Tolstoy
• Criticism and Fiction

Brimley Johnson (1867-1932)

• Famous Reviews (selected and edited by Johnson)

Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

• Adventures Among Books
• Books and Bookmen
• How to Fail in Literature
• Letters on Literature
• Letters to Dead Authors
• The Library

George Henry Lewes (1817-1878)

• The Principles of Success in Literature

William Joseph Long (1866-1952)

• English Literature: Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World

Ian Maclaren (= Rev. John Watson) (1850-1907)

• Books and Bookmen

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)

• Essays, translated to English by Charles Cotton, edited by William Carew Hazlitt
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Volume 4
• Volume 5
• Volume 6
• Volume 7
• Volume 8
• Volume 9
• Volume 10

J. Middleton Murry

• Aspects of Literature, 1920

Bliss Perry (1860-1954)

• The American Spirit in Literature

Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805)

• Aesthetical and Philosophical Essays

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)

• The Philosophy of Style

Lytton Strachey (1880-1932)

• Books and Characters, French and English, 1922

Jonathan Swift  (1667-1745)

• The Battle of the Books and Other Short Pieces

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

• On the Significance of Science and Art

Carl Van Doren (1885-1950)

• Contemporary American Novelists 1900-1920

C.E. Vaughan

• English Literary Criticism

Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900)

• Complete Essays
• What is Your Culture to Me? 1872

A Personal Reading Record (I'm a compulsive list-maker)

• List of the 2750 books read by Richard Seltzer 1958-2005 (html document with Web links)
• Personal list of top contemporary novelists and my favorite books of theirs published 1972-2005 (html document with Web links)
• Best of the best (top 22 contemporary novelists)

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