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

This CD, with 153 books, includes books about libraries, librarians, book collecting and the art of making books, as well as books about the craft of writing books, and by book lovers 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

Librarians,  Libraries, Book Collectors, and the Craft of Making Books

• Among Famous Books by John Kelman
• The Annual Catalogue or a new and Compleat List of all the New Books, 1736
• Banbury Chap Books and Nursery Toy Book Literature [ of the 18th and early 19th centuries]
• Bibliomania in the Middle Ages by F. Somner Merryweather, 1900
• A Book for All Readers, Designed as an Aid to the Collection, Use, and preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, 1900
• The Book-Hunter by John Hill Burton
• The Book-Hunter at Home by P.B.M. Allan
• The Book-Hunter in London, Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting by W. Roberts
• The Booklover and His Books by Harry Lyman Koopman, 1917
• Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs, and Book Clubs by Henry H. Harper, 1904
• Catalogue of the William Loring Andrews Collection of Early Books in the Library of Yale University
• Le Catalogue des Livres Censurez par la Faculte de Theologie de Paris [in French], 1544
• Dewey Decimal Classification: a Classification and Subject Index for Cataloguing and Arranging the Books and Pamplets of a Library by Melvin Dewey, 1876
• Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism by F.V.N. Painter, 1903
• English Book Collectors by William Younger Fletcher
• English Embroidered Bookbindings by Cyril Davenpot, 1899
• Forgotten Books of the American Nursery, a History of the Development of the American Story-Book by Rosalie V. Halsey, 1911
• The Great Book-Collectors by Chalres Isaac Elton, 1893
• The Guide to Reading edited by Lyman Abbott (1835-1922)
• Illuminated Manusripts by John Bradley
• International Copyright, Considered in Some of its Relations to Ethics and Political Economy by George Haven Putnam, 1878
• A Librarian's Open Shelf: Essays on Various Subjects by Arthur Bostwick
• Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods by J.W. Clark, 1894
• Library Work with Children, edited by Arthur Bostwick
• A Library Primer by John Cotton Dana, 1903
• Life in the Medieval University by Robert s. Rait, 1918
• 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
• A Mother's List of Books ofr Children compiled by Gertrude Weld Arnold
• 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 Private Diary of Dr. John Dee and the Catalogue of His Library of manuscripts edited by james Orchard Halliwell, 1842
• 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]
• A Short History of English Printing 1476-1898 by Henry R. Plomer
• The Typographical Technical Series for Apprentices by Frederick Hamilton
• Capitals
• Punctuation
• The Uses of Italic
• Wood-Block Printing by F. Morley Fletcher
• Workshop on Electronic Texts, Library of Congress June 9-10 1992, Proceedings, edited by James Daly

Books about Books and Authors and the Craft of Writing Books

Young E. Allison

• On the Vice of Novel-Reading, 1897

Aristotle (384-322 BC)

• Poetics

R.M. Ballantyne (1825-1894)

• Personal Reminiscences in Book Making

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

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

Asa Don Dickinson

• Stories of Achievement, volume 4: Authros and Journalists

Etienne Dolet (1509-1546

• La Maniere de Bien Traduire d'une Langue en Aultre [in French], 1540

J. Berg Esenwein

• Writing the Photoplay

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

George Hamlin Fitch

• Modern English Books of Power, 1912

Worthington Chauncey Ford

• The Isle of Pines by henry Neville, 1668, an Essay in bibliographpy

Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt

• Journal des Concourt, Memoires de la Vie Litteraire [in French]
• first series
• volume 1 1851-1861
• volume 2 1862-1865
• volume 3 1866-1870
• second series
• volume 1 1870-1871
• volume 2 1872-1877
• volume 3 1878-1884
• third series
• volume 1 1885-1888
• volume 2 1889-1891
• volume 3 1892-1895

Edmund Gosse (1849-1928)

• Gossip in a Library (essays), 1913
• Some Diversions of a Man of Letters, 1920

Remy de Goumont

• Le Livre des Masques [in French], 1896

Lady Gregory

• Poets and Dreamers: Studies and Translations from the Irish, 1903

Reuben Halleck (1859-1936)

• History of American Literature

Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904)

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

Bronson Howard

• The Autobiography of a Play

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)

John Kelman

• Among Famous Books

W.F. Kirby

• The Hero of Esthonia and other Studies in the Romantic Litearture of that Country, 1895

Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

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

Jules Lemaitre

• Les Contemporains, Etudes et Portraits Litereraires, first series [in French], 1886

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

Longinus

• On the Sublime, traslated by H.L. Havell

Hamilton Wright Mabie

• Books and Culture, 1896

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

• Books and Bookmen

Brander Matthews

• Inquiries and Opinions

H.L. Mencken

• A Book of Prefaces
• Damn! A Book of Calumny

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

John Morley

• Diderot and the Encyclopaedists, volume 2
• Critical Miscellanies
• Volume 1, Essay 2 -- Carlyle
• Volume 1, Essay 3 -- Byron
• Volume 1, Essay 4 -- Macaulay
• Volume 2, Essay 2 -- Turgot
• Volume 2, Essay 3 -- Condorcet
• Volume 2, Essay 4 -- Joseph de Maistre
• Volume 3, Essay 1 -- Vauvenargues
• Volume 3, Essays 2 and 3 -- John Stuart Mill
• Volume 3, Essay 4 -- The Life of George Eliot
• Volume 3, Essay 5 -- On Pattison's Memoirs
• Volume 3, Essay 7 -- W.R. Greg
• Volume 3, Essay 8 -- France in the Eighteenth Century

James Murray (1837-1915)

• The Evolution of English Lexicography by James Murray (1837-1915)

J. Middleton Murry

• Aspects of Literature, 1920

Bliss Perry (1860-1954)

• The American Spirit in Literature

La Salle Corbell Pickett

• Literary Hearthstones of Dixie

William A. Quayle

• A Hero and Some Other Folks, 1900

Sir Walter Raleigh (1861-1922)

• Romance, Two Lectures, 1916

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

• Thoughts Towards Nature in Poetry, Literature, and Art, 1850

Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805)

• Aesthetical and Philosophical Essays

Clement Shorter

• Immortal Memories

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)

• The Philosophy of Style

Leslie Stephen

• Hours in a Library, volume 1

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

M.F. Tupper

• An Author's Mind, the Book of Title Pages, 1851

Carl Van Doren (1885-1950)

• Contemporary American Novelists 1900-1920

C.E. Vaughan

• English Literary Criticism

Leon H. Vincent

• The Bibliotaph and Other People

Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900)

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

Arnold Wynne

• The Growth of English Drama