The Private Library / What We Do Know, What We Don't Know, What We Ought to Know About Our Books

by Arthur Lee Humphreys

THE

PRIVATE
LIBRARY

WHAT WE DO KNOW
WHAT WE DON'T KNOW
WHAT WE OUGHT TO KNOW
ABOUT OUR BOOKS

BY

ARTHUR L. HUMPHREYS

Fourth Edition.
LONDON: STRANGEWAYS & SONS
SOLD BY
HATCHARDS, 187 Piccadilly, W.
MDCCCC

PREFACE

WITH all the literature published on behalf of Free Libraries—institutions which, after all, are of doubtful good—no one so far has written a book to assist in making The Private Library combine practical useful qualities with decorative effect.