| | Page |
| Prefatory Note | [v] |
| Proem.
[1]
Ballade of the Bookworm (A. Lang) | [ix] |
| Edward D. Anderson. The Baby in the Library | [17] |
| Francis Bennoch. My Books | [19] |
| Laman Blanchard. The Art of Book-Keeping | [20] |
| Anne C. L. Botta. In the Library | [26] |
| H. C. Bunner. [1] My Shakspere | [28] |
| Robert Burns. The Bookworms | [31] |
| Catullus. [1] To his Book (Translated by A. Lang) | [32] |
| Beverly Chew. Old Books are best | [33] |
| Thomas S. Collier. [1] The Forgotten Books | [34] |
| Helen Gray Cone. An Invocation in a Library | [36] |
| Samuel Daniel. Concerning the Honor of Books | [38] |
|
Isaac D'israeli. Lines | [39] |
| Austin Dobson. My Books | [40] |
| To a Missal of the Thirteenth Century | [42] |
| The Book-Plate's Petition | [44] |
| Henry Drury. Over the Threshold of my Library | [46] |
| Maurice F. Egan. The Chrysalis of a Bookworm | [47] |
| Evenus. Epigram (Translated by A. Lang) | [48] |
| John Ferriar. The Bibliomania | [49] |
| F. Fertiault. Triolet to her Husband (Translated by A. Lang) | [57] |
| William Freeland. A Nook and a Book | [58] |
| Edmund Gosse. [1] The Sultan of my Books | [60] |
| Thomas Gordon Hake. Our Book-Shelves | [64] |
| Robert Herrick. To his Book | [66] |
| To his Book | [67] |
| Horace. [1] To his Books (Translated by Austin Dobson) | [68] |
| Leigh Hunt. Sonnet | [70] |
| Willis Fletcher Johnson. My Books | [71] |
| Ben Jonson. To my Bookseller | [73] |
| To Sir Henry Goodyere | [74] |
| Charles Lamb. In the Album of Lucy Barton | [75] |
| A. Lang. Ballade of the Book-Hunter | [77] |
| Ballade of True Wisdom | [79] |
| Ballade of the Bookman's Paradise | [81] |
| The Rowfant Books | [83] |
| The Rowfant Library | [85] |
| Ghosts in the Library | [87] |
|
George Parsons Lathrop. [1] The Book Battalion | [91] |
| Walter Learned. [1] On the Fly-Leaf of a Book of Old Plays | [93] |
| Robert Leighton. Too Many Books | [95] |
| Frederick Locker. [1] From the Fly-Leaf of the Rowfant Montaigne | [97] |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. My Books | [98] |
| Lord Lytton. The Souls of Books | [99] |
| Cosmo Monkhouse. [1] De Libris | [105] |
| Arthur J. Munby. [1] Ex Libris | [107] |
| [1] On an Inscription | [108] |
| Caroline Norton. To my Books | [110] |
| F. M. P. 'Desultory Reading' | [111] |
| Thomas Parnell. The Bookworm | [112] |
| Samuel Minturn Peck. Among my Books | [116] |
| Walter Herries Pollock. [1] A Ruined Library | [117] |
| Bryan Waller Procter (Barry Cornwall). My Books | [119] |
| William Roscoe. To my Books on Parting with Them | [120] |
| Lord Rosslyn. Among my Books | [121] |
| John Godfrey Saxe. The Library | [122] |
| Clinton Scollard. In the Library | [124] |
| Frank Dempster Sherman. The Book-Hunter | [126] |
| Robert Southey. The Library | [128] |
| Robert Louis Stevenson. Picture-Books in Winter | [130] |
| Richard Henry Stoddard. Companions | [131] |
|
Richard Thomson. The Book of Life | [133] |
| Charles Tennyson Turner. On Certain Books | [135] |
| Henry Vaughan. To his Books | [136] |
| Samuel Waddington. [1] Literature and Nature | [138] |
| John Greenleaf Whittier. The Library | [139] |
| Tomas Yriarte. The Country Squire | [141] |
| Anonymous. Old Books | [144] |
| [APPENDIX.] | |
| George Crabbe. The Library | [149] |
| A Final Word. [1] The Collector to his Library (Austin Dobson) | [173] |
