| 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 | Man sitting and reading
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