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The Private Library

by Arthur Lee Humphreys

A practical, opinionated guide for the private book collector on how to build, house, and actually care for a personal library. Humphreys wrote for the amateur enthusiast rather than the professional scholar, with real warmth for the pursuit. It reads like advice from an older colleague who has already made every mistake worth avoiding.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 2 hr 15 min

Where to find it

On the Archive shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #28174. In the public domain in the United States.