
Ballads of Books, chosen
by Brander Matthews
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About this eBook
- Compiler
- Matthews, Brander, 1852-1929
- Title
- Ballads of Books
- Credits
- Produced by David Starner, Paul Marshall and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- Z: Bibliography, Library science
- Subject
- Books -- Poetry
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 41230
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41230
- Release Date
- October 30, 2012
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Ballads Of Books
- 2.Ballads of Books — BRANDER MATTHEWS — NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY — To
- 3.FREDERICK LOCKER — PREFATORY NOTE.
- 4.Proem.
- 5.Contents. — Ballads of Books
- 6.BALLADS OF BOOKS. — THE BABY IN THE LIBRARY. — MY BOOKS. — THE ART OF BOOK-KEEPING. — IN THE LIBRARY. — MY SHAKSPERE. — THE BOOKWORMS. — CATULLUS TO HIS BOOK. — OLD BOOKS ARE BEST. — THE FORGOTTEN BOOKS. — AN INVOCATION IN A LIBRARY. — CONCERNING THE HONOR OF BOOKS. — LINES. — MY BOOKS. — TO A MISSAL OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY. — THE BOOK-PLATE'S PETITION. — OVER THE THRESHOLD OF MY LIBRARY. — THE CHRYSALIS OF A BOOKWORM. — EPIGRAM. — THE BIBLIOMANIA. — TRIOLET TO HER HUSBAND. — A NOOK AND A BOOK. — THE SULTAN OF MY BOOKS. — OUR BOOK-SHELVES. — TO HIS BOOK. — TO HIS BOOK. — TO HIS BOOKS. — SONNET. — MY BOOKS. — TO MY BOOKSELLER. — TO SIR HENRY GOODYERE. — IN THE ALBUM OF LUCY BARTON. — BALLADE OF THE BOOK-HUNTER. — BALLADE OF TRUE WISDOM. — BALLADE OF THE BOOKMAN'S PARADISE. — THE ROWFANT BOOKS. — THE ROWFANT LIBRARY. — GHOSTS IN THE LIBRARY. — THE BOOK BATTALION. — ON THE FLY-LEAF OF A BOOK OF OLD PLAYS. — TOO MANY BOOKS. — FROM THE FLY-LEAF OF THE ROWFANT MONTAIGNE (FLORIO, 1603). — MY BOOKS. — THE SOULS OF BOOKS. — DE LIBRIS. — EX LIBRIS. — ON AN INSCRIPTION. — TO MY BOOKS. — 'DESULTORY READING.' — THE BOOKWORM. — AMONG MY BOOKS. — A RUINED LIBRARY. — MY BOOKS. — TO MY BOOKS ON PARTING WITH THEM. — AMONG MY BOOKS. — THE LIBRARY. — IN THE LIBRARY. — THE BOOK-HUNTER. — THE LIBRARY. — PICTURE-BOOKS IN WINTER. — COMPANIONS. — THE BOOK OF LIFE. — ON CERTAIN BOOKS. — TO HIS BOOKS. — LITERATURE AND NATURE. — THE LIBRARY. — THE COUNTRY SQUIRE. — OLD BOOKS.
- 7.Appendix — THE LIBRARY.
- 8.A Final Word. — THE COLLECTOR TO HIS LIBRARY. — Footnotes:
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