The Book-Hunter at Home

This is a book about books for book collectors. It delves into some of the different genres of books and gives instructions on keeping a collection of books at home. It also discusses how to take care of books. This book also reveals what books were like in the past and shows how the people of the time felt about the various subject matter of their books. Excerpt from The Book-Hunter at Home Madam, It would be churlish indeed were I to send this book into the world without some acknowledgment of the share which you have had in its making. Indeed, I feel that you are chiefly responsible for it: without your encouragement, your active help, your patience with me at all times (at which I marvel constantly), it would never have arrived at completion. Truly it is your name, not mine, that should appear upon the title-page; for although mine may have been the hand that penned the words, certain it is that yours was the mind that guided my pen throughout. CHAP PAGE I. ADVENTURES AMONG BOOKS 1 II. THE LIBRARY 31 III. BOOKS WHICH FORM THE LIBRARY 58 IV. CHIVALRY AND ROMANCE 84 V. THE CARE OF BOOKS 106 VI. THE CARE OF BOOKS (Continued) 126 VII. BOOKS OF THE COLLECTOR 160 VIII. A PLEA FOR SPECIALISM 194 IX. A PLEA FOR SPECIALISM THE BOOK-HUNTER AT HOME frontispiece THE PERON page 96 THE HALL OF THE KNIGHTS " 104 THE HOME-MADE LIBRARY " 128