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Nineteenth century oil painting of a man on a step-ladder selecting and reading books from a tall bookcase. — "The Bookworm" by Carl Spitzweg

General

On Books and Reading, by Arthur Schopenhauer, translated by Thomas Bailey Saunders
On Books and the Housing of Them, 1898 by William Ewart Gladstone
The First Writing-machines, by Mark Twain

Fiction

The Battle of the Books
- The Battle of the Books, 1886 by Jonathan Swift
- Battle of the Books, 1908 by Jonathan Swift
The End of Books, 1894 by Octave Uzanne

Verse

My books I'd fain cast off, by Henry David Thoreau
Unto my Books — so good to turn —, by Emily Dickinson
Books for the people, 1848 by Anne Lynch Botta
My Books, 1882 by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Reference works

"Book," in Domestic Encyclopædia, by A. F. M. Willich, London: (1802)
"Book," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
"Book," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
"Book," by Alfred William Pollard in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
"Book," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
"Book," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)