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General
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- "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)