The Fascination of Books (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

This 1912 collection of essays on books and bookselling includes “The Christmas Book,” “Bookselling and Some of its Humours,” “Early Victorian Bookselling,” “Some Old Libraries,” “The Revolution in Educational Literature,” “The Evolution of the Bookseller,” “Nineteenth Century Book Distributing,” “Publishing,” “Booksellers’ Trade Dinner Sales,” “The Use and Abuse of Book Titles,” and more.