A growing collection of books on line that have proved interesting or useful. Most of them are on Google Books, which is very good at finding information in books but very bad at finding any specific book.

As the collection grows, we find ourselves in need of a system of organization. We have rather brashly invented one of our own. The Library of Congress system is cumbersome for a small and somewhat specialized collection, and the Dewey Decimal System is proprietary and actively protected. One advantage of an electronic collection is that an item does not have a physical location, so books that fit more than one category will be found in more than one place.

If you have an Android tablet or an iPad, the Google Books app will allow you to make your favorite books available off line, with the ability to search in scanned books.


Bookshelves in the Library


Classics
Classical Authors

Classical Studies

Medieval
Arthurian History and Romance

From Caxton's Press; From Wynkyn de Worde's Press

Reynard the Fox

Essays and Philosophy
Essays

Religion
Church Fathers and Sources for Ecclesiastical History

Literature
Literary Criticism

Poetry
American Poets

English Poets
Fiction
Fiction Miscellanies

American Novelists

English Novelists

Novels in Translation or in Other Languages

Drama
English and American Dramatists

Humor & Satire

History
Ancient History
Ancient Near East

Europe
British History

Byzantine Empire

North America
American History
Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania

Fashions of Various Eras

Pamphlets, Broadsheets, etc.

Geography
Travel

Science
Botanical References

Quackery and Pseudoscience

Technical and Instructional

Law

Language
Useful References

Writing & Printing
Penmanship

Printing
Printing History

Printing Technique

Typography

Ornaments gathered from various books

Unclassifiable Oddities


Magazines