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Barry, Rebecca Rego. Rare Books Uncovered: True Stories of Fantastic Finds in Unlikely Places. Minneapolis: Voyageur Press, 2015.
 

Benjamin, Walter. “Unpacking my Library: A Talk about Book Collecting.” Illuminations. New York: Schocken Books, 2015. 
 

Ciro, Jennifer. “Country House Libraries in the Nineteenth Century.” Library History, vol. 18, no. 2, Jul. 2002. pp. 89–98.
 

Connell, Philip. “Bibliomania: Book Collecting, Cultural Politics, and the Rise of Literary Heritage in Romantic Britain.” Representations, University of California Press. no. 71, 2000. pp. 24–47. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2902924. 
 

Devers, A.N. "Beyond Brontë: The Essential Act of Collecting Books by Women." Magnificent Obsessions: Why We Collect, Smithsonian Libraries, 5 Sep. 2019, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC.
 

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