Group of four volumes on the history, collecting, appreciation of books, including a presentation copy with tipped-in letter from Charles F. Richardson to American literary critic E. C. Stedman; varying Good-Very Good condition: 1. GOSSE, EDMUND. Gossip in a Library. New York: Lovell, Coryell & Company, 1891. First American edition. 2.-3. NEWTON, A. EDWARD. A Tourist in Spite of Himself. Illustrations by Gluyas Williams. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1930. Third edition. And, A Magnificent Farce and Other Diversions of a Book-Collector. Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1921. Third impression. 4. RICHARDSON, CHARLES E. The Choice of Books. London: Sampson, Lowe, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1881. Signed with presentation inscription from the author to literary critic E. C. Stedman, and a tipped-in letter from Richardson to Stedman dated 1881. Richardson tells Stedman that he is now "the American literary critic." Stedman's bookplate on pastedown.