Book collecting
![Some inexpensive collectible books: these are, left to right, by Tyndall, Collingwood, H. M. Field, Bryce, Woolf, and Asimov](/Images/godic/202412/24/Book_collection0550.jpg")
![Title page of Colman's The Comedies of Terence, 1765](/Images/godic/202412/24/Colman_Terence_title_page0550.jpg")
![The beginning of Paradise Lost from a 1720 illustrated edition. Not a first edition but desirable among antiquarians.](/Images/godic/202412/24/ParadiseLost1720Ed0550.jpg")
Book collecting is the collecting of books, including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever books are of interest to a given individual collector. The love of books is bibliophilia, and someone who loves to read, admire, and collect books is a bibliophile.