Elzevirs, with the Latinized appellations of youthful progenitors, and Hic liber est meus on the title-page.

A set of Hogarth's original plates.

Pope, original edition, 15 volumes, London, 1717.

Barrow on the lower shelves, in folio.
Tillotson on the upper, in a little dark platoon of octo-decimos.
Some family silver; a string of wedding and funeral rings; the arms of the family curiously blazoned; the same in worsted, by a maiden aunt.
If the man of family has an old place to keep these things in, furnished with claw-footed chairs and black mahogany tables, and tall bevel-edged mirrors, and stately upright cabinets, his outfit is complete.
No, my friends, I go (always, other things being equal) for the man who inherits family traditions and the cumulative humanities of at least four or five generations.

Above all things, as a child, he should have tumbled about in a library.