Original publication: Sinclair, David. "The Forbes Collection – Collecting Habits and the Personal Library." Renaissance and Reformation 5 (2): 2010. 13-16. DOI: 10.33137/rr.v5i2.14036. This material has been re-published in an unmodified form on the Canadian HSS Commons with the permission of Iter Canada / Renaissance and Reformation. Copyright © the author(s). Their work is distributed by Renaissance and Reformation under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. For details, see https://creativecommons.org/licenses/.