Dickens, Charles. Martin Chuzzlewit (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1951) 841 p.

Tom Pinch (p. 605-617) is mysteriously and anonymously given a job cataloging a private library.

In the meantime Tom attended to his duties daily, and made considerable progress with the books: which were already reduced to some sort of order, and made a great appearance in his fairly-written catalogue. During his business hours, he indulged himself occasionally with snatches of reading; which were often, indeed, a necessary part of his pursuit; and as he usually made bold to carry one of these goblin volumes home at night (always bringing it back again next morning, in case his strange employer should appear and ask what had become of it), he led a happy, quiet, studious kind of life, after his own heart. (p. 619).