Which volumes of HoME would you recommend?

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Originally Posted by William Cloud Hicklin

...CT has not nor ever intended to make any significant amount of money on what was simply a labor of devotion and scholarly interest. If he really wanted to coin his father into gold there were much, much, easier, sleazier and more lucrative things he could have done!

True enough. Like I said, my first thought was that the thirteen (!) books was an attempt to make as much money as possible. Then, after browsing the books, I quickly realised that they certainly aren't put together in a format which suggests that profit is a high priority.