DesignObserver's put together a great book/slideshow/Flickr group of beautiful table of contents pages from various books:
In this book, we have gathered together thirty Table of Contents pages from our personal collections. On the surface, the selection may elude standard organizational conceits: why a design collection that also includes poetry and fiction? Why Philip Larkin and not Billy Collins, Ayn Rand and not Philip Roth, Paul Rand and not Jan Tschichold? Like "next" itself, there's no intentional logic or over-arching plan: we just found these examples engaging, the discrepancies between them even more so.Some readers will appreciate their typographic form, while others will see further strategies at work – informational, strategic, philosophical, literary. There are odd, even anachronistic cultural references, gestures that date these books in a manner oddly soothing. They remind us that what we will be has, by its very nature, a great deal to do with where we've been – and that there is no future without a past.
(via Kottke)
