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Excerpt from Catalogue of the Valuable Private Library of the Late Charles Deane, LL. D., Historian, Vice-President of the Massachusetts Historical Society, and Member of Many Other Historical Societies: Comprising a Fine Collection of Rare Americana, Including Early Voyages and Discoveries Effie/[s case. Z'ills must be paid before delivery of goods, on orders by mail upon receipt of goods no credit git/en under any circumstances. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The fascinating history of American bookishness as told through the sale of Charles Lamb’s library in 1848 Charles Lamb’s library—a heap of sixty scruffy old books singed with smoke, soaked with gin, sprinkled with crumbs, stripped of illustrations, and bescribbled by the essayist and his literary friends—caused a sensation when it was sold in New York in 1848. The transatlantic book world watched as the relics of a man revered as the patron saint of book collectors were dispersed. Following those books through the stories of the bibliophiles who shaped intellectual life in America—booksellers, publishers, journalists, editors, bibliographers, librarians, actors, antiquarians, philanthropists, politicians, poets, clergymen—Denise Gigante brings to life a lost world of letters at a time when Americans were busy assembling the country’s major public, university, and society libraries. A human tale of loss, obsession, and spiritual survival, this book reveals the magical power books can have to bring people together and will be an absorbing read for anyone interested in what makes a book special.
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Excerpt from Charles Deane, LL. D: Vice-President Massachusetts Historical Society, a Memoir In February, 1865, just after he had retired from business and when he was fifty-two years old, Mr, Deane wrote a brief sketch of the earlier part of his life, and brought the narrative down to a time when he had already formed those acquaintances which caused a good part of the enjoyments attending his less active but riper years. With this acquaintance broadening year by year and bringing within his sympathies and interests many of the foremost historical scholars of his day, he began to cultivate habits already formed of epistolary intercourse; and as his fame as an exact student of American history grew, he was more and more sought for his opinions and counsel on historical questions. This as well as his friendships fostered a taste for correspondence; and the large mass of letters, full of discussion and inquiry concerning points and phases of our history, which he left behind him, would afford matter for an interesting biography far more extensive than it is customary to insert in the Proceedings of our Society. To round out the proportions of this life, so richly endowed in all that interests the lover of American history, one would have also to go through his abundant and extraordinary library of nearly thirteen thousand volumes to find the minutes of his researches which he scattered so plentifully on fly-leaves and margins, and to discover the letters, memoranda, and scraps which he had laid between the leaves of his books. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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