George Latimer Apperson
Published: 2015-06-30
Total Pages: 246
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Excerpt from Gleanings After Time: Chapters in Social and Domestic History In all magazines and periodical publications, amid much that is ephemeral and necessarily of but momentary interest, there are always articles which are of more or less permanent value. Yet, unless they are separately collected by their authors, such contributions are lost and buried for ever in the bound volumes of the magazine in which they appeared; and a set of magazine volumes is one of the least often disturbed of literary cemeteries. If this be true of contributions to the ordinary run of magazines, it is still more true of articles in specialized and quasi-scientific periodicals. During the more than a quarter of a century of The Antiquary's existence a very large number of papers of much more than passing or "topical" interest have appeared in the pages of its forty odd volumes. A few of these have been collected by their writers, but the bulk of them - especially those in the earlier volumes of the magazine - are not now so easily accessible as they deserve to be. It has been thought well, therefore, to collect, chiefly from the earlier volumes of The Antiquary, some of these papers, which, on account of their interest or permanent value, deserve to be preserved in a convenient and handy form. The importance of classification has been kept in view, and the present volume contains a selection of articles which may fairly be grouped under the heading of "Social History." Other volumes may follow under other headings. 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.