Book Description
Excerpt from Among My Autographs There are no half-hours in my library so pleasant as those in which I go to the bookshelves that hold my little collection of first or early editions, the value of most of them enhanced for me by the autograph of the author, which I have been able to insert in the prized volume. To embellish a good book with the letter of the man who gave it to the world has been a delight of mine from my youth upwards. The hand that wrote the lines I read has been cold in the grave this many a year, but the words on the faded note-paper are still as the master penned them, and often they give a truer index to the man than all he wrote for print and reread and corrected as he passed it for press. Even where no clue to character is contained in the author's letter, there are little everyday details and incidents which reveal in a few lines more than all the pages of the professional biographer. 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.
