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Excerpt from Private Libraries of Providence: With a Preliminary Essay on the Love of Books Two or three years ago I wrote for a local newspaper a series of sketches ofsome of the private libraries of Providence. These sketches, due in some degree, perhaps, to their having been copied into The American Bibliopolist, attracted so much attention here and elsewhere, that I have consented to collect them and to permit a limited edition to be published in book form. During leisure moments all have been rewritten, several have been added, and an essay on the Love of Books included in the hope of contributing to the interest of the volume. The sketches are merely suggestive, and are only intended to enable thereader to form a fairly accurate notion of the character and extent of the libraries described. It must not be inferred that all the works named in the different articles are, for that reason, supposed to be rare, or even scarce. That would be a gross misapprehension. 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.