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Excerpt from Bibliographical Society of America, Vol. 3: Proceeding and Papers; 1908 Looked on as a sport manuscript hunting is thus prince among book sports. But, while it is indeed a sport, it is more than a sport; it is on the one hand a useful art to be compared with fur hunting or hunting for food, and on the other hand it bears the same relation to science that the hunting for rare orchids or rare birds and beasts does to natural science. As a sport manuscript hunting belongs chiefly to the amateur, as a useful art chiefly to the bookseller and as a handmaid to science chiefly to the scholar, but the librarian knows something of the pleasures of each; the joy of bag ging a specimen perfect as to vellum, handwriting and orna ment, the keen delight in drawing a prize in the lottery of the market and the exquisite satisfaction of finding that a given ms. Reinforces a weak group or forms a new one among the wide spreading branches of his genealogical tree. 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.