A Book About Autographs (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Book About Autographs

Other books, such as Mr. Adrien H. Joline's very entertaining Meditations Of an Autograph Collector and Rambles in Autograph Land, consist mainly Of the text Of letters in his collection, which serve as a basis for the expression Of thoughts, Observations, and comments, sometimes profound, sometimes humorousor sarcastic, but always interesting and frequently in structive. The same comment is true, though in a much smaller degree, of the little book written by Mr. George R. Sims, entitled Among My Autographs. These books have, therefore, a character that is literary, and distinctly different from the practical treatment Of the subject which is intended to be followed in this volume.

From all available sources the writer has tried to gather whatever will help to give collectors something approaching an adequate knowledge of the taste for collecting autographs, and its progress from small be ginnings to the prominence it has now attained. In the belief that a portion Of the subject which has hither to been neglected should receive proper consideration, much Space is given to a detailed account Of a number Of the leading collections that have, in years past, made their appearance at public sales after the death of their owners.

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