Lanterna Rally

Author: Annmary Brown Memorial

Publisher:

Published: 2015-08-04

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9781332110063

Excerpt from Catalogue of Books Mostly From the Presses of the First Printers Showing the Progress of Printing With Movable Metal Types Through the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century Probably the most universal of all acquired habits is the habit of owning books, which, in many instances, is closely allied with book-collecting, so that often without knowing it the book-owner becomes a habitual collector, not in the usual acceptation of that term, which so frequently implies a fad or the desire of notoriety, but in the sense of gradually bringing together books relating to subjects in which the collector happens to be interested. These are the collectors who form libraries for some useful purpose rather than for the sake of mere ownership, or, in other words, to augment their pride in the possession of objects of such commanding market value as to be beyond the financial capacity of any one but the millionaire. Libraries made for some personal or practical purpose sometimes develop into collections of general importance, which ultimately find their way into institutions open to the public. The present collection belongs to neither class; it is the result of a book-buying habit that began in 1838, when its victim was about seven years old, and has continued with rarely an intermission for seventy-one years. My formal education, as with all New England children of my time, began with the district school. What I learnt there was of no real importance from my then viewpoint; i.e., when I compared it with the stories of the Indian, Colonial and Revolutionary wars told to me of an evening by a great-grandmother who was born in 1759. These accounts of midnight forays and slaughters, often told in the dancing light of an open fireplace wood fire with rare dramatic effect, excited heroic emotions which were more active than useful in their effect upon the daily routine study. Unfortunately, perhaps, they planted ever spreading roots in a fruitful soil. For never was a boy more easily lifted to the upper heroic level than the snow-bound lad who so often those long winter evenings listened to the blood-curdling experiences of the early settlers of his native country. 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.