Collectors An Address Read to the Club of Odd Volumes At Its Annual Meeting Bo
Collectors An Address Read to the Club of Odd Volumes At Its Annual Meeting Bo
Hunnewell, James Frothingham, 1832-1910
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It seems as if there must have been many books, and yet by appraisal Oct. 29, following, the valuation is so small that it could only be one of a fraction of the entire collection. I am still without conclusive evidence that it was burned in Charlestown, but I feel sadly sure that the greatest example of early American collecting ended in dismal wreck. [20] COLLECTORS After the Eevolution the most distin- guished of all Americans was, to a consider- able extent, a collector. George Washington f...ormed and left a library of nine hundred volumes. Its history is also curious. It, also, ceased to be a family library, and not very long after his death was dispersed, but happily few of its parts have been lost. By far the largest number of the volumes now together is thanks to Boston intelli- gence and money now here in the Boston Athenaeum, some 354 volumes and several hundred unbound pamphlets. During the Nineteenth Century, espe- cially the latter two-thirds, collectors in our country became numerous, active, and successful.
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