Collector's Luck

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Excerpt from Collector's Luck: Or a Repository of Pleasant and Profitable Discourses Descriptive of the Household Furniture and Ornaments of Olden Time I want to write another dedication as well: to times past and gone, to the men and women who lived then, and to these old things that are the tangible, present symbols of their faraway lives. Do you know, I often find collectors learning history from a little, personal angle that more academic scholars often-times overlook. How else could I have known with such happiness my adored Horace Walpole or gossiping Pepys? Margaret Winthrop and Eliza Pinckney stretch sisterly hands across the years to me, and I count among my intimates Judge Samuel Sewall and worthy Cotton Mather. For, if you collect the right way, - and there is but one right way, you cannot help absorbing the politics and art and religion of your chosen period. Collecting is n't just a fad, it is n't even just a "divine madness": properly interpreted, it is a liberal education. And so to these old days and ways that have been my kindest guides, and to the readers who have walked with me awhile in this pleasant pays bleu, I rededicate "Collector's Luck." 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.