The Curio

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Excerpt from The Curio: An Illustrated Monthly MagazineWhen the Astors collect real~estate deeds and mortgages, when Jay Gould collects shares and bonds. When some men collect wives (as that Langford who was sentenced to seven years' transportation for marrying just as many maidens), when some women collect husbands (as that lady in Haarlem who, in been married to her twenty-fifth husband. And being a widow again, was prohibited to marry in the future. No one seems to attribute such peculiarities to that same human bias that leads others to collect books, or pictures. Or china or bugs, when. After all. These are but the rather commonplace forms of the collecting mania.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.