Not only the autograph collector but all those who find any interest in autographs will enjoy this book. And to those will be added many who are anxious to find out all they can of the peculiar traits of great men and also the various means used in obtaining autographs. Mr. Hill has gathered into this volume a great number of facts concerning men and letters hitherto unpublished. Many of these are of men well known and often written about, but many are names not familiar to the great reading public, proof of the fact that ...
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Not only the autograph collector but all those who find any interest in autographs will enjoy this book. And to those will be added many who are anxious to find out all they can of the peculiar traits of great men and also the various means used in obtaining autographs. Mr. Hill has gathered into this volume a great number of facts concerning men and letters hitherto unpublished. Many of these are of men well known and often written about, but many are names not familiar to the great reading public, proof of the fact that he has been an unusually successful collector of autographs, as he writes mainly of those from whom he had obtained those favors. Among his collection he has the autographs of but two Americans, one is that of George Washington and the other that of William Lloyd Garrison, but we find those that others have given very attractive and particularly the fac simile ones. Mr. Hill has various ways to suggest in order to approach without offense the noted individual whose hand writing is prized. He suggests enclosing a five-dollar bill or a barrel of oysters-anything substantial which might naturally expect an acknowledgment," He trusts that, when the reader lays aside his book, he will say with Dr. Johnson, "Sir, we had a good talk," and we should judge that his hopes will be realized. There are some fine illustrations, and the binding and general character of the book are superb and in every way artistic. -- The Lutheran Quarterly , Volume 27
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1896. T. Fisher Unwin. Hard Cover. Book-VG, t.e.g., gilt titles on front board & spine, blue boards. 9.5x6.5. 191pp. Tissue-guarded frontis, 26 b/w plates.
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None. Good. An interesting tome on the practise of collecting autographs, by this English man of letters. He opens the book with an anecdote about the poet Longfellow, who recorded in his diary: "March 23, 1854. A snowstorm. Write and send off twenty-four autographs. "November 25th, 1856. I have lying on my table more than sixty requests for autographs. "January 9th, 1857. Yesterday, I wrote, sealed, and directed seventy autographs. Today I added five or six more, and mailed them." There follows the different attitudes of both the famous and of those seeking their signatures. Hill discusses how best to ask for an autograph, and the various peculiarities of various historical personages in their approach to the subject. With many plates of portraits, and facsimiles of autographs, of the various figures discussed. Perhaps an apposite comment on the emerging modern world at the end of the 19th century. In the original cloth. Externally somewhat worn, particularly around the head of the spine. The text block is untrimmed and the foredge is a little dusty as a result. The frontispiece has come loose from the binding. Clean and bright throughout, with the binding loosening in places. Good.
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Good. First American edition. Green cloth with paper label on spine. Hinges cracked, preliminary pages loose and laid in, spine coming loose, label on spine worn, thus good only.
