Excerpt from A Catalogue of the Library Formed by Edward Arnold Part from the necessity, for many reasons, of having a catalogue of my father's library, just as my sister and I had a catalogue of his French furniture (so ably compiled by Mr. Frank Rutter), it has also been made as a souvenir of the happy hours we spent together looking at the books he loved so much. Tell me, says a Spanish proverb, what books a man reads, and I will tell you what he is and a perusal of the catalogue shows and reflects, more truly. His exquisite and refined taste and foresight, than anything I can write. My father always preferred quality to quantity, and therefore it is not what the world would call a large library. 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.