Excerpt from The Great Folk of Old Marylebone The greatest compliment a preface can receive is to be ignored when the reader first takes up the book, and to be read when it is finished. The obvious inference is that the book has been found so interesting that even so dull a thing as a preface can be tolerated in its name. I do not hope that these few lines will receive such honourable treatment: they will probably not be read at all. But in case a reader more laboriously inclined than others should give time to their perusal he will find them less of a preface than a kind of apologia: a kind of polite excuse after the event. 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.