Book Plates Old And New Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Book-Plates, Old and New The dealer had opened wide one of the closest written pages of French history. That old book-plate had evidently been as full of danger to the scion of the noble house, as a white cockade, and he had wisely covered it with the Phrygian cap of liberty. 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.