Catalogue of the Private Library of Samuel Gardner Drake, A. M
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Excerpt from Catalogue of the Private Library of Samuel Gardner Drake, A. M : To Be Sold by Auction at the Salesroom of Leonard Co;, 50 Bromfield Street, Boston, on Tuesday, May 2, 1876, and on Subsequent Days "That place that does contain My Books, the beat companions, is to me A glorious court, where hourly I converse With the old sages and philosophers." - Fletcher. The library which is here offered to the public is that of the late Samuel Gardner Drake, of Boston, who died June 14th, 1875. It was his wish that it might become the property of some institution, and thus attest the care he had bestowed in forming and perfecting it. Mr. Drake began business in Boston, as a bookseller, in 1828, and, except about a year and a half passed in Europe, continued to be identified with that business until the day of his last illness. There is, in his library, an antiquated and much used duodecimo having the following memorandum written on a fly-leaf: "Bought in 1828. In 1830 the first Antiquarian Book-store was established by me in Cornhill, and the letters on my sign were fashioned from those in this book." He affixed this sign in Cornhill, where for nearly a quarter of a century it was familiar to the passer-by as first to announce the establishment of an antiquarian book-store in the United States. The "Antiquarian Book-store" became the resort of men who made the literature of that day, and in not a few instances for all time. Of this company, Bancroft, Prescott, Hildreth, Sparks, and Hillard, Revs. Wm. Jenks, Thad. M. Harris, Starr King, and E. H. Chapin, Edward Everett, O. A. Brownson, J. T. Buckingham, W. J. Snelling, Geo. Lunt, and Nathan Hale, are best remembered. Macdonald Clarke and Peter Force were always to be found there when in Boston. Brownson occupied himself in ferreting among theological tomes; and O. W. Holmes, then a student of medicine, in searching for books on the healing art. Good Dr. Jenks, whose smile was a benediction, and whose black small-clothes were the latest seen in Boston, was an almost daily visitor. Time and occasion do not permit the further indulgence of memories awakened from long slumber at mention of these names. 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.
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