Front matter
Reading edition
Of this Book only One Hundred and Fifty Copies were privately printed for the Author, on Arnold's Unbleached Handmade Paper, in the month of January 1896—of which this is
No. 25
Chats in the Book-room
By Horace N. Pym Editor of Caroline Fox's Journals; A Mother's Memoir; A Tour Round my Book-shelves, etc. etc.
With Portrait by MOLLY EVANS, and Two Photogravures of the Book-room
"If any one, whom you do not know, relates strange stories, be not too ready to believe or report them, and yet (unless he is one of your familiar acquaintances) be not too forward to contradict him."—Sir Matthew Hale.
Privately Printed for the Author in the Year 1896 by Ballantyne, Hanson & Co.
To My Dearly Loved Son Julian Tindale Pym I dedicate these "Chats in the Book-room," to which I ask him to extend that noble "Patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill," which gilds and elevates his life.
H. N. P.
Christmas, Foxwold Chase, 1895.
