THE COLLECTOR’S WHATNOT
Reading edition
A Compendium, Manual, and Syllabus of Information and Advice on all Subjects Appertaining to the Collection of Antiques, both Ancient and not so Ancient
Compiled by Cornelius Obenchain Van Loot, Milton Kilgallen and Murgatroyd Elphinstone
Boston and New York
Houghton Mifflin Company
The Riverside Press Cambridge
COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
The First Edition of The Collector’s Whatnot consists of 3127 copies, as follows:
Twenty-seven on choicest domestic leaf, bound in teakwood, with leather hinges, numbered A to &, with the Authors’ thumb-prints in red ink in each copy.
Three thousand one hundred copies on American antique wove, bound in manila boards.
The Second Edition consists of one thousand pure and pink copies, bound to sell.
The Riverside Press
CAMBRIDGE · MASSACHUSETTS PRINTED IN THE U.S.A.
To
The Resigned Husbands and Wives of
All True Collectors
This Book
is most feelingly
DEDICATED
