Collecting as a Pastime

Transcriber’s Notes:
Bronze Statuette for Gas. Circa 1850 .
Plate I.
COLLECTING AS A PASTIME
CHARLES ROWED
With 68 Half-tone Illustrations
CASSELL AND COMPANY, LTD London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne 1920
TO THE MEMORY OF C. H. R.
This book is written, and the illustrations prepared, mainly to inspire, inform and amuse Amateur Collectors. In this I trust it will be successful, but I further hope that it may arrest the attention and stimulate the interest of many other readers.
The Author.

COLLECTING AS A PASTIME