Transcriber’s Note
The cover image was created by Thiers Halliwell and is placed in the public domain.
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THE
COLLECTOR’S WHATNOT
REAR VIEW OF THE STATUE OF PROFESSOR KILGALLEN IN FLORAL PARK CITY, FLORIDA
Note the manner in which the sculptress denotes motion and vibration by the addition of the stump, which expresses with one bold stroke the action of the subject in rising from meditation. Visitors to Floral Park City are advised to walk all around the statue in order to get these different expressions of mood.
THE
COLLECTOR’S WHATNOT
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
