Excerpt from A Text-Book of Wood Let me therefore commence by acknowledging my indebtedness to other authors, of whom there are some that I have consulted, about 300 being those on whom I have drawn. I am a compiler, and I am not ashamed of the name, albeit it is often thrown carelessly at a writer who, if only for his immoderate pains and extraordinary studies, deserves his hire. In my case I claim especial tenderness from the critics, inasmuch as I have travelled much on the Continent to con sult books in obscure and ...
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Excerpt from A Text-Book of Wood Let me therefore commence by acknowledging my indebtedness to other authors, of whom there are some that I have consulted, about 300 being those on whom I have drawn. I am a compiler, and I am not ashamed of the name, albeit it is often thrown carelessly at a writer who, if only for his immoderate pains and extraordinary studies, deserves his hire. In my case I claim especial tenderness from the critics, inasmuch as I have travelled much on the Continent to con sult books in obscure and remote libraries and to see specimens in Museums. In saving them this trouble and in sifting many a heap of millet-seed in which there was after all, no pearl, I have done the English reader good service. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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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