Excerpt from Illustrated Catalog to an Exhibition of Drawings by Old Masters Why is it, that with the exception of one great collector, whose love for things great and beautiful covered all grounds, the American Collector at large has so far refrained from devoting his attention to a field, which for the connoisseur of highest art offers the greatest delight and also the greatest opportunities? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.