Excerpt from Catalogue of the John Adams Library: In the Public Library of the City of Boston Many volumes contain the book - plates of John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and Charles Francis Adams, the Elder. These book-plates of the son and grandson of John Adams are evidence that they, and doubtless later members of the Adams family, added to the collection as it originally stood in 1823. At that time the number of volumes was 2756. In 1883, the number was 2804, and at present in 1917, the total enumeration is 3019. 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.