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Excerpt from Report of a Conversazione, Vol. 15: Given at Willis's Rooms, King Street, St. James's, on Tuesday, June 8th, 1886
I propose, therefore, to give a very brief sketch, a mere bird's-eye view, of the social and printing Society called the Sette of Odd Volumes, to state the circumstances under which the Librarian's Discourse and its ac companying illustrative Exhibition of books originated, and to add some-short notice of the Conversazz'ofle at which the Address was delivered. 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.