Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Fan Book
To the collector fans Offer a very wide field, and the subject is one round which much romance and history has centred. Since summer first was leafy man has instinctively reached for a branch of a tree or a large leaf to dispel the heated air and ward Off flies, and early in the stages Of dawning civiliza tion, even among quite primitive peoples, has come the practice of elaborating and making more permanent these simple fans placed ready by Nature. 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.
