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 THE LIBRARY 
 
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 THE UNIVERSITY 
 OF CALIFORNIA 
 
 LOS ANGELES
 
 NATHANIEL PAINE.
 
 THE 
 
 LIBRARY 
 
 OF 
 
 NATHANIEL PAINE. 
 
 BY S. W. WEBB. 
 
 FBOM THE WOBCE8TEB HOMK JOUBNAL. 
 
 WORCESTER, MASS. 
 1885.
 
 "And books we know 
 
 As a substantial world, both pure and good; 
 Round these with tendrils strong as flesh and 
 
 blood, 
 Our pastime and our happiness will grow." 
 
 IN these days of fine public libraries, 
 easily accessible, the interest in gather- 
 ing together a large private library 
 has somewhat abated. In these public 
 libraries are books covering the whole 
 field of literature from books of scholar- 
 ly research to the latest novel. Very 
 naturally therefore one asks himself, 
 why go to the expense of getting a fine 
 private library, when one has free ac- 
 cess to all the books of our public libra- 
 ries ? But while the public library fills a 
 place, and a very large one, in the com- 
 munity, it can never take the place 
 wholly of the private library. For, not 
 only does one wish certain useful books 
 always ready to his hand, but every real 
 lover of books has certain indiosyncra- 
 sies, or favorite lines of study which de-
 
 termine the kind of books which he de- 
 lights to have about him, so that he gets 
 hold of many books not to be found in 
 any general library. Indeed, many of 
 the books- in private libraries can not be 
 found in any other library, public or 
 private, having been so modified and ex- 
 tended by the introduction of illustra- 
 tions, and various addenda, as to be quite 
 unlike the original work. And then, 
 too, many of the most valuable works in 
 many private libraries are largely the 
 work of the owner, the matter having 
 been compiled by him from various 
 sources, and bound together in one 
 volume. 
 
 The private library of Nathaniel Paine, 
 Esq., of this city, is made up to quite a 
 large extent of this kind of books. It 
 numbers some 2000 volumes, and is ex- 
 ceedingly rich in historical and biograph- 
 ical works. The value and interest of 
 many of the books have been largely in- 
 creased by additions he has made to 
 them of portraits, autographs, letters, 
 and other valuable material illustrative 
 of the subjects treated. The scholarly 
 tastes of Mr. Paine are well known. 
 He is a prominent member not only of 
 the American Antiquarian Society, but of 
 the Worcester Society of Antiquity, and
 
 is the author of a number of volumes 
 which are a material addition to the value 
 of the libraries of both societies. 
 
 Mr. Paine's library is of a miscellane- 
 ous nature, though historical and bio- 
 graphical works seem to be favorites. 
 He has also gathered together a large 
 number of autographs and has already 
 had two sales of books, portraits, auto- 
 graphs, engravings and such like. The 
 last one, held in New York some seven 
 years ago, consisted largely of auto- 
 graphs and engraved portraits, and he has 
 many still remaining. He began the for- 
 mation of his library when a young man, 
 and has added to it as he has had opportu- 
 nity ever since. Some of the autographs 
 and letters of distinguished men were 
 given him, others were bought, and still 
 others obtained by exchange. The rage 
 for these has so increased within the last 
 few years that many of them are now ex- 
 ceedingly rare, and correspondingly val- 
 uable. Mr. Paine comes naturally by 
 his love for the antique and historic, his 
 grandfather and great uncle being among 
 the founders of the American Antiqua- 
 rian Society. 
 
 One of the most interesting and valua- 
 ble works of Mr. Paine's collection is 
 Irving' s Life of Washington. This edi-
 
 tion was published in five volumes, and 
 110 copies only of the edition were print- 
 ed. These five volumes have been extend- 
 ed to ten by the addition of portraits of 
 distinguished men, American and English, 
 of Washington's time, pictures of battles, 
 autographs, original letters, etc., includ- 
 ing 60 or 70 portraits of Washington. 
 Also a representation of the Boston Mas- 
 sacre engraved by Paul Revere and sold 
 by him; this engraving which repre- 
 sents the British soldiers in their red coats 
 is very rare. Mr. Paine has also insert- 
 ed in the volumes a large number of au- 
 tographs and manuscript letters. Among 
 them is a letter of Gen. Washington 
 the authenticity of which is attested by 
 Jared Sparks on the reverse side; auto- 
 graph of George II. ; autograph letters of 
 Gov. Shirley, Benjamin Franklin, and of 
 Lord Amherst; also autographs of Lord 
 North, of George IV., of Patrick Henry, 
 of Gov. Bernard, and Gen. Stark; indeed, 
 the volumes contain nearly all the auto- 
 graphs of the prominent American gen- 
 erals and officers of the Revolutionary 
 war. The volumes are substantially 
 bound in half morocco. Mr. Paine has 
 nearly completed an additional volume 
 which will be enriched with illustrations 
 of badges, steel portraits, and with news-
 
 paper cuttings of an historical and a bio- 
 graphical nature. 
 
 Another work in which we were 
 greatly interested was two volumes 
 entitled Autographs and Portraits of the 
 Signers of the Declaration of Independ- 
 ence. The contents of the volumes are 
 divided into an Historical Monograph; 
 History of the thirteenOriginal States and 
 Biographies of the Signers of the Declara- 
 tion of Independence, to which are added 
 their portraits and autographs. That 
 there may he no doubt in regard to the 
 genuineness of the autographs, Mr. 
 Paine has inserted fac-similes of them 
 with which to compare the original. He 
 has found it very difficult to get the au- 
 tographs of the Georgia signers, having 
 been able so far to secure but one of 
 them. Only eleven autographs are lack- 
 ing, however, out of the whole number, 
 and some of these he expects to obtain ; 
 the volumes are large, and hand- 
 somely bound in Turkey morocco. 
 What we have said in regard to the two 
 preceding works gives but little idea of 
 their historic interest and value. Hours 
 could be spent in looking over each one 
 without beginning to exhaust its inter- 
 est. Every autograph and letter is rich 
 in historic association, and carries one
 
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 back in imagination to the times that 
 "tried men's souls." 
 
 Mr. Paine has a way of enlarging and 
 greatly enriching his library as is seen 
 by his method with Irving' s Life of 
 Washington. Given a work whose sub- 
 ject matter is adapted to it, he extends 
 the number of volumes indefinitely by 
 binding in with the printed matter auto- 
 graph letters, portraits and various other 
 collateral matter which gives added in- 
 terest. By this method many of his 
 books are sui generis. Their exact dupli- 
 cates can not be found elsewhere in all 
 the libraries of the globe. He has car- 
 ried this same principle of enlargement 
 into a work entitled A Biographical His- 
 tory of the Fine Arts. Published origin- 
 ally in two volumes, he has extended it 
 to nine, by adding portraits of artists, 
 engravers, sculptors, architects etc. ; the 
 two volumes have about 800 portraits of 
 artists, of which only 100 were in the 
 volumes as originally published. Many 
 of the illustrations which have been 
 added in this work and in the others are 
 "inlaid," so that the illustrations and 
 leaf together are the same thickness as 
 the original leaf, thus preventing any 
 bulging from extra thickness. Each of 
 the nine volumes has an illuminated title-
 
 page of different and unique designs, 
 made by the owner. 
 
 In a small way he has carried his prin- 
 ciple into many other works. We have 
 not space to much more than merely 
 mention some of them. Gen. Devens's 
 oration at the Centennial anniversary of 
 the battle of Bunker Hill was presented 
 by the orator to Mr. Paine, only three cop- 
 ies of this particular edition having been 
 printed. Mr. Paine has finely illustra- 
 ted it with portraits of the men men- 
 tioned in the address, so that the book 
 becomes entirely unique. In the same 
 way Gen. Devens's oration at the dedica- 
 tion of the Soldiers and Sailors' Monu- 
 ment on Boston Common, three copies 
 were specially printed, one of which was 
 presented to Mr. Paine, this has also been 
 illustrated, and the original notes which 
 Gen. Devens used in the delivery of his 
 address, inserted. 
 
 Mr. Paine has carried the scrap-book 
 system to perfection. By economizing 
 his spare hours he has got together a set 
 of scrap-books of various kinds which are 
 invaluable. One of them treats of Thomas 
 Bewick and Wood Engraving, taken from 
 Harper's Magazine and the Century; 
 it receives special interest from the fact 
 that Bewick was the father of English
 
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 wood engraving. Another is the Circus 
 and Menagerie, the title-page of which 
 is finely printed by the pen and brush of 
 Mr. Paine; there are abundant illustra- 
 tions and the reading matter consists of 
 the history of the circus taken from St. 
 Nicholas and of various newspaper cut- 
 tings, the whole making a book 
 which would delight the hearts of chil- 
 dren, little and large. We also saw a 
 scrap-book relating to the book publish- 
 ers of the country; one relating to the 
 history of our local Continentals; anoth- 
 er, which was made up of clippings from 
 the local papers in the late war from 
 April 1861 to Jan. 1862, is of great 
 interest as it relates to Worcester 
 soldiers, with portraits of many of 
 them. 
 
 It is but a step from scrap-books to 
 pamphlets. In these the library is very 
 rich, the pamphlets numbering from 600 
 to 800. While those of a historical and 
 biographical character preponderate, 
 many are of a miscellaneous nature. 
 The number relating to local subjects is 
 very large. A complete set of Musical 
 Festival pamphlets may be found here, 
 moreover, the contents of each pamphlet 
 is available at once when desired. Kept 
 in cases which are carefully indexed,
 
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 Mr. Paine knows at once where to put 
 his hand on the one treating on any giv- 
 en subject. It may be added that many 
 of these pamphlets were privately 
 printed. 
 
 Books of Fables have a large place 
 here; they include those from the early 
 editions of .ZEsop to the late editions of 
 Gay, Bewick, Northcote, Dore and the 
 American editions of Stevens and others. 
 These works are profusely illustrated and 
 make one of the features of the library. 
 Especially worthy of mention in this con- 
 nection is Stockdale's edition of Robinson 
 Crusoe, 2 volumes, 1790, illustrated by 
 Strothard and bound in treecalf. There 
 are several editions of Robinson Crusoe, 
 one dating back as early as 1720. One 
 of the latest volumes added to the 
 library is a very handsome large paper 
 copy of Gulliver's Travels, just published 
 by Nimmo of London. The typograph- 
 ical appearance of the volume, and the 
 excellence of the 180 colored illustrations, 
 and the many wood-cuts, make it the 
 finest edition of this standard work yet 
 published. 
 
 Bibliomaniacs are quite generally 
 looked upon with a pity akin to con- 
 tempt. They are apt to be placed in the 
 same category with cranks. From a
 
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 purely business point of view they are in 
 the minds of many thoroughly impracti- 
 cal. Experience, however, does not 
 justify such an opinion. Indeed, it is 
 a question whether there can be found a 
 better paying investment in the long run 
 than the judicious purchase of rare and 
 valuable books. One of these biblioma- 
 niacs of Troy, N. Y., at the end of twen- 
 ty years sold his collection, and he stated 
 that it produced him more than 50 per 
 cent, of their actual cost, whereas he had 
 sold his house for less than half its cost. 
 Speaking of the fact he said, "There has 
 been more money fooled away in Troy 
 by many a man in the last twenty years, 
 in stocks and horses and clubs without a 
 cent to show for it than I put into my 
 books with $11,000 to show for them, 
 after using them all these years." Not 
 every man is qualified to buy books any 
 more than every man is qualified to 
 judge of a good horse. But he who buys 
 his books with good judgment, not only 
 has in them pleasant companions and 
 valuable resources, but has likewise a 
 safe moneyed investment. How much 
 Mr. Paine's books have cost him, we do 
 not know, but we do know that he finds 
 in them a delightful companionship, and 
 that as an investment he could probably
 
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 as a banker point out many a man walk- 
 ing the streets of Worcester whose in- 
 vestments in stocks and even real estate 
 can not begin to make so good an ex- 
 hibit as his, from a purely pecuniary 
 standpoint. 
 
 As we have stated, historical and bio- 
 graphical works are predominant. 
 There are several lives of Washington, as 
 Sparks's, Bancroft's and others; some 50 
 volumes containing eulogies of Wash- 
 ington by various writers; Lossing's Mt. 
 Vernon and its Associations with extra 
 illustrations. Among others of these 
 works are five scrap-books of Revolution- 
 ary sketches made up from magazine arti- 
 cles and illustrated ; History of the Amer- 
 ican Flag published as one volume and ex- 
 tended to two, having a fragment of the 
 flag of Fort McHenry on which was com- 
 posed the song "Star Spangled Banner;" 
 a complete set of the orations on the 
 Boston Massacre, 1771-83, very rare; lives 
 of many of the Revolutionary generals 
 with their autographs ; a large collection 
 of works relating to Lexington, Concord 
 and Bunker Hill. In one of the works 
 on Lexington is a manuscript in which 
 is set forth in detail the damages 
 sustained by a citizen of Lexington from 
 the British troops, amounting to 145
 
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 pounds English money. The document 
 is dated 1782, and among the things dam- 
 aged are five fine shirts, blue serge coat 
 and jacket, several penknives and sleeve- 
 buttons, one pound and four shillings 
 worth of rum and molasses wasted, beef 
 and cheese carried away, teapot and por- 
 angers damaged etc. The man evidently 
 kept a store, and the red-coats made 
 themselves free and easy with his stock 
 of goods. An interesting reminder of 
 the late civil war is an extra of the 
 Charleston Mercury, 1860, advocating the 
 dissolution of the union, which Mr. Paine 
 received from the south soon after it 
 was issued, and has used it as one of 
 the extra illustrations to Lossing's His- 
 tory of the Civil War. A complete set 
 of the " Proceedings" of the American 
 Antiquarian Society illustrated by many 
 portraits of members who have read 
 papers before the Society is here. Com- 
 plete sets are exceedingly difficult* to 
 obtain; probably the number of them 
 could be counted on one's fingers. We 
 noticed a complete set of the Magazine 
 of American History and also of the 
 Pennsylvania Magazine, both adding to 
 the historical treasures of the collection. 
 We should not fail to add to these the 
 first edition of Bancroft's History of the
 
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 United States, the value of which has been 
 greatly increased by the addition of vari- 
 ous portraits and views. Another curi- 
 ous book is one entitled " Antique Views 
 of the Town of Boston," a quarto volume, 
 one of the covers of which has upon the 
 outside a piece of wood taken from the 
 old elm on Boston Common, with a pic- 
 ture of the tree, and a letter from the 
 Mayor of Boston in regard to it printed 
 upon it. 
 
 We should not fail to mention the large 
 series of bibliographical works to be found 
 in the library. A thick 8vo vol. with the 
 title "Bibliographical Notes" contains 
 newspaper cuttings relating to rare and 
 curious books, private libraries, book 
 sales, early editions and bibliographical 
 matter generally. The library contains 
 also Sabin's Bibliopolist complete, and 
 several volumes relating to libraries and 
 book collecting. 
 
 Comic works are also represented in a 
 goodly number. Prominent among these 
 are two volumes made up from Thack- 
 eray's and other writers' notices of 
 Cruikshank, illustrated with a large 
 number of portraits, engravings by the 
 famous caricaturist, also a fine autograph 
 letter of Cruikshank. The works of John 
 Leach, Du Maurier and Thomas Nast
 
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 are also represented in the library. 
 The collection of the latter contains the 
 Tweed caricatures mounted on separate 
 sheets. There are also books on giants, 
 dwarfs, monstrosities, the reading mat- 
 ter of which has been culled from news- 
 papers and magazines, and illustrated, 
 making them, we venture to say, unlike 
 any other books to be found anywhere. 
 
 While Mr. Paine has not gone very 
 largely into the collection of the oldest 
 books, yet he has secured quite a number, 
 printed from one to three hundred years 
 ago. Among these may be mentioned 
 various rare almanacs, as Weatherwise's 
 1781, Stearns's Almanac 1776, giv- 
 ing an account of the battle of Lexing- 
 ton, printed by Isaiah Thomas at Wor- 
 cester, and Low's Almanac 1777, 
 containing a map of the seat of war in 
 New York; Isaiah Thomas's T/>y Books 
 of 100 years ago, with curious and crude 
 wood-cuts, and side by side with them, 
 by way of contrast, are the magnifi- 
 cent toy books of to-day, of Stevens, 
 Crane and Caldecott; several quaint 
 works of Cotton and of Increase Mather, 
 all of which are now rare ; a f ac-simile of 
 the first edition of Pilgrim's Progress; 
 fragments of a book printed in 1497 in 
 Strasbourg, having curious wood-cuts;
 
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 the first folio edition of the New Testa- 
 ment printed in Worcester and in this 
 country, by Isaiah Thomas, 1791; a large 
 number of books on the drama and act- 
 ors, many of which have extra illus- 
 trations; a number of New England 
 primers; British and American almanacs; 
 Alexander Barclay's translation of 
 Brandt's Ship of Fools, a German satire, 
 published in 1494, with fac-similes of the 
 curious wood-cuts in the edition of 1497, 
 being the Edinburgh edition of 1874, 
 bound in full treecalf. 
 
 There are a number of noteworthy 
 books of a miscellaneous nature of which 
 space compels us to give only a brief 
 notice. One is the history of wood en- 
 graving in America by W. J. Linton, 
 the eminent wood engraver, of which only 
 a limited edition was printed, to which 
 extra illustrations have been added by 
 Mr. Paine, also an autograph letter of the 
 author. The first book printed in Wor- 
 cester, containing a narrative of the battle 
 of Lexington and published by Isaiah 
 Thomas after he left Boston and came to 
 Worcester. A fine uncut copy of the 1st 
 edition of Thomas's History of Printing, 
 illustrated with portraits, autographs, 
 copies of early newspapers, etc. Arctic 
 Explorations, such as Sir Edward Belcher 
 2
 
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 and Markham among the English, and 
 Kane, Hayes, Hall, Gilder and the Jean- 
 ne tie Expeditions among the American; 
 Alden's Epitaphs, New York 1814; four 
 volumes of photographs of Madonnas 
 and Holy Families, making an interesting 
 and valuable work. Among the stan- 
 dard works in the collection may be 
 mentioned two or three editions of 
 Shakespeare; one is the scarce eight- 
 volume edition published by Philips, 
 Sampson & Co., Boston, 1850-51, long 
 since out of print; Halliwell's in three 
 volumes with portraits of actors in cos- 
 tume; Harvard Memorial biographies of 
 those who served in the war, 2 vols.with 
 inserted portraits ; Keynard the Fox, illus- 
 trated by Joseph Wolf and Kaulbach, 
 bound in full morocco;' Famous Paint- 
 ers, finely illustrated; a fac-simile 
 of the first edition of Walton's 
 "Complete Angler;" and a fac-simile of 
 the first edition of Goody Two Shoes, 
 1766; the Life of Prescott, quarto edition, 
 Ticknor's Life and Letters, Letters of J. 
 T. Field, all of them enriched by auto- 
 graphs of the subjects and by the addi- 
 tion of illustrations; very fine editions 
 of Thackeray and of Dickens, and many 
 of the standard novelists. The list might 
 be indefinitely extended, but these we
 
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 have mentioned will give a good idea of 
 some of the curious books in the library. 
 There is a collection of priced catalogues 
 of auction sales of prominent libraries in 
 this country and Europe. It is almost 
 unnecessary to add that the standard 
 works of various kinds which are usu- 
 ally found in private libraries may be 
 seen here. 
 
 Mr. Paine' s library, as might be ex- 
 pected, is well stocked with works relat- 
 ing to local history. He has a complete 
 set of Worcester directories, among the 
 number the first directory, 1828, having 
 only two leaves, also that of 1829, these 
 have been bound together and enlarged 
 by the insertion of various illustrations, 
 many of them consisting of the portraits 
 of old citizens, with a rare map of the 
 town ; a full set of the city documents ; 
 a manuscript sermon preached in 1749, 
 by Rev. Mr. Maccarty, settled over the 
 Old South; Random Recollections of 
 Worcester, 1839-43 with letters and va- 
 rious documents; Lincoln's History of 
 Worcester, a presentation copy by the 
 author to Mr. Paine' s grandfather and 
 extended by Mr. Paine by the insertion of 
 illustrations, also another set interleaved 
 for corrections and additions ; a full his- 
 tory of the local Centennial celebration
 
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 in 1876, comprising all the documents 
 that relate thereto, and also a like col- 
 lection of all documents relating to the Bi- 
 centennial celebration of 1884. We have 
 mentioned only a few of the more promi- 
 nent of his works on local history, but 
 these will serve as samples. We will 
 only add that among his local literature, 
 the articles that have appeared in the 
 HOME JOURNAL relating to Worcester 
 history have been preserved in scrap 
 book form. 
 
 Mr. Paine is not simply a collector of 
 books, but an author as well, we do not 
 refer to the books he has made by addi- 
 tions and extensions, but to books he has 
 written or compiled. We have already 
 alluded to the fact that he has contribut- 
 ed works of substantial merit to theAmer- 
 ican Antiquarian Society and to the So- 
 ciety of Antiquity. Some twelve or four- 
 teen volumes of his works may be seen 
 on his shelves. These works are largely 
 local, relating to the history of Worces- 
 ter. Mr. Paine in his spare hours has 
 'devoted not a little time in investigat- 
 ing facts of interest bearing upon the 
 past history of our city, and these facts 
 he has embodied in these volumes. 
 Prominent among these is one read be- 
 fore the Society of Antiquity entitled
 
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 Random Recollections of Worcester. It 
 is a private edition of which only fifty 
 copies were printed. It has been en- 
 larged into a thick octavo and illustrated 
 with portraits, views of Worcester, maps 
 and newspaper cuttings. He is also 
 author of a valuable work on the "Ear- 
 ly Paper Currency of Massachusetts." 
 His own volume of which receives added 
 interest from containing samples of early 
 bills, modern currency, portraits and 
 other appropriate illustrations. 
 
 Apropos to works on currency, Mr. 
 Paine has collected in a volume samples 
 of the fractional currency of the United 
 States, the Massachusetts currency of 
 1722, the fractional currency during the 
 period of the Revolutionary war, and the 
 war of 1812. It includes a complete set of 
 the late United States fractional currency, 
 and many of the various paper substitutes 
 for silver at the time of the civil war, in 
 addition to these are samples of bills, na- 
 tional, state, and Confederate. In another 
 work he has a list of the Colonial and 
 Continental money, published in Phila- 
 delphia, enlarged by the addition of 
 numerous samples of the bills treated of, 
 most of which are genuine bills, with 
 fac-similes of some of the rarer ones. 
 
 Speaking of currency reminds us nat-
 
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 urally of coins, of which Mr. Paine has 
 quite a collection. He sold a collection 
 several years ago, disposing of them at 
 a good profit when the fever for them 
 was at its highest. His collection now 
 consists mostly of medals, with a few 
 coins which are largely proof sets of U. S. 
 silver and smaller coins, and were not is- 
 sued for general circulation. Among the 
 medals are a number which have special 
 interest from their local character ; such 
 as the Gov. John Davis medal, the 
 Isaac Davis bronze medal, the Quinsiga- 
 mond regatta medal in bronze, struck by 
 the citizens of Worcester in commemora- 
 tion of the regatta of 1866, also the 
 bronze medal issued by the Worcester 
 Continentals at the time of their great 
 fair. He has also a collection of some 
 2000 postage stamps; mostly made several 
 years ago when the collecting of them 
 was one of his hobbies. These stamps 
 are for the most part uncancelled, and 
 mounted on fine quarto sheets, illustrat- 
 ed by the coat of arms of different coun- 
 tries. 
 
 Mr. Paine' s library, as one can readily 
 see, is the farthest remove from regula- 
 tion books ; a large proportion of the vol- 
 umes have been enriched with portraits, 
 autographs and biographical notices of
 
 the authors, as also newspaper cuttings 
 with notices of the books or some kin- 
 dred information. Not unfrequently 
 these additions are as valuable as the 
 original matter, and far more difficult to 
 obtain. The library becomes thus not 
 only unique, but extremely valuable be- 
 cause of the wonderfully full and varied 
 information it contains. Mr. Paine as 
 cashier of one of our city banks is a busy 
 man, and this work on his books has 
 been done in the few leisure moments 
 he could snatch from time to time out- 
 side of business hours. The fact that 
 he has done so much himself to enrich 
 his books renders them far more inter- 
 esting, and will give them an additional 
 value to any one in whose hands they 
 may happen to come in the future. 
 
 One can hardly iflok anywhere in the 
 house without being reminded of the 
 owner's love of books, They are scat- 
 tered through every room from parlor to 
 attic in delightful profusion. They are 
 found in glass cases, on open shelves, ly- 
 ing on tables and in all sorts of nooks 
 and corners. At hand near his desk are 
 encyclopaedias, biographical dictionaries 
 and other books of reference. Mr. Paine 
 usually keeps several uncompleted books 
 on hand, adding now to one and now
 
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 to another as he obtains the desired 
 portrait, autograph or newspaper cut- 
 ting. Very much of his time, out of 
 business hours, is spent in this way 
 among his books, and that he finds not a 
 little enjoyment in it goes without say- 
 ing. 
 
 While Mr. Paine has not many volumes 
 bound by the celebrities in the art, yet 
 they are mostly in a substantial binding 
 presenting an attractive appearance to 
 the eye. Though doubtless handled 
 quite a good deal, their neat, tidy ap- 
 pearance shows that they are never 
 abused. To keep books nicely is an art; 
 and the books of this library give evi- 
 dence that their owner has well learned 
 the art. On the whole it is a most de- 
 lightful as well as valuable collection of 
 books, telling in silent but expressive 
 language of the industry, judgment and 
 taste of the owner.
 
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