Excerpt from Catalogue of British and American Book-Plates (Ex Libris) Collected by the Late Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, K. C. B., Etc., 1906 HE immense collection of British and American Book-plates (ex-libris) formed during the last twenty years of his life by that famous antiquary. 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.