Excerpt from A Catalogue of the Classic Contents of Strawberry Hill The following account of pictures and rarities is given with a view to their future dispersion, the several purchasers will find a history of their purchases, nor do virtuosos dislike to refer to such a catalogue for an authentic certificate of their curiosities. Preface to the Description of Strawberry Hill, by horace walpole. 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.

Auction catalogue for the sale of the "valuable contents of Strawberry Hill" by Mr George Robins on "Monday, the 25th day of April, 1842 and twenty-three following days (Sundays excepted)" -- p. [iii].

The Mind Is a Collection approaches seventeenth- and eighteenth-century theory of the mind from a material point of view, examining the metaphors for mental activity that invoked the material activity of collection.