[Rarebooks] [info] Reasons to Collect-

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

There is an interesting passage in the preface to Julia Torrey's 1917 book 
"Old Sheffield Plate". Writing at the height of World War I, Torrey feels 
the need to explain her decision to publish a book on a subject as 
'frivolous' as collecting-

"The spirit of destruction is rampant, and is eating its way into our lives 
whether we will it or no. Our best energies are spent in the creation of 
huge and elaborate mechanisms for the sole purpose of destroying and of 
being destroyed. In view of this very fact, is it..."

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