Download or read book A Library of American Literature, Vol. 11 of 11 written by Edmund Clarence Stedman and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Library of American Literature, Vol. 11 of 11: From the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time In conclusion, our renewed acknowledgments are tendered to the power ful and widely-distributed guild of American publishers, who control the usufruct of nearly all works issued here within the last forty-two years, and without whose consent the reproduction of so much of the matter presented in this Library would have been impossible. Every publisher whose au thors are quoted therein has placed, without exception and with courteous and friendly assurances, his entire list at the disposal of the editors, in an swer to their personal solicitation. The large and the lesser houses alike have given us this vantage, confiding in our promise that it should be used and not abused. We have realized the great value of such a trust, never before ex tended on this scale to American compilers, and have endeavored to avail ourselves of it in such wise as to secure a reflex benefit to the liberal donors. A full list of these firms, with their addresses, follows close upon this Preface and if, in the acknowledgment pages at the end of each volume, there has been any failure to give credit for a certain book or other copyrighted matter, the omission has been from oversight, or from inability to discover an exist in g proprietor. 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.