Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Hampton L. Carson Collection of Engraved Portraits of Gen. George Washington Will you not therefore at your convenience have the pictures catalogued, properly advertised and sold? It would be fortunate if some institution could acquire them, as they must grow in value and in national interest with every year, illustrating the history of our country as nothing else can do, and it is now impossible to reconstruct another collection containing precisely the same subjects. 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.