Five winters now I have kept this album, and it gladdens me anew each evening I open it under the green-shade lamp. The chromolithographs of Messrs. Allen & Ginter, Goodwin, Duke, and Sweet Caporal are no idle trifles — they are pocket-sized triumphs of the printer's craft, a dozen lithographic stones or more for a single card, gilt-edged and richly inked, equal to any colour-plate in any gentleman's library. Click any card to read its full description; mark those acquired with a tick, star those still sought.
Every exchange I have made by post, set down with the care it deserves. The fraternity of collectors is the truest network of friendship I know — men and women I have never laid eyes upon, who pack each card in tissue and ribbon as though it were their own first-born.