Gems Press specializes in creating and publishing curated gems of information resurrected from old books and documents. A recent book is Courtly Quips & Gentry Gems: The Best of Early English Wit. It’s a collection of hundreds of the best authentic quips, jests, bon mots, anecdotes, quotations, poems, etc., from the 1700s and 1800s — many appearing for the first time in a modern format.
Also digitized for the first time is A Collection of Tracts, on the Subjects of Taxing the British Colonies in America, and Regulating Their Trade. Volume I. Doesn’t sound that exciting, but it kind of is, if you enjoy reading well-reasoned arguments on weighty issues, in learned 18th-century language — these tracts were published in 1773, as the force of the coming American Revolutionary War was building.
Another favorite is the Gem’s Fascinating Leisure Reader series: Volume One and Volume Two share discoveries from deserving but long-neglected texts — dozens of anecdotes and passages, ones we think you’ll really enjoy and find interesting, gathered into book form. Gem’s Readers are basically bathroom readers for smart people. Some of the excerpts are funny; some are rather odd or alarming (although they should not give you nightmares); but they are all, in their way, fascinating.
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