Excerpt from A Guide to Marblehead A preface is sometimes said to be an author's apology for thrusting another book before the public. I have no. Apology to make for presenting A Guide to Marblehead. A work of this kind has seemed to be a necessity for sev eral years, and if this little book shall serve to assist those who desire to know more of our town and its points of historical interest, it will do all that its author has hoped for it. 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.