Part the first. History of libraries (contin.) Economy of libraries

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Trübner & Company, 1859
 

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Contemporary Accounts of the Purchase of Usshers Library by
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The Fagel Collection
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The Quest for cheap Catalogues forty years ago
60
The extent value and poverty of the Library
66
Samuel Madden and his Foundations
72
The Dublin National Gallery and Libraries Act
78
Sion College Library
85
Literary Benefactions to the Royal Society
91
Thomas Cartes Scheme of a London Library
98
Discovery of an old Collection of Historical Works
105
The Library of Gerald Earl of Kildare
113
Early BookAuctions
119
Library of Lord Willoughby de Broke
125
The palmy days of Bibliomania
131
Roxburghe and Stanley Sales
132
CHAPTER XXIV
139
Charles Earl of Sunderland as a Collector
145
Evelyns Library
151
The Roscoe and Madden Catalogue
157
CHAPTER I
163
Rapid improvement in the American demand for books
166
Its Regulations and public usefulness
172
Recent Augmentations
178
The Loganian Collection
186
Gifts of André Michaux
192
The Academy of Natural Sciences
198
CHAPTER III
202
The Warden Collection
208
CHAPTER IV
213
The Library of the City of Boston
214
Extracts from his Will and from the Act incorporating his Trustees
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CHAPTER V
227
Recent Disputes as to the Working of the Institution
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Mr Jewetts Plans for the Smithsonian Library
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Township Library Act in Michigan
240
State of the Royal Library at the outbreak of the Revolution
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The National Library at Lisbon 555
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Revolutionary Acquisitions
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The Royal Library during the Restoration Epoch
282
GIFTS
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THE LIBRARIES OF ITALY
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The choice MSS of the Vatican
355
Visits to the Ambrosiana of Evelyn Montfaucon Addison and Keysler
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Public Library of Bologna and its choice MSS
365
Magliabechi and his Library
371
Report of MM DAremberg and Renan
377
The Gifts of Petrarch and of Bessarion
380
THE GRANDDUCAL LIBRARY OF WEIMAR
431
Subsequent augmentations and present state
437
The Public Libraries of Hamburgh
443
Cosmography
447
Town Library of Goerlitz
449
Labours of Jaeck and his Bequest
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Choice MSS in the Town Library
461
Recent Accessions
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University Library of Jena
469
Its subsequent History and rapid Growth
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University Library of Giessen
481
The Collection of the Margraves of Ansbach
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CHAPTER IX
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CHAPTER X
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Maps
531
Architecture
537
CHAPTER XI
548
Painting
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Gustav Heines Account of Libraries in Portugal 1846
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Provincial Libraries
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Continental Town Libraries
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PART THE SECOND
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Extent to which existing Libraries have profited by Gifts
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CHAPTER IV
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Works of the State Paper Commission
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Publications of the New York State Government
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OF SOME INFERENCES THAT MAY BE DRAWN FROM LIBRARY STA
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OF APPROXIMATIVE ESTIMATES OF THE COST OF LIBRARIES
641
OF THE FORMATION OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS OF PAMPHLETS
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CHAPTER I
667
New Library of St Geneviève
674
The Ducal Library of Wolfenbüttel 630
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Imperial Library at St Petersburgh
691
Astor Library at New York
700
CHAPTER II
709
Count De Labordes Design for a Library
715
Plan for a small Lending Library
722
Galleries
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CHAPTER IV
735
Recent discussions about FindingCatalogues
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Defects of the Plan of Watts Bibliotheca Britannica
754
Robert Etiennes Scheme of 1546
760
Physics
764
Other Modifications of the Baconian Scheme
766
History
770
Garniers Systema Bibliothecæ Collegii Parisiensis Societatis Jesu
772
Abbé Girards Scheme
778
Conyers Middletons Bibliothecæ Cantabrigiensis ordinandæ methodus
779
Daunous Scheme
785
Coleridges Essay on Method
791
Alberts Scheme
798
Schleiermachers Bibliographisches System der gesammten Wissenschafts
804
Bibles
810
Tabular View of the principal Schemes in two groups To face page
811
CHAPTER III
832
Rules and Examples as to Anonymous Pseudonymous and Apo
840
Examples of Titles of Early Printed Books
846
Cost of Printing
852
Opinions of Messrs Corney Craik Payne Collier and Carlyle
858
Plans of Stereotyping
865
The Catalogues of the Imperial Library at Paris
871
Specimens of Catalogues suggested for Town Libraries
878
Specimen of an Index of Topics
881
CHAPTER VI
887
Specimen of the detailed Arrangement of a Collection of moderate
894
Synoptical View of the Reference Department of the Manchester Free
907
ShowCollection of Early Printed Books arranged to illustrate
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Classification of Prints
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INTERNAL ADMINISTRATION
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BOARDS OF MANAGEMENT TOWN COUNCILS AND CENTRAL INSPECTION
939
Means of facilitating such a System
945
Sermons
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The Staff required for the Routine Duties of a Library largely fre
953
CHAPTER IV
959
Changes in the Art which ensued upon the Invention of Printing
963
Diana of Poitiers as a Patron of Bookbinders
966
Extracts from the Diary of Humphrey Wanley
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Bozérian and Lesnés Character of him
978
CHAPTER V
988
Qualifications which must accompany the official Evidence as to
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Booktickets
1033
Biographies Calendars Peerages etc
1041
THE REGULATIONS OF THE REFERENCE DEPARTMENT OF THE MAN
1049
THE REGULATION OF LENDING LIBRARIES
1051
Registration of Issues
1057
CHAPTER VIII
1063
Concluding Observations
1069
Specimen of an Index of Authors 882
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Death of Van Praet 285
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The List of Illustrations is printed at the end of the Table of Con
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