| Description |
xiv, 343 pages, ; 20 cm |
| Series |
The library series ; v.5 |
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Library series ; v.5
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| Contents |
Address to the Library association [1898]--Public libraries and their catalogues.--The printing of the British museum Catalogue.--The past, present, and future of the British museum Catalogue.--The British museum Catalogue as the basis of a universal catalogue.--Introduction of European printing into the East.--Paraguayan and Argentine bibliography.--The early Italian book trade.--Some book-hunters of the seventeenth century.--Librarianship in the seventeenth century.--The manufacture of fine paper in England in the eighteenth century.--On some colophons of the early printers.--On the system of classifying books on the shelves followed at the British museum.--Subject indexes to transactions of learned societies.--Photography in public libraries.--The telegraph in the library.--On the protection of libraries from fire.--The sliding-press at the British museum.--On the provision of additional space in libraries.--Preface to Blades "Enemies of books."--Sir Anthony Panizzl.--The late John Winter Jones.--The late Henry Stevens.--The late Sir Edward A. Bond.--Index |
| Notes |
Occasional addresses and papers, for the most part previously published in various reviews, 1877-1898 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online images available via the State Library of NSW at: http://digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?embedded=true&toolbar=false&dps_pid=IE5069896 |
| Subject |
British Museum.
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Library science.
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| Genre/Form |
Bibliographies.
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| Author |
Panizzi, Anthony, Sir, 1797-1879.
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British Museum.
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| LC no. |
02002043 |
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