DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS. 15 



Catalogue of Books printed in the X Vth Century. — Work on this 

 Catalogue was resumed in July, 1919, and full descriptions of the 

 incunabula from the first 42 Venetian presses have now been 

 completed. Rather more than a quarter of the Venetian books 

 have thus been dealt with. 



III. Binding. — The number of volumes and sets of pamphlets 

 sent to be bound in the course of the year was 13,251, including 

 4,228 volumes of newspapers. In consequence of the frequent 

 adoption of the plan of binding two or more volumes in one, the 

 number of volumes returned was 10,742. In addition, 956 volumes 

 have been repaired in the binders' shops. 



Besides this, the following binding work has been done in the 

 Library itself : — 4,334 volumes have been repaired, 7,668 cleaned 

 and polished, 5,152 volumes of reports, parts of periodicals, &c., 

 have been bound in a light style of binding. 



The following maps, &c., have also been bound or mounted 

 daring the year :— r-Four atlases and 80 volumes of the 25-inch 

 Ordnance Survey have been bound ; in addition, 115 general maps, 

 in 419 sheets, have been mounted on linen, 180 maps in 644 

 sheets mounted on cards, and 468 Admiralty Charts mounted on 

 linen. 



56,943 numbers of Colonial Newspapers have been made up inta 

 1,251 parcels, and 1,259 parcels have been tied up and labelled. 



74 volumes of the General Catalogue have been broken up and 

 re-bound. 632 columns have been re-laid, owing to the accumula- 

 tion of titles under certain headings. 15 volumes of the Music 

 Catalogue have been re-bound. 



IV. Reading Room Service. — The number of volumes replaced 

 in the General Library after use in the Reading Room was 413,719; 

 in the King's Library, 12,507 ; in the Grenville Library, 1,803 ; 

 in the Map Room, 2,974 ; in the presses in which books are kept 

 frosn day to day for the use of readers, 605,214 ; and in the Oriental 

 Department, 3,396 ; making a total of 1,039,613 volumes supplied 

 to readers during the year, exclusive of those to which the readers 

 have |)ersonal access on the shelves of the Reading Room. The 

 number ol readers during the year was 130,198, giving an average 

 ot" 431 daily — the room having been open on 302 days. 



Newspapv^r Room. — The number of readers during the year was 

 10,407, giving a daily average of 35 — the room having been open 

 on 302 days. The number of volumes replaced after use was 

 38,868, giving a daily average of 129 not reckoning volumes 

 taken from the shelves of the Newspaper Room by the readers 

 themselves. In addition, 1,100 country newspapers were brought 

 up to the Library from the Repositorv at Hendon for the use o£ 

 readers. 



Map Room. -^-260 students were admitted to the Map Room. 



