DEPARTMENT OF PRINTED BOOKS. 19 



X. — PROGRESS made in the Arrangement and Description 

 OF THE Collections, and Account of Objects 

 ADDED to them in the Year 1913 (Bloomsbur^). 



Department of Printed Books. 



I, Arrangement. — The works added to the collection during 

 the past year have, as far as possible, been placed on the 

 shelves of the Library, according to the system of classification 

 adopted in the Museum. 



The press-marks, indicating their respective localities, ha.ve 

 been marked on the inside and affixed to the back of each 

 volume. 



The total number of these press-marks amounts to 83,323 ; 

 in addition to which 122,673 press-marks have been altered, 

 on books and in the catalogues, in consequence of changes and 

 re-arrangements carried out in the Library ; 34,040 labels have 

 been affixed to books and volumes of newspapers, and 181,133 

 obliterated labels have been renewed. 



The number of stamps impressed upon articles received is 

 oG8,195. 



4,715 presses of books and newspapers have been dusted in 

 the course of the year. 



II. Catalogues. — Cataloguing. — 55,203 titles have been 

 written for the General Catalogue and for the Catalogues of 

 Maps and Music, 



Printing. — 39,457 titles and index-slips for the General 

 Catalogue, 1,917 for the Map Catalogue, and 12,650 for the 

 Music Catalogue have been prepared for printing during the 

 year ; and 39,351 titles and index-slips for the General Cata- 

 logue. 1,681 for the Map Catalogue, and 15,650 for the Music 

 Catalogue, have been printed. 



Reprinting. — 129 columns, including the headings Book of 

 the Dead (7 columns), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 columns), 

 Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, called El Cid (7 columns), Alexandre 

 Dumas (52 columns), Andrew Lang (19 columns), and Piranesi 

 (8 columns) have been revised and reprinted. 



Incorporation. — General Catalogue. — 39,179 title-slips and 

 index-slips have been incorporated into each of the three copies 

 of this Catalogue. This incorporation has rendered it necessary, 

 in order to maintain as far as possible the alphabetical arrange- 

 ment, to remove and re-insert 53,517 title-slips and index-slips 

 in each copy and to add to each copy 702 new leaves. 



The system of fortnightly incorporation of accessions to 

 the Library has been carried out with perfect regularity during 

 the year. 



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