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pieces were presented, 9,669 books and pieces and 1,656 parts were 

 received by Copyright ; 533 pieces by Colonial Copyright ; 

 and 86 books and 267 parts acquired by purchase. 



N'ewspapers. — The number of newspapers published in the 

 United Kingdom, received under the provisions of the Copy- 

 right Act during the year, was 3,420, comprising 230,922 

 single numbers. Of these newspapers, 1,259 were published in 

 London and its suburbs ; 1,634 in other parts of England and 

 Wales and in the Channel Islands ; 292 in Scotland ; and 235 

 in Ireland. Fourteen sets, comprising 3,545 single numbers, 

 were received by Colonial Copyright ; 272 sets, comprising 

 41,577 single numbers, of colonial and foreign newspapers have 

 been presented ; and 80 sets, comprising 21 volumes and 14,801 

 single numbers, of current colonial and foreign newspapers have 

 been purchased. 



Miscellaneous. — 8,624 articles not included in the foregoing 

 paragraphs have been received in the Department. These 

 consist of Parliamentary Papers, single sheets, and other 

 miscellaneous items. 



The total number of articles enumerated above as having 

 been received in the Department during the year, exclusive 

 of newspapers, is 141,301. 



Acquisitions of Special Interest. — The following is a list of 

 the most important and interesting books acquired by purchase 

 during the year. It includes purchases from the third portion 

 of the Huth sale and from the first portion of the Dunn sale. 



Foreign Books. — In addition to 31 foreign and two English 

 Incunabula mentioned below as acquired by exchange, the 

 following have been purchased : — 



Thomas Aquinas : " Catena aurea."' Sweynheim and 

 Pannartz, Eome, 7 December, 1470. Vol. 2. 



Xenophon : " Hiero, sive de vita tyranniea." Adam of 

 Ammergau, Venice. [1471.] 



St. Augustine : " Speculum peccatoris." Giinther Zainer, 

 Augsburg [about 1472]. 



" Constitutiones Clementinse." Leonhard PHugl and Georg 

 Lauer, Rome, 18 March, 1473. 



Pope Pius II : " De miseriis curialium." Johannes Philippus 

 de Lignamine, Rome, 1473. In a contemporary binding. 



Georgius Trapezuntius : " Compendium orationis ex Pris- 

 ciano." In the types of Christopher Valdarfer, Milan, 

 1 February, 1474. 



Gratianus : " Decretum." Adam of Rottweil, Venice, [1480.] 

 With the arms of Pope Pius VI on the binding. 



" Etats tenus a Tours en 1483." [Jean Dupre, Paris, 1483.] 



Franciscus de Mairone : " Sermones." Printed by the 

 Brothers of the Common Life, Brussels, 1484. In the boards 

 of the original binding, bearing a monastic stamp. (Dunn 

 copy.) 



