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Tlie collection of books in the galleries of the Reading 

 Room has continued to receive additions by the incorporation 

 of new works of interest and importance, and the substitution 

 of new for older editions. The number of additions to each 

 of the two interleaved copies of the Catalogue of this collec- 

 tion has been 107. 



(c.) Publications. — A third volume of " A Subject Index of 

 " the Modern Works added to the Library of the British 

 " Museum, comprising additions made during the years 

 " 1891-1895," and compiled, like the two preceding ones, by 

 Mr. G. K. Fortescue, Senior Assistant Keeper in the Depart- 

 ment, was printed and issued by the Trustees in the early 

 part of last year. It is formed upon the same plan as the 

 two former and contains about 47,750 entries. 



Another work prepared and published during the year, 

 " Facsimiles from early printed Books in the British Museum," 

 consists of reproductions, mostly by photo-lithography, of 

 thirty-six '• selected pages from representative specimens of 

 " the early printed books of Germany, Italy, France, Hol- 

 " land and England, exhibited in the King's Library." The 

 permanent exhibition of books illustrating the history of 

 printing, on view in the King's Library, has been found of 

 great value and interest by students able to consult it. In 

 this publication an attempt was made to reproduce, at a 

 moderate price, its most characteristic features, so as to make 

 them available for comparison in other libraries, and for 

 general reference away from the Museum, 



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

 pamphlets sent to be bound in the course of the year has been 

 22,013, including 3,G52 volumes of newspapers. In conse- 

 quence of the frequent adoption of the plan of binding two or 

 more volumes in one, the number of volumes returned 

 has been 9,896 ; in addition to which 187 pamphlets have been 

 separately bound, and 229 volumes have been repaired at the 

 binder's. 



Besides this, the following binding work has been done 

 in the Library itself : — 5,901 volumes have been repaired ; 

 348 broadsides, fee, have been inserted in guard-books, and 

 2,930 volumes of reports, time-tables, parts of periodicals, &c., 

 have been formed, in a light style of binding. 



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

 mounted during the year: — 36 atlases, 9 volumes of the 

 Ordnance Survey of Towns, 59 volumes of the 25-inch 

 Ordnance Survey, and 3 volumes of the 6-inch Ordnance 

 Survey have been bound ; 104 sheets of the 1-inch 

 Ordnance Survey, 328 sheets of the English Admiralty 

 Charts, 37 sheets of the " Hydrographie frangaise," and 

 363 general maps have been mounted on linen, and 295 

 maps, &c., mounted on cards. 



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