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Maps. — 106 atlases, 97 parts of atlases, and 1,5:^3 maps in 

 '6,884 sheets have been added to the collection during the 

 course of the year. Of these, 20 atlases, 38 parts of atlases, 

 ^nd 556 maps were presented ] 33 atlases, 5 parts of atlases, 

 and 818 maps received by Copyright ; 8 atlases and 30 maps 

 by Colonial Copyright ; and 45 atlases, 54 parts of atlases, 

 and 179 maps acquired by purchase. 



if itsic — 10,445 musical publications have been added to 

 the collection in the course of the year. Of these, 8,135 books 

 and pieces, and 1,644 parts were received by Copyright ; 513 

 pieces by Colonial Copyright ; and 63 books and 90 parts 

 acquired by purchase. 



Newspapers. — The number of newspapers published in the 

 United Kingdom, received by Copyright during the year, was 

 -3,535, comprising 241,111 single numbers. 1,223 of these news- 

 papers were published in London and its suburbs ; 1,786 in 

 other parts of England and Wales and in the Channel Islands ; 

 \289 in Scotland ; and 237 in Ireland. 13 sets, containing 

 ^,265 numbers, were received by Colonial Copyright ; 291 sets, 

 containing 44,867 numbers of Colonial and foreign news- 

 papers, have been presented ; and 76 sets, containing 14 volumes 

 and 13,381 numbers of current Colonial and foreign newspapers, 

 have been purchased. 



Miscellaneous. — 4,380 articles not included in the foregoing 

 paragraphs have been received in the Department. These 

 -consist of single sheets, Parliamentary papers, and other 

 miscellaneous items. 



The total number of articles enumerated above, as having 

 "been received in the Department during the present year, 

 exclusive of newspapers, is 108,706. 



Acquisitions of Special Interest.— -^ighij English books 

 printed before the year 1640, and sixty-four Incunabula (books 

 printed before the year 1501), have been added to the Library 

 during the year 1908. 



Among the English books the most interesting are : — 



^' Quattuor Sermones." Printed by Julian Notary, 1499. 



" Salisbury Primer."* Pj-inted by Thielman Kerver, Paris, 

 for William Bretton, London, 1510. With seventeen fine 

 woodcuts. Imperfect, wanting the first nine leaves containing 

 the title and calendar, January to A.ugust, as well as Sig. B 

 viii. and the last eight leaves. Hoskins mentions three other 

 copies, all imperfect. 



Plutarch : " De tuenda bona valetudine precepta Erasmo 

 Roterodamo interprete." Printed by Richard Pynson, 1513. 

 An undescribed book printed in the Roman type first used by 

 Pynson in the Oration of Petrus Gryphus, Papal Legate to 

 Henry VIL, printed in 1509. The work is dedicated by 

 Erasmus to John Young, Warden of New College and Arch- 

 deacon of London. In the original binding, with eight other 

 early books, mostly duplicates. 



