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amounts to 720 in each of these copies, and the necessary entries have been made in 

 the Hand-Catalogue. 



Certain presses in the lower gallery of the Reading Room have been fitted-up, and 

 furnished with a selection of books, as the commencement of an additional Library of 

 Reference. 



The Special Collection of Bibliographies in the Reading-Room has been kept up by 

 the addition of new works which have appeared suitable. 



(J.) Catalogue of English Books printed before 1640. — The titles prepared for this 

 Catalogue have been finally revised, and are now being prepared for press. 



III. Binding. — The number of volumes and pamphlets sent to be bound in the course 

 of the year amounts to 17,252; including 959 volumes of newspapers; and, in con- 

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

 the number of bound volumes returned is 7,839. In addition to this, 1,184 pamphlets 

 have been separately bound, and 775 volumes have been i-epaired. 



IV. Reading Room Service. — The number of volumes returned to the General 

 Library from use in the Reading Room is 423,970; to the Royal Library, 11,950; 

 to the Grenville Library, 455 ; and to the presses in which books are kept from day 

 to day for the use of readers, 374,503. 



The number of readers during the year has been 134,273, giving an average of 455 daily ; 

 and, from the numbers given above, each reader appears to have consulted about 6 volumes 

 per diem, not reckoning those on the shelves in the Reading Room. 



V. Additions. — (a.) 28,284 volumes and pamphlets have been added to the Library in the 

 course of the year (including books of Music and volumes of Newspapers), of which 2,698 

 were presented, 8,622 received in pursuance of the laws of English Copyright, 863 

 received under the International Copyright Treaties, and 15,265 acquired by purchase. 



(J.) 43,513 parts of volumes (or separate numbers of periodical publications, and 

 Avorks in progress) have also been added, of which 1,023 were presented, 20,069 received 

 in pursuance of the laws of English Copyright, 518 received under the International 

 Copyright Treaties, and 21,903 acquired by purchase. 



(c.) The number of sets of Newspapers published in the United Kingdom and received 

 under the provisions of the Copyright Act during the past year has been as follows, viz. : 

 322 published in London and its suburbs, 1,066 in other parts of England and Wales, 

 158 in Scotland, and 127 in Ireland. 93 volumes, and 31 numbers belonging to 

 34 different sets, have been purchased ; and 6,447 numbers have been presented. 



{d.) 6,235 pieces of Music have been acquired, each piece complete in itself, of which 

 3,678 were received by English and 2,006 by International Copyright, and 551 by 

 purchase. 



(e.) The number of distinct works comprised in the 28,284 volumes and pamphlets, and 

 43,513 parts of volumes already mentioned, amounts, as nearly as can be ascertained, to 

 30,182. Of these, 2,526 have been presented, 9,347 acquired by English, and 810 by 

 International Copyright, and 17,499 by purcliase, 



(/.) 10,243 articles have been received in the Department, not included in the foregoing 

 enumeration of volumes and parts of volumes, comprising Playbills, single pieces of 

 Music, Broadsides, Songs, Parliamentary Papers, and other miscellaneous items; the 

 addition of this number to those already given produces a total of 82,040 articles 

 received in the Department. The number of stamps impressed upon articles received is 

 altogether 313,385. 



Among the additions to the Collection during the year may be noted : — 



The books purchased at the sale of a further portion of the Didot Collection, in June 

 last, including the following : — " G. Tardivi, Anicensis : Rhetorice artis ac oiatorle 

 facultatis compendium ;" an early Paris book, printed by P. Caesaris and J. Sfoll, who 

 established the second printing press at Paris, the productions of which are extremely 

 rare. A rare edition of Virgil, printed at Lyons by Etienne Dolet in 1540. A collec- 

 tion of epitaphs on the death of Louise de Savoy, mother of Francis L, " Imprime a 

 Paris a I'enseigne du Pot Casse, par Maisrre Geofroy Tory de Bourges, Libraire et 

 Imprimeur du Koy, 1531 ." " Fasciculus temporum, en francoys : Les fleurs et manieres 

 de temps passes. Imprime a lyon par Maistre Mathie Hus," 1498. "La Destruction 

 de Jherusalem et la mort de Pilate ;" a rare edition, printed at Lyons, probably by 

 Guillaume le Roy, 1485. " Historic au vray du meurtre et assassinat proditoirement 

 comis au cabinet d'un Roy perfide et barbare en la personne de Monsieur le Due de 

 Guise," etc., 1589. "Les grads triumphes, faictz a letree du treschrestien 2, victorieux 

 Roy Henry second de ce no en sa noble ville cite z Universite de Paris." Paris, 

 1549. 



From Other Sonrces. — The first edition of the " Rudimenta Grammatices et docendi 

 methodus," composed for the use of the School founded at Ipswich by Cardinal Wolsey, 



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