A Guide to the Use of the. Beading Boom. 



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No tickets need be written for books on the ground floor. 

 They can be freely taken from the shelves, subject to the condition 

 that as soon as they are done with they are replaced on the proper 

 shelf of the press to which they belong, in order that they may 

 become available for use by other readers. In the case of the books 

 most in demand duplicate copies are provided. These are placed in 

 the General Library, and readers who desire to make prolonged use 

 of a book on the reference shelves are recommended to look in the 

 General Catalogue, and, if a second copy is tolbe found there, to 

 apply for it. As has already been said, a book from the reference 

 shelves must not be used to keep a seat. The staff are 

 instructed to return to the shelves any such book which has been 

 left on a desk or table and is not in actual use. ' 



The books in the lower gallery of the Beading Eoom, bearing 

 the press-marks 2200 to 2504, consist of standard works in every 

 branch of literature, forming a supplement to the books of reference 

 on the ground floor, while the serials and other periodicals in the 

 upper gallery, press-marked E.P.P. 1-6529 and E. Ac. 1-9959 are 

 selected as being those of the greatest utility or in most frequent 

 request. For these books and periodicals, tickets of application 

 must be written. 



Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century now in 

 THE British Museum. 1908, etc. 2038. f. and Circle 100. b. 



The collection of Incunabula in the Library comprises about 

 9,500 different examples. These are fully described in this Cata- 

 logue, now in progress. The arrangement of the work is by 

 countries, towns and printers in chronological order. A special 

 feature of the Catalogue consists of a series of facsimiles embracing 

 nearly every type used in the fifteenth century. These are designed 

 to facilitate the identification of books by unnamed printers and to 

 show at a glance the equipment of each firm. 



Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland and 

 Ireland to the Year 1640. 3 vol. 1884. Circle 95. a. 



This Catalogue contains the titles of books printed in the United 

 Kingdom, and of English books printed abroad, to the close of the 

 year 1640, a date which was chosen to prevent the inclusion of the 

 multitude of political and theological books which began to flow 

 from the press immediately after this year, the greater part of 

 these being included in the Thomason Collection (see below, 

 p. 16). The Catalogue was printed in 1884, since which date over 

 two thousand books have been added to the collection of early 



