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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 Excerpt: ... that the paper was printed before the death of William III. The entire piece is so curious that it may deserve to be quoted at length: --"The Royal Library, now at St. James's, designed and founded for public use, was in the time of James I. in a flourishing condition, well stored with all sorts of good books of that and the preceding age, from the beginning of printing. But in the succeeding reigns it has gradually gone to decay, to the great dishonour of the Crown and the whole nation. The room is miserably out of repair, and so little that it will not contain the books that belong to it. A collection of ancient medals, once the best in Europe, is embezzled and quite lost. There has been no supply of books from abroad for the space of 60 years past; nor any allowance for binding; so that many valuable manuscripts arc spoiled for want of covers; and above one thousand books printed in England and brought in guises to the library, as due by the Act for Printing, are all unbound and useless. It is therefore humbly proposed, as a thing that will highly conduce to the public good, the glory of his Majesty's reign, and the honour of Parliameut: "1. That his Majesty be graciously pleased to assign a corner of St. James's Park, on the south-side near the garden of the late Sir John Cutler, for the building of a new Library; and in the neighbourhood of it a competent dwelling for the Library-keeper. BOOK III. Bentley ultimately resigned his keepership in favour Library of the of his son, Richard Bentley, by whom the office was iritish Museum. sold to Claudius Amyand, the last holder of it, under the original conditions. The list of Royal Librarians, so far as I find them recorded, runs thus: --John Leland, 1533--1552? Roger Ascham, 1552?--1568. "2. T...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781130513615
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 258
  • Spine Width: 14 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1130513610
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 467 gr

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