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Page 191 - The Lord Chamberlain. The three Principal Secretaries of State. The Bishop of London. The Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench. The Master of the Rolls. The Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. The Attorney-General. The Solicitor-General. The President of the Royal Society. The President of the
Page 33 - An Act for the Purchase of the Museum or Collection of Sir Hans Sloane and of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts, and for providing one General Repository for the better Reception and more convenient Use of the said Collections and of the Cottonian Library and of the additions thereto.
Page 203 - Subsequent Copyright Acts : 26 George II., c. 22. For the Purchase of the Museum or Collection of Sir Hans Sloane and of the Harleian collection of Manuscripts, and for providing one General Repository for the better reception and more convenient Use of the said Collections ; and of the Cottonian Library, and of the Additions thereto. A Decree of Starre Chamber concerning Printing.
Page 201 - The old books with wooden cuts are to be diligently sought ; the designs were often made by great Masters, and the prints are such as cannot be made by any Artist now living. It will be of great use to collect in every place Maps of the adjacent country, and Plans of towns, buildings and gardens.
Page 114 - Day from Bishop Amyot's French version of the Greek original, one of the earliest prose romances known ; Anthony Munday's Banquet of Daintie Conceits. Furnished with verie delicate and choyse inuentions, to delight their mindes, who take -pleasure in Musique, and there-withall to sing sweete Ditties, either to the Lute,
Page 32 - and has made me one of the trustees of his museum, which is to be offered for twenty thousand pounds. . . . He valued it at fourscore thousand pounds, and so would anybody who loves hippopotamuses, sharks with one ear, and spiders as big as geese ! You may believe that those who think money the most valuable of all curiosities will not be purchasers.
Page 54 - the most intricate inquiry, as the richest man in the kingdom, as far as books go, and I contend that the government is bound to give him the most liberal and unlimited assistance in this respect. I want the
Page 201 - Of the celebrated Printers you do not need to be informed, and if you did, might consult Baillet, Jugemens des Sçavans. The productions of Aldus are enumerated in the Bibliotheca Grceca. . . . The great ornaments of a Library, furnished
Page 197 - Excerpts from Section 15 : Delivery of Books to Libraries (i) The publisher of every book printed in the United Kingdom, shall, within one month after the publication, deliver, at his own expense, a copy of the book to the trustees of the British Museum, who shall give a written receipt for it. (2) He shall also, if written demand is made before the expiration of twelve months after publication deliver
Page 111 - Albans, Wynkyn de Worde, 1486 ; the Salisbury Primer, printed by Regnault, of Paris, 1531, and the Sforziada of Simoneta, Milan, 1490—" a most splendid volume even in so splendid a library." The only other vellum copies known of this last are two in the