A biographical sketch of sir Anthony PanizziAsher&Company, 1873 - 87 sider |
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Robert Cowtan. J. WINTER JONES , ESQ . , V.P.S.A. PRINCIPAL LIBRARIAN OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM , THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY BY INSCRIBED HIS DEVOTED AND FAITHFUL SERVANT , ROBERT COWTAN . INDEX . ATHERTON , Sir W. BABER , Rev. H.
Robert Cowtan. J. WINTER JONES , ESQ . , V.P.S.A. PRINCIPAL LIBRARIAN OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM , THIS VOLUME IS RESPECTFULLY BY INSCRIBED HIS DEVOTED AND FAITHFUL SERVANT , ROBERT COWTAN . INDEX . ATHERTON , Sir W. BABER , Rev. H.
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... servant of the public . The resignation of Mr. Baber made an impor- tant vacancy in the library of the Museum ; and the appointment of his successor gave occasion to no small amount of misapprehension and much angry feeling among ...
... servant of the public . The resignation of Mr. Baber made an impor- tant vacancy in the library of the Museum ; and the appointment of his successor gave occasion to no small amount of misapprehension and much angry feeling among ...
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... servant had promised Mr. Panizzi to bequeath his splendid library to the British Museum ; and on the 28th of October , 1845 , by a codicil to his will , he carried out this noble purpose . There is no doubt as to the fact that the ...
... servant had promised Mr. Panizzi to bequeath his splendid library to the British Museum ; and on the 28th of October , 1845 , by a codicil to his will , he carried out this noble purpose . There is no doubt as to the fact that the ...
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... servant who would so faithfully and energetically enforce their rights . It should be understood that no imputation whatever is to be drawn from what has been said , that the publications due to the Museum from this publisher were ...
... servant who would so faithfully and energetically enforce their rights . It should be understood that no imputation whatever is to be drawn from what has been said , that the publications due to the Museum from this publisher were ...
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... servant ? ' desirable that a copy of every publication in the United Kingdom should be deposited in the British Museum , there are but two courses by which this object can be attained : gratuitous delivery by the booksellers , or ...
... servant ? ' desirable that a copy of every publication in the United Kingdom should be deposited in the British Museum , there are but two courses by which this object can be attained : gratuitous delivery by the booksellers , or ...
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ability admiration adopted autobiography Baber beautiful bibliographical Brescello British Museum career Carlyle Cary catalogue Charles Lamb collection connected copy Copyright Act Copyright Office delivery of publications Department of Printed distinguished dome duty Earl Russell earnest eminent energy enforce England erection feet foreign fully gentleman greatest Grenville Grenville's honour House of Commons inquiry institution interesting Italian Keeper known labours Late Principal Librarian literary literature London Lord Brougham Lord Houghton Lord Macaulay Memories ment Montague House Museum was entitled national library never occasion Oliver Cromwell opinion Panizzi's appointment Panizzi's plans Parliament Parliamentary period pleasant pleasure portrait present Principal Librarian Principal Trustees Printed Books publishers readers Reading-room referred remarks remember retire ROBERT COWTAN Royal Commissioners servant Sir Anthony Panizzi Sir David Dundas Sir Henry Ellis sketch surrounding libraries Sydney Smirke Ugo Foscolo valuable volume Watts Winter Jones writer
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Side 84 - Society in 1880, and the Honorary Degree of DCL was conferred on him by the University of Oxford in 1881.
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Side 58 - Each person has a space of 4 feet 3 inches long. He is screened from the opposite occupant by a longitudinal division, which is fitted with a hinged desk, graduated on sloping racks, and a folding-shelf for spare books.
Side 58 - Dome-room will contain 80,000 volumes. Two lifts are placed at convenient stations for the purpose of raising the books to the level of the several gallery floors. The bookcases are of novel and simple construction, the uprights or standards being formed of malleable iron galvanized and framed together, having fillets of beech inserted between the iron to receive the brass pins upon which the shelves rest. The framework of the book-cases forms the support for the iron perforated floors of the gallery...
Side 44 - Whatever be the judgment formed on points at issue, the minutes of evidence must be admitted to contain frequent proofs of the acquirements and abilities, the manifestation of which in subordinate office led to Mr. Panizzi's promotion to that which he now holds under circumstances which, in our opinion, founded on documentary evidence, did credit to the Trustees of the day...
Side 37 - Grenville's library was most liberally rendered accessible to any person, however humble his condition of life, who could show the least cause for asking the loan of any of his precious volumes. By bequeathing the whole to his country, Mr. Grenville has secured to literary men, even after his death, that assistance, so far as relates to the use of his books, which he so generously bestowed on them in every way during his long and dignified career — the career of a man of high birth, distinguished...