A Biographical Sketch of Sir Anthony Panizzi, K.C.B., LL.D., Etc., Late Principal Librarian, British MuseumAsher, 1873 - 87 páginas |
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... building recently erected for its reception , gave immediate scope for the exemplification of Mr. Panizzi's plans for the improvement of the national collection . We remember the morning that the first load of books was removed from the ...
... building recently erected for its reception , gave immediate scope for the exemplification of Mr. Panizzi's plans for the improvement of the national collection . We remember the morning that the first load of books was removed from the ...
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... building is unique , so that we may be allowed to give some brief details respecting it . The principal apartment is the Reading - room , which is circular . The dome is a hundred and forty feet in diameter , and its height a hundred ...
... building is unique , so that we may be allowed to give some brief details respecting it . The principal apartment is the Reading - room , which is circular . The dome is a hundred and forty feet in diameter , and its height a hundred ...
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... building altogether will accommodate about one million three hundred thousand volumes . The standards of the bookcases are formed of malleable iron , galvanised and framed together , having fillets of beech inserted between the iron to ...
... building altogether will accommodate about one million three hundred thousand volumes . The standards of the bookcases are formed of malleable iron , galvanised and framed together , having fillets of beech inserted between the iron to ...
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... building contains three miles lineal of book- cases , eight feet high ; assuming them all to be spaced for the size of the average octavo volume , the entire ranges form twenty - five miles of shelves . The inner surface of the dome is ...
... building contains three miles lineal of book- cases , eight feet high ; assuming them all to be spaced for the size of the average octavo volume , the entire ranges form twenty - five miles of shelves . The inner surface of the dome is ...
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... building , show that both the reading and the sight - seeing public have fully appreciated the boon conferred upon them . The bust of the designer of this noble room and its wondrous adjuncts , executed by the late Baron Marochetti ...
... building , show that both the reading and the sight - seeing public have fully appreciated the boon conferred upon them . The bust of the designer of this noble room and its wondrous adjuncts , executed by the late Baron Marochetti ...
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ability admiration adopted autobiography Baber beautiful bibliographical Brescello British Museum Canterbury 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 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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Página 1 - I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which, as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
Página 1 - When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought...
Página ii - The works touching books are two: first libraries, which are as the shrines where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed...
Página 26 - See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O, that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch that cheek ! Jul.
Página 84 - Society in 1880, and the Honorary Degree of DCL was conferred on him by the University of Oxford in 1881.
Página 42 - They are called the King's Pamphlets; and in value, I believe, the whole world could not parallel them. If you were to take all the collections of works on the Civil War, of which I have ever heard notice, I believe you would not get a set of works so valuable as those.
Página 70 - A Reading-Room, of ample dimensions, might have stood in the centre, and been surrounded on all four sides by galleries for the books, communicating with each other and lighted from the top." A little further on, however, he half retracts his own suggestion, remarking, " So much has been expended on the great quadrangle, that it might seem barbarous to propose filling up the square, as ought to have been originally done." The grand conception of the cupola, by which architectural effect...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...