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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... contains some of the most beautiful volumes that ever came from the printing press ; and among them are rare tomes bound by Grollier , and not a few were from the hand of Roger Paine , whose cunning fingers seem to have been formed 24 A ...
... contains some of the most beautiful volumes that ever came from the printing press ; and among them are rare tomes bound by Grollier , and not a few were from the hand of Roger Paine , whose cunning fingers seem to have been formed 24 A ...
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... contains among its choicest varieties an exquisitely beautiful little volume of Petrarch's Sonnets , printed at Venice , by Aldus , in 1501. It is printed on vellum of the softest texture , and is remarkable , not only as the first ...
... contains among its choicest varieties an exquisitely beautiful little volume of Petrarch's Sonnets , printed at Venice , by Aldus , in 1501. It is printed on vellum of the softest texture , and is remarkable , not only as the first ...
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... contains some of the very rarest editions of the Bible , for which " Book of books " Mr. Grenville had the greatest reverence , and made it , above all others , the volume of his daily counsel . Rare editions of the Latin classics ...
... contains some of the very rarest editions of the Bible , for which " Book of books " Mr. Grenville had the greatest reverence , and made it , above all others , the volume of his daily counsel . Rare editions of the Latin classics ...
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... containing from ten to a dozen separate tracts , was not gone over by a Museum official , and those relating to Cromwell selected for him , so that he could at once set to work , and make the necessary extracts required for his work ...
... containing from ten to a dozen separate tracts , was not gone over by a Museum official , and those relating to Cromwell selected for him , so that he could at once set to work , and make the necessary extracts required for his work ...
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... contain frequent proofs of the acquirements and abilities , the manifestation of which in sub- ordinate office led to Mr. Panizzi's promotion to that which he now holds under circumstances which , in our opinion , founded on documentary ...
... contain frequent proofs of the acquirements and abilities , the manifestation of which in sub- ordinate office led to Mr. Panizzi's promotion to that which he now holds under circumstances which , in our opinion , founded on documentary ...
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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...