Part 1 — Introductory material
Reading edition
V. Suggestions made in 1847 for the Enlargement of the Library of the British Museum; being the facsimile of a Plan inserted in a Pamphlet (written in 1846) entitled ‘Public Libraries in London and Paris’ To face p. 556
VI. Reduced copy of Benjamin Delessert’s ‘Projet d’une Bibliothèque Circulaire,’ 1835 587
VII. General Block-Plan of the British Museum, as it was in 1857 589
VIII. Ground-Plan of the New or ‘Panizzi’ Reading-Room, and of the adjacent Galleries, 1857 590
IX. Interior View of the New Reading-Room, 1857 591
X. Coloured Plan of the Ground-Floor of the British Museum, as it was in 1862. Copied from the Parliamentary Return, No. 97 of Session 1862 To face p. 750
XI. Coloured Plan of the Ground-Floor &c., (as above); together with the Alterations proposed to the Lords of the Treasury by the Trustees of the British Museum; in their Minutes of December, 1861, and January 21st, 1862, and in their Letter to the Treasury of 11th February, 1862. Copied from the same Return To face p. 752
XII. Coloured Plan of the Upper Floor of the British Museum, as it was in 1862. Copied from the same Return To face p. 754
XIII. Coloured Plan of the Upper Floor, &c. (as above); together with the Alterations proposed to the Treasury by the Trustees; in their Minutes of December, 1861, and January, 1862, and in their Letter of 11th February, 1862. Copied from the same Return To face p. 756
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BOOK THE FIRST. EARLY COLLECTORS:—THE GATHERERS OF THE FOUNDATION COLLECTIONS.
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