THE BRITISH MUSEUM LIBRARY CLASSIC REPRINT

ISBN: 9781330844434 Géneros: HD Sinópsis: Excerpt from The British Museum LibraryThis essay traverses some of the ground covered by Edwardss Lives of tin Founders of tile Brztzirz Museum and the Readingroom manuals of Sims and Nichols all long out of print But it has its own field and adds a little here and there I venture to hope to the published history of our national library It is not intended as a guide to the Reading room Lists of some of the official catalogues and other publications that form so distinguished a part of the work of the British Museum are appended for the convenience of students in general The bibliography indicates the main sources to which I am indebted for materialAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books Find more at wwwforgottenbookscomThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work Forgotten Books uses stateoftheart technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works