The Library Series
EDITED BY
Dr. RICHARD GARNETT
V
ESSAYS IN LIBRARIANSHIP
AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Library Series
Edited, with Introductions, by Dr. RICHARD GARNETT, late Keeper ofPrinted Books in the British Museum.
I.THE FREE LIBRARY: Its History and Present Condition. By J.J. Ogle, of Bootle Free Library.
II.LIBRARY CONSTRUCTION, ARCHITECTURE, AND FITTINGS. By F. J.Burgoyne, of the Tate Central Library, Brixton. With 141Illustrations.
III.LIBRARY ADMINISTRATION. By J. Macfarlane, of the BritishMuseum.
IV.PRICES OF BOOKS. By Henry B. Wheatley, of the Society ofArts.
V.ESSAYS IN LIBRARIANSHIP AND BIBLIOGRAPHY. By RichardGarnett, C.B., LL.D., late Keeper of Printed Books, BritishMuseum.
ESSAYS IN
LIBRARIANSHIP AND
BIBLIOGRAPHY
BY
RICHARD GARNETT, C.B., LL.D.
LATE KEEPER OF PRINTED BOOKS, BRITISH MUSEUM
George Allen colophon
NEW YORK: FRANCIS P. HARPER
LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN
1899
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PREFACE
The essays collected in this volume are for the most part occasional anddesultory, produced in compliance with requests of friends, or theappeals of editors of bibliographical journals or organisers of librarycongresses, to meet some special emergency, and treating of whateverappropriate matter came readiest to hand. The most important of them,however, though composed at considerable intervals, and devoid of anyconscious relation to each other, are yet united by the presence of apervading idea, which may be defined as the importance of scientificprocesses as auxiliaries to library management.
It seems almost preposterous to speak of typography as a scientificprocess, yet such it is in its relation to the graphic art which itsuperseded as an agent in the production of books. It would be themerest surplusage to advocate the application of printing to any classof manuscript books but one; and that, strangely enough, is the book ofbooks, the catalogue. When it is considered how few of the greatlibraries of Europe have as yet managed to get their catalogues printed,and [vi]in how many the introduction of print is as yet resisted, or besetwith impediments hitherto insurmountable, it is clear that the benefitsof printing may even now be set forth with profit. Fortunately, however,the question is but historical as regards the only library of which thepresent writer can presume to speak. Typography                         
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