Travel and Tourism in Britain, 1700–1914 Vol 3 by Susan Barton Allan Brodie

Author:Susan Barton, Allan Brodie [Susan Barton, Allan Brodie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, General
ISBN: 9781000559842
Google: fhhREAAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-12-16T02:48:44+00:00

In what I am now about to introduce, technical words, and terms of art, often I shall endeavour to be intelligible / used out of vanity and ostentation. and useful; have therefore avoided all

In the first place, I would recommend to the person intending to keep a library, either in town or country, to provide themselves with a catalogue of books in sheets, from each of the wholesale booksellers who publish one, by which means they will be able to make a good selection of proper books for their purpose.

For instance, let us suppose a library to consist of fifteen hundred volumes, which should be well chosen / from different subjects, in the following proportion:

60 volumes of History.

60 - of Divinity.

30 - of Lives.

20 - of Voyages.

20 - of Travels.

30 - of Poetry.

20 - of Plays.

1050 - of Novels.7

130 - of Romances.

10 - of Anecdotes.

40 - of Tales.

30 - of Arts and Sciences.

1500

A knowledge of properly choosing this selection, may easily be obtained / by enquiry, and when purchased, should be put into the hands of a good binder, to be half bound uniform, and uncut; – my reason for advising they should be uncut, must be obvious to every person in the trade, but my wish here is to inform the public in general.

Many valuable publications are put in boards, or half bound, which at a future time, the purchaser may want to put into better binding, or new covers, then if the edges are cut and coloured, the book will have every appearance of being new.

In a populous town, and for a / larger library, a much greater number of volumes will be required, which in due proportion, may be added to the before mentioned list.

The large library will be expected to take in (for the accommodation of their readers) the Reviews, Magazines, and some of the Newspapers, which the lesser library, in a small community, with fewer readers, cannot afford to do, nor will it be expected: making out a catalogue for the use of the subscribers, is a material consideration; it is no easy task, and should be executed with care, so / that it may be clearly understood by the meanest capacity.

I have seen many different catalogues, some of them so confused, that the librarian himself has hardly known where to look for any particular work.

To large libraries I would recommend the following mode: the books on different subjects should be alphabetically arranged by themselves, and classed under their proper heads; the first book in the catalogue should be numbered one, and a similar number pasted on the back of the book, to correspond with the catalogue, and / so on in succeeding numbers, till the whole of the books are gone through, when the last number in the catalogue will be the number of volumes you have for circulation.

In the lesser library, the catalogue should be made alphabetically, but as it will be much smaller, the various subjects need not be classed under different heads, but promiscuously placed together under the appropriate letter.

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