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On Books and the Housing of Them by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone
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7- See Libraries and the Founders of Libraries, by
B. Edwards, 1864, p. 5. Hallam, Lit. Europe.

8- Hor. Ep. II. i. 270; Persius, i. 48; Martial, iv. lxxxvii. 8.

9- Edwards.

10- Rouard, Notice sur la Bibliotheque d'Aix, p. 40.
Quoted in Edwards, p. 34.

11- The Director of the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris,
which I suppose still to be the first library in the
world, in doing for me most graciously the honors of
that noble establishment, informed me that they full-bound
annually a few scores of volumes, while they
half-bound about twelve hundred. For all the rest
they had to be contented with a lower provision. And
France raises the largest revenue in the world.

12- Note in illustration. Let us suppose a room 28 feet
by 10, and a little over 9 feet high. Divide this
longitudinally for a passage 4 feet wide. Let the passage
project 12 to 18 inches at each end beyond the line of
the wall. Let the passage ends be entirely given to
either window or glass door. Twenty-four pairs of
trams run across the room. On them are placed 56
bookcases, divided by the passage, reaching to the
ceiling, each 3 feet broad, 12 inches deep, and separated
from its neighbors by an interval of 2 inches,
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