Copy 1, Volume 1

A catalogue of the Library of the London Institution systematically classed / Preceded by an historical and bibliographical account of the establishment. [By W. Upcott, R. Thomson, and E.W. Brayley].

  • London Institution. Library
Date:
[1835-1852]
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Credit: A catalogue of the Library of the London Institution systematically classed / Preceded by an historical and bibliographical account of the establishment. [By W. Upcott, R. Thomson, and E.W. Brayley]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    terval, the subscriptions increased to nearly £50,000; and the Report read to the meeting by Mr. Hibbert stated, that upwards of 650 persons had already set down their names at 75 guineas each, in addition to the Life-subscribers. A proposal was then made to close the subscription, but it was at length agreed to keep the list open during the meeting; before the termination of which the amount of the subscribed sums was understood to be £60,000. At the same time a resolution was unanimously passed, that a petition should be presented to the King for a Charter of Incorporation; and a Committee of Twenty-one Managers was appointed for the preparation of the outline of a Plan for the Establishment, to be approved by the Proprietors. A General Meeting for taking into consideration the Laws and Regulations proper to be adopted for the Institution, was held at the London Tavern, on Thursday, October 17th, 1805. The first printed Report of the Temporary Committee of Management, addressed to the First Anniversary Meeting of the Proprietors, is dated April 24th, 1806; and it states that two active Sub-Committees had been elected for executing the arrangements decided upon *. one of which had been engaged in procuring temporary accommodations, and in conducting the general affairs of the Institution ; and the other in the forma¬ tion of a Library. At this time the number of Proprietors amounted to 950, and the sums subscribed to £76,710 3.9. 1(M. with about £2000 more then due for interest; of which £6,727 8s. 6d. had been expended for books and maps, and nearly 8000 volumes were then in the Library. From even the original establishment of the London Institution, the Managers con¬ templated the erection of an edifice especially adapted to its magnitude and peculiar intentions ; with which view, it is ob¬ served in the Report, they have addressed themselves to the liberality of the Corporation of the City of London, for a grant of the whole, or of some considerable part, of the site of Black- well Hall, in King street, Cheapside. The premises which they first engaged were, therefore, to be considered as entirely temporary ; and designed to be occupied only until a more convenient and permanent situation could be provided. They consisted of that spacious and stately mansion on the eastern side ©f the Old Jewry in Cheapside, nearly opposite to Frederick’s j>]a(,c_erected by Sir Robert Clayton for keeping his Shrievalty
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