Animadversions on the library and catalogues of the British Museum. A reply to Mr. Panizzi's statement; and a correspondence with that officer and the Trustees.
- Nicholas Harris Nicolas
- Date:
- 1846
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Animadversions on the library and catalogues of the British Museum. A reply to Mr. Panizzi's statement; and a correspondence with that officer and the Trustees. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.
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![to bring the subject before the Public, T thouglit it advisable to submit it for Mr. Panizzi’s consi- deration. If, how^ever, I did not expect a satis- factory result, I certainly did not calculate upon being assailed with personal abuse in a pamphlet by a salaried Officer of a Public Institution, because I had presumed to complain of inattention in his department. One of the five books for which I applied, and which has caused the present discussion, was “ Bur- chett’s Complete Plistory of the most remarkable Transactions at Sea, from the earliest accounts of time to the conclusion of the War with France, a folio volume, printed in London in 1720, and well-known to every bookseller, and to most literary men, as “ Burchett’s History of Transactions at Sea.” Having found the title of that work in the Catalogue, I looked carefully for that only which, under Mr. Panizzi’s rules, I considered necessary, besides its popular title — viz., the Press-Mark, supposing that as the Press-Mark is said to identify every volume, it would of itself be sufficient to j)ro- cure it, even without the title. To “ size,” “ place,” and “ date,” I paid little attention; and thinking them immaterial, I not unfrequently omitted to write them on the tickets. In this instance I may have been misled on those points by the entry imme- diately above it in the Catalogue; and the difficulty of avoiding so trifling an error in the ])resent state of the Catalogues in the Library is painfully known to all who are compelled to use them. The ticket was thus filled up :—](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28038988_0049.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
