British Museum, London (including the departments at South Kensington); Bodleian Library, Oxford; University Library, Cambridge; John Rylands Library, Manchester; Chetham Library, Manchester; London Library; Guildhall Library, London; Sion College, London; Lambeth Palace, London; Trinity College, Dublin; National Library of Ireland; National Library of Scotland, _formerly_ The Advocate’s Library, Edinburgh; University Libraries of Aberdeen, St. Andrews, Edinburgh and Glasgow; Signet Library, Edinburgh; National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. The principal American libraries are:-- Boston Public Library; Chicago Public Library; Harvard University; John Crerar Library, Chicago; Newberry Library, Chicago; Yale University Library, New Haven; New York Public Library; Columbia University, New York; New York State Library, Albany; Public Library, Pittsburg, Philadelphia University; Library of Congress, Washington; University Library, Chicago; Cornell University, Ithaca. The principal European libraries are:-- _Austria._--Royal Library, Vienna; University Library, Vienna. _Belgium._--Royal Library, Brussels; University Library, Ghent. _Denmark._--Royal Library, Copenhagen. _France._--Arsenal Library, Paris; Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; St. Geneviéve, Paris; University Library (Sorbonne), Paris; Mazarin Library, Paris. _Germany._--Royal Library, Berlin; Ducal Library, Darmstadt; Royal Library, Dresden; University Library, Gottingen; University Library, Heidelberg; University Library, Leipzig; Royal Library, Munich; University Library, Munich; University Library, Strassburg; Royal Library, Stuttgart; City Library, Hamburg. _Greece._--University Libraries, Athens. _Holland._--Royal Library, Hague; University Libraries, Leyden and Utrecht; Municipal University, Amsterdam. _Hungary._--Hungarian National Museum, Buda-Pest. _Italy._--National Library, Florence; Mediceo-Laurenzian Library, Florence; Vatican Library, Rome; Victor Emmanuel Library, Rome; Marcian Library, Venice; Ambrosian Library, Milan; National Library, Naples; University Library, Bologna; National Library, Turin. _Norway._--University Library, Oslo. _Portugal._--National Library, Lisbon. _Russia._--Imperial Library, Leningrad; University Library, Moscow. _Spain._--Royal Library, Escorial; National Library, Madrid. _Sweden._--Royal Library, Stockholm; University Library, Upsala. _Switzerland._--Cantonal and State Library, Zurich. SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY. Americana--Article _Libraries_. Axon--Ancient and modern libraries. _In British Almanac Companion, 1876, pp. 103-122._ Blades--On chained libraries. _L. Vol. 1, 1889, pp. 411-416._ Boyd--Public libraries and literary culture in ancient Rome. _1915._ Clark--The care of books: an essay on the development of libraries and their fittings, from the earliest times to the end of the eighteenth century. _C.U.P._, _1901_. Clark--Libraries in the Mediæval and Renaissance Periods. _1894._