SOME BOOK-HUNTERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 161 LIBRARIANSHIP IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 174 THE MANUFACTURE OF FINE PAPER IN ENGLAND IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 191 ON SOME COLOPHONS OF THE EARLY PRINTERS 197 ON THE SYSTEM OF CLASSIFYING BOOKS ON THE SHELVES FOLLOWED AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM 210 SUBJECT-INDEXES TO TRANSACTIONS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES 225 PHOTOGRAPHY IN PUBLIC LIBRARIES 234 THE TELEGRAPH IN THE LIBRARY 253 ON THE PROTECTION OF LIBRARIES FROM FIRE 258 THE SLIDING-PRESS AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM 262 ON THE PROVISION OF ADDITIONAL SPACE IN LIBRARIES 272 PREFACE TO BLADES' "ENEMIES OF BOOKS" 283 SIR ANTHONY PANIZZI, K.C.B. 288 THE LATE JOHN WINTER JONES, V.P.S.A. 304 THE LATE HENRY STEVENS, F.S.A. 325 THE LATE SIR EDWARD A. BOND, K.C.B. 335 INDEX 341 ESSAYS IN LIBRARIANSHIP AND BIBLIOGRAPHY ADDRESS TO THE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION[1:1] There are times in the lives of institutions as well as individuals when retrospect is a good thing; when it is desirable to look back and see how far one has travelled, and by what road; whether the path of progress has always been in the right direction; whether it may not have been sometimes unnecessarily devious; whether valuable things may not have been dropped or omitted, in quest of which it may be desirable to travel back; whether, on the other hand, the journey may not have been fertile in glad surprises, and have led to acquisitions and discoveries of which, at starting, one entertained no notion. The interval of sixteen years which has elapsed since the first meeting of this Association at London, suggests that such a time may well have arrived in its history. There is yet another reason why the present meeting invites to retrospection. We can look back in every sense of the term. All our past is behind us in a physical as well as in an intellectual sense. We are as far north as ever we can go. There are, I rejoice to think, British libraries and librarians even farther north than Aberdeen, but it is almost safe to predict that there never will be congresses. We are actually farther north than Moscow, almost as far as St. Petersburg. Looking back in imagination we can see the map of Great Britain and Ireland—and we must not forget France—dotted over with the places of our meetings, all alike conspicuous by the cordiality of our