V. SUGGESTIONS MADE IN 1847 FOR THE ENLARGEMENT OF THE LIBRARY OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM; being the facsimile of a Plan inserted in a Pamphlet (written in 1846) entitled ‘_Public Libraries _To face p._ in London and Paris_’ 556 VI. REDUCED COPY OF BENJAMIN DELESSERT’S ‘_PROJET D’UNE BIBLIOTHÈQUE CIRCULAIRE_,’ 1835 587 VII. GENERAL BLOCK-PLAN OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, as it was in 1857 589 VIII. GROUND-PLAN OF THE NEW OR ‘PANIZZI’ READING-ROOM, and of the adjacent Galleries, 1857 590 IX. INTERIOR VIEW OF THE NEW READING-ROOM, 1857 591 X. COLOURED PLAN OF THE GROUND-FLOOR OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, as it was in 1862. _Copied from the _To face p._ Parliamentary Return, No. 97 of Session 1862_ 750 XI. COLOURED PLAN OF THE GROUND-FLOOR &C., (as above); TOGETHER WITH THE ALTERATIONS PROPOSED TO THE LORDS OF THE TREASURY BY THE TRUSTEES OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM; in their Minutes of December, 1861, and January 21st, 1862, and in their Letter to the Treasury of 11th February, _To face p._ 1862. _Copied from the same Return_ 752 XII. COLOURED PLAN OF THE UPPER FLOOR OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, as it was in 1862. _Copied from the _To face p._ same Return_ 754 XIII. COLOURED PLAN OF THE UPPER FLOOR, &C. (as above); TOGETHER WITH THE ALTERATIONS PROPOSED TO THE TREASURY BY THE TRUSTEES; in their Minutes of December, 1861, and January, 1862, and in their Letter of 11th February, 1862. _Copied from the _To face p._ same Return_ 756 BOOK THE FIRST. _EARLY COLLECTORS:—THE GATHERERS OF THE FOUNDATION COLLECTIONS._ _CONTENTS OF BOOK I._ CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. II. THE FOUNDER OF THE COTTONIAN LIBRARY. III. THE COLLECTORS AND AUGMENTORS OF THE OLD ROYAL AND PUBLIC LIBRARY AT ST. JAMES’. IV. THE COLLECTOR OF THE ARUNDELIAN MSS. V. THE COLLECTOR OF THE HARLEIAN MANUSCRIPTS. VI. THE FOUNDERS OF THE SLOANE MUSEUM.