Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, Part 2 of 2: With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870.Edwards, Edward
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Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, Part 2 of 2: With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870.
Edwards, Edward
Book collectors -- Great Britain; British Museum
Then follow various details of minor consequence; to which succeed an
enumeration of the additional space gained for the Collections of
Printed Books, Manuscripts, Prints and Drawings, Antiquities, Coins and
Medals, as well as for offices, store-rooms, bookbinders’ shops, &c., by
the proposed alterations, as respects each of the several Departments of
Printed Books, Manuscripts, and Antiquities; and a summary of the whole,
from which it appears that the additional space gained by the Department
of Printed Books amounts to an area of seventeen thousand eight hundred
and three square feet; that the additional space gained by the
Department of Antiquities amounts to sixty-seven thousand six hundred
and ninety-two square feet; and, finally, that the additional space
gained by the Department of Manuscripts amounts to three thousand four
hundred and thirty square feet.
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ RECAPITULATION. │
├───────────────────────────────┬───────┬─────────┬──────────┬────────┤
│ │Present│Proposed │ Proposed │Proposed│
│ │Space. │Addition.│Deduction.│ Total. │
├───────────────────────────────┼───────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┤
│ PRINTED BOOKS. │ │ │ │ │
│Basement │ 33,998│ 14,667│ │ 48,665│
│Ground floor │ 83,748│ │ 2,070│ 81,678│
│Upper floor │ │ 5,206│ │ 5,206│
├───────────────────────────────┼───────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┤
│ │117,746│ 19,873│ 2,070│ 135,549│
├───────────────────────────────┼───────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┤
│ MANUSCRIPTS. │ │ │ │ │
│Basement │ 210│ 1,360│ │ 1,570│
│Ground floor │ 12,968│ 2,070│ │ 15,038│
├───────────────────────────────┼───────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┤
│ │ 13,178│ 3,430│ │ 16,608│
├───────────────────────────────┼───────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┤
│ ANTIQUITIES. │ │ │ │ │
│Basement │ 33,868│ 16,036│ 6,767│ 43,137│
│Ground floor │ 39,334│ 13,775│ │ 53,109│
│Upper floor 21,532│ │ │ │ │
│ Less Coins and Medals 2,950│ │ │ │ │
│ ——————│ 18,582│ 44,648│ │ 63,230│
├───────────────────────────────┼───────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┤
│ │ 91,784│ 74,459│ 6,767│ 159,476│
├───────────────────────────────┼───────┼─────────┼──────────┼────────┤
│ COINS AND MEDALS. │ │ │ │ │
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