Produced by KD Weeks, MWS, Adrian Mastronardi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transcriber’s Note: This version of the text cannot represent certain typographical effects. Italics are delimited with the ‘_’ character as _italic_. A carat ‘^’ is used to denote a superscripted characters. Where multiple characters are subscripted, they are delimited by curly braces (e.g. le 1^{er} Septembre). Most footnotes were denoted with an asterisk, although several notes to a single letter, beginning on p. 250, are assigned sequential numbers. All notes have been resequenced, from A to P, and moved to directly follow the paragraphs where they are referenced. Illustrations have been moved slightly in the text break. Note that they had no captions, expecting the reader to identify the subjects from the context. In this text the position of the illustration is indicated as [Illustration: <subject>]. There are decorative images at each chapter break, and as footers at the end of several chapters and appear simply as [Illustration]. Minor errors, attributable to the printer, have been corrected. Please see the transcriber’s note at the end of this text for details regarding the handling of any textual issues encountered during its preparation. THE LIFE OF SIR ANTHONY PANIZZI, K.C.B. VOL. I. PUBLISHERS’ NOTE. _The third volume by_ MR. HENRY STEVENS, _mentioned on the title-page, is in preparation, and will probably be issued some time this year_. _It will be sold separately or with the two volumes of_ MR. FAGAN, _as purchasers may desire._ [Illustration: Sir Anthony Panizzi] THE LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF SIR ANTHONY PANIZZI KCB LATE PRINCIPAL LIBRARIAN OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM SENATOR OF ITALY ETC BY LOUIS FAGAN OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS BRITISH MUSEUM IN TWO VOLUMES [Illustration] AUTHORISED AMERICAN EDITION TO WHICH IS APPENDED A THIRD VOLUME CONTAINING TWENTY YEARS PERSONAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REMINISCENCES OF PANIZZI AND THE BRITISH MUSEUM 1845-1865 BY HENRY STEVENS OF VERMONT FSA MA ETC [Illustration: Bibliography The Tree of Knowledge] VOLUME I BOSTON: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND COMPANY RIVERSIDE CAMBRIDGE & ASTOR PLACE NEW-YORK MdcccLxxxi