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MUSEUMS, LIBRARIES,

AND

PICTURE GALLERIES,

Public and Private;

THEIR ESTABLISHMENT, FORMATION, ARRANGEMENT, AND

ARCHITECTURAL CONSTRUCTION.

TO WHICH IS APPENDED

THE PUBLIC LIBRARIES ACT, 1850,

AND

REMARKS ON ITS ADOPTION BY MECHANICS AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC

INSTITUTIONS;

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.

BY

JOHN W. PAPWORTH,

FELLOW OF THE ROYAL INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS; ETC. ETC.

AND

WYATT PAPWORTH,

ARCHITECT; HON. SEC. OF THE ARCHITECTURAL PUBLICATION SOCIETY; AND HON. MEMBER
OF THE YORKSHIRE ARCHITECTURAL SOCIETY.

"It is impossible to disguise from ourselves the paramount importance
that-public opinion should be rightly informed, rightly instructed, and
rightly directed."-BISHOP OF MANCHESTER.

THE AUTHORS RESERVE TO THEMSELVES THE RIGHT OF TRANSLATION IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES.

LONDON:

CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193, PICCADILLY.

M.DCCC.LIII.