The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-08-01
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NEHy SYSTEM 1T r JRINS ONS LIBRARY,
No. IO5 Baltimore ,treet BaltDeTe'


Eos. ROBINSON. LIBRARIAN, after upwards o.
- twenty-five years xperience has been InuueeJ y
establish He0 system his extensive Cfc,oa.as -
brary, which he hopes will m ct with general appo e
ton and encouragemsnt--Tle most prominent TIA
| lures
l. The great reduction in the price of Reading, and
the large supply of Books Families and Societies;
2 The encouragement to form BOOK 'ocleues WLeie
it Is impossible TO procure supply oil BOOKS except py
purchase
g. Two or more families residing in the same neigh
1 borhood are allowed to join in one suDscnpuoh'
A. Catalogues and boxes for country supplies are hr
nished without charge.
| s. Book Societies can be formed and supplied with
any number of Books according to tile number Oh
members.
In order give idea of the importance to the
public OF the new system Of accommodation, he pro-
petOT begs state, that his Library at present con
siss of nearly fifteen thousand volumes IN histotles,
Sacred PrOfane and Natural; Voyages lraVels, DIoI
ply, Moral and Political Philosophy; uie IUpIi"i d.
ences; Divinity, Bellies Letters; Novels, iales, NJ
mances the Drama, sc. That the new BOOKS anu nc"
Magazines and Reviews, published annually ana Iegu[
larry added consist of from 3to 400 volumes-to al VI
which subscribers can have immediate access.-Ihe
Library alse contains selection in French OF e Des'
authors, and some few of the best Italian authors.
The terms below given full and sallsiactory51fhd
parlIes remote distance from Baltimore can apnnee
commence subscribing without the delay ana tIouple
attending correspondence. Inc hIst supply VI poo
the Librarian will take upon himself 10 "rh, upon re-
ceving intination of the kind of works desrca, ana
forward itat once with the catalogue from WHICH iu
ture supplies be selected. ,.,.,,
The general subscription is TEN DOLLAko lne
year. which entities the subscriber to sixteen volumes
at a tme-one fourth in new Books; three-fourtis,
Books chosen from the Catalogue.-A magazine Vi
Review may be included in the supply
Two ormOre fomies in the same neighborhood are
allowed to join in the above Subscription, by paying Ill
addition Two Dollars for each extra family. Inc con
dOns and regulations the same as those Tor soeie
ties particulanzed below
TERMS FOR BOOK SOCIETIES.
Societies composed of SIX members, paying FItteeh
Dollars the year. entitled to Twenty volumes III
their possession at Il time.
Societies composed oftwelve members, paying TWEEN
tyiour Dollars the year are entitled 10 I"ehty-sN w
| Tunes III Their possession at a time.
Societies composed of eighteen members, paying
Thirty Dollars the year, entitled TO Thirty SIX No-
lumes in their possession at a time.
{Gy- Societies. however large, are supplied at the
| same ratio. 80
One fourth of the collection be publications,
and three fourts Books selected from the Catalogue
which be exchanged together or III part (profideu
parts of not retaned) at whatever Intervals OIL
time the Society think proper.
Magazines and Reviews can be included IN the sup
ply, in number as follows: bree for eighteen mem
ber5-two for twelve meInbers-one for SIX members
CONDITIONS AND REGULATIONS.
l. The names of the members forming the Soclety
to be sent 10 the Library, with the address also o.
TO be gwen and the books forwarded to and from the
Library, on behalf of the Society.
g The subscriptions to be paid in advance at the time
of subscribing can be sent by post accompanied with
list of the Books required and directions how TO for
ward them.
g. The expense of carriage to and from the Library,
postage &C. be betrayed by the Society-but the
use of boxes and Catalogues are free of expense.
f. If the Society should dean Books beyond the Tune
subscribed for, the subscription must be paid u they
AIRY returned.
s. Members are not allowed, any account, to lend
books to any person that is not a member ~ ~