The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-07-31
TO BOOK SOCIETIES AND FAMILIES,
IN TOWN AND COUNTRY.
NEUr SYSTEM 1T ROBINS ON'S LIBRARY,
No. IO8, Baltimore tTeet BdltigBoTe.

TOs. ROBINSON, LIBRARIAN, after upwards 0
80 twenty-five years experience, has been induced
establish ielo system at his extensive Circulating ~
braTy which he hopes will meet with general aproDa
tion ana encouragement.-Ihe most prominent &c"
lures are:
l. The great reduction in the price of Reading ant
the large supply Of Books to Families and SocIeues;
| 2 The encouragement To form Book Societies where
is impossible to procure supply of Books except BY
purchase.
g. Two or more families residing in the same neigh
DoIhood are allowed to join in one subscription.
a. Catalogues and boxes for country supplies are iur-
nished without charge
s. Book Societies can be formed and supplied with
any number of Books according TO the number OIL
members
In order to give idea of the importance TO the
public Of the system of accommodation, the pre-
petoT begs to state, that his Library at present con
slsts OF nearly fifteen thousand volumes in HISTORIES
sacred Prolane and NauTal Voyages, Travels, Blogra
ply, Moral and Political Philosophy; the Popular Sci
enees Divinity Belles-Letters; Novels, Tales, no
mances; the Drama, &c. That the new Books and new
magazines and Reviews, published annually ana regu-
larry AIDED, consist of from to 400 Volumes-o all Oh
which subscribers have immediate access.-Ihe
Library also contains selection in French of the best
authors, and some ewof the best Italian authors.
The terms below given full and satisfactory, that
parties at remote distance from Baltimore can at once
commence subscribing without the delay and trouble
attending correspondence The first supply of Books
the Librarian will take upon himself to form upon re-
ceving intimation of the kind of works DESIRED and
forward itat once with the catalogue, from which flu
ture supplies can be selected.
TERMS OF SUPPLYING A SINGLE FAMILY.
The general subscription is TEN DOLLARS the
year, which entities the subscriber TO sixteen volumes
at a time-one fourth in new Books; three fourths
Books chosen from the CatalOgue.-A Magazine or
Review may be included in the supply
Two ormore fomiies in the same neighborhood are
allowed to join in the above Subscription by paying IN
addition Two Dollars for each extra family. The con-
dions and regulations the those for socie-
tics particulaTiZed below.
TERMS FOR BOOK SOCIETIES.
Societies composed Of members, paying Fifteen
Dollars the year, are entitled to Twenty Volumes in
their possession at a time.
Societies composed of twelve members, paying twcnr
tyfour Dollars the year entitled Twentysix Vo
Tunes in their possession at time.
Societies composed of eighteen members, paying
Thirty Dollars the year, entitled to Thinysx Vo
lumes in their possession at time.
QC- Societies, however large, are supplied at the
saG;e ratio.
One fourth of the collection can be new publications.
and three ourths Books selected from the Catalogue
which can be exchanged together in part provided
phi. Of sets are not reained0 at whatever intervals of
time the Society think proper,
Magazines and Reviews can be included in the sup
ply, in number as follows: Three for eighteen mem
bers-two for twelve members-one for six members
CONDITIONS AND REGULATIONS.
/. The names of the members forming the Society
are TO be sent 10 the Library, with the address also Of
one member in whose name all orders for supplies
to be given, and the books forwarded TO and from the
Library, on behalf of the Society.
g The subscription, to be paid in advance ut 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., is be betrayed by the Socety-bu the
use of boxes and Catalogues are free of expense.
A. IL the Society should detan Books beyond the time
subscribed for, the subscription must be paid till they
airy returned.
s. Members are not allowed, any account, to lend
books TO any person that is not member. jy 80