The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-08-21
TO BOOK sOCIETIEs AND FAMILIES
IN TOWN AND COUNTRY.
NEW SYSTEM 1T ROBINS ON'S Library
No. l05, Baltimore treet Baltimore.

No. l0e, Baltimore treet Baltimore
81 OS. ROBINSON, LIBRARIAN, after upwards Of
- twenty-five years experiences has been induced to
establish ne,v system at his extensive Circulating Ia
brary, which he hopes will meet with general approba-
ton and encouragement.-The most prominent fea
lures
l. The great reduction in the price of Reading and
the large supply OF Books to Families and Societies.
p heencolIragement 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
borhood are allowed to join in one subscription
a. Catalogues and boxes for country supplies are fur
s. Book Societies can be formed and supplied with
any number of Books according to the humber of
members.
In order to give some idea of the importance TO the
public OF the system of accommodation, the pre-
petor bess TO state, that his Library at present con-
slsts OF nearly fifteen thousand volumes IN HstoTes
Sacred Profane and Naural Voyages, Travels, Bogra
ply, Moral and Political Philosophy; the Popular Sci
ences; Divinity, Bees-I.etters; Novels, Tales, Ro-
mances; the DTama SSc. That the new Books and new
Magazines and Reviews, published annually and regu
larry added, consist OF from Ito 400 volumes-o all Of
which subscribers can have immediate aecess.-The
Library also contains selection in French of the best
authors, and some few of the best Italian authors.
The terms below given full and satisfactory, tha
parties at remote distance from Baltimore once
commence subscribing without the delay and trouble
attending correspondence. The first supply of Books
the Librarian will take upon himself to form, upon
ceivng intimation Of the kind OF works desirea and
forward itat once, with the catalogue, from which fa-
ture supplies can be selected.
The general subscription is TEN DOLLARS the
year. which entities the subscriber TO sixteen volumes
nj a tme-one fourth in new Books; three ourths,
Books chosen from the Catalogue.-A Magazine or
Review may be included in the supply.
Two ormore fomilies in the same nelglnornood arc
allowed to join in the above Subscription by paying m
addition Two Dollars for each extra family Inc con-
dtions and regulations the same as those Tor soce
tics partieuarized below.
Societies composed of SIX members, paying Fliteen
Dollars the YEAR are entitled TO Twenty Volumes IN
Ger possession at Il time
Societies composed oftwelve members, paying TWEEN
ty-four Dollars the year entitled TO Twenty-sx No
lIimes in their possession at a time.
Societies composed Of eighteen Hlenloefs, peJnis
Thirty Dollars the year, entitled TO Thirty SIX po-
lumes in their possession at time.
90 Societies, however large, are supplied at the
same ratio.
One fourth of the collection can be new publications,
and three fourts Books selected from the Catalogue
whichcan be exchanged together in part (provded
parts retainedl at whatever Intervals Of
time the Society think proper.
Magazines and Reviews can be included IN the sup
ply in number as follows I hree fog eighteen mem
bers-two for twelve members-one for six members
CONDITIONS AND REGULATIONS.
l. The names of the members forming the society
be sent TO the Library, with the address also Oh
one member in whose aIl orders for supplies are
to be given, and the books forwarded to and from the
Library on behalf of the Society
. The subscription, he paid in advance al the time
of subscribing can be 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 b. betrayed BY the Soclety-out the
use OF boxes and Catalogues are free of expense
A. If the Society should detan Books beyond the ine
subscribed for the subscription must be paid I'LL they
AIRY returned.
s. Members are not allowed, any account, to lend
b oOks 10 any person that is not a member. ~ ~