The pilot and transcript. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1840-1841, 1840-08-03
TO BOOK SOCIETIES AND FAMILIES
IN TOWN AND COUNTRY. -
NEW SYSTEM 1T ROBINS ON'S LIbR'9hf'
No IO3. Baltimore tTeet BaItiBsoTe-


| HOs. ROBINSON. LIBRARIAN, after upwards Of
- twenty-five years Experience, mas Deeh i1uucII
establish system at his extensive CrcuidIhs -
brary, which he hopes will meet with generat aP0eo
ton and encouragement-The most prominent iea-
lures are:
l. The great reduction in the price of Reading, and
the large supply of Books to Families and Socieues;
3 The encouragement TO form BOOK SoSletles Wi!cIe
II Is impossible TO procure supply Oh booNs eeP W
purchase.
3. Two or more families residing in the same neigh
b0rhood are allowed to join in one suDscfpuoh' =
f. Catalogues and boxes for country supplies are lur-
nshed without charge. 50
5. Book Societies can be formed and supplied with
any number OF Books according 10 ule hui"ei vi
members.
In order give some idea of the Importance to the
public OF the new system of accommodation, he pro-
petor begs to state, that his Library at present con-
sists OF nearly fifteen thousand volumes IN HISTORIES
Sacred, PT0fane and Natural Voyages, lraVes, nogt
ply, Moral and Political Philosophy ihe TT Ci d.
ences; Divinity, Belles-Letters; Novels iaes, no
mances; the Drama sc. That the new BOOKS anu ne"
Magazines and Reviews, published annually ana Iegu
larry added, consist of from to 400 vouneS-o al VI
which subscribers can have immediate aceess.-Ihe
Library also contains selecusn in French OF he Dest
authors and some few of the best Italian authors.
The terms below given full and Satisfactory, udt
pares at remote distance from Baltimore can at once
commence subscribing without the delay and uoupe
attending correspondence. Inc lrst supply Vi nooH
the Librarian will take upon himself 10 orh upon re-
ceivng intimatOn of the kind of works desirea ana
forward il at once with the catalogue from whch III
ture supplies can be selected. =. --.,,,,x,
The General snbscriotion is TEN DOLLARS the
year which entities the subscriber sixteen volumes
at tme-oHe fourth in new Books; three iouruls,
Books chosen from the Cataogue.-A haga|ihe vi
Review may be included in the supply
Two or more fomilies in the same neghborhood are
allowed to join in the above Subscription, by paying III
addition Two Dollars for each extra family The con-
ditons and regulations the those Tor socle-
ties particulariZed below.
TERMS FOR BOOK SOCIETIES.
Societies composed Of SIX members paying fiiteeh
Dollars the year, entitled to Twenty volumes Ill
their possession at a time
Societies composed oftwelve members, paying TWEEN
ty-fou Dollars the year entitled to Tweny-sK No-
lumes in their possession at a time
Societies composed of eighteen members, paying
Thirty Dollars the year. entitled TO Ibirty- SIX No-
umes in their possession al a time
90. Societies. however large, are supplied al the
same ratio.
One fourth Of the collection can be new publications,
and three fourths Books selected from the Catalogue
which can be exchanged together in part (provlded
parts of retaned, at whatever Intervals OF
time the Society think proper
Magazines and Reviews can be included IN Inc sup
ply in number as follows three for eighteen mem
bers-twO for twelve membeTs-One for SIX members
CONDITIONS AND REGULATIONS.
l. The names of the members forming the Soclety
are TO be sent the Library, with the address also OF
one member in whose name all orders for supplies are
to given and the books forwarded TO and from he
Library, on behalf of the Society.
q The subscription, be paid in advance at the uHe
of subscribing be sent by post, accompanied WIN
list of the Books required, and directions how TO ior
ward them.
g. The expense of carriage to and from the Library,
postage, &C. is be betrayed By the Socletybut the
use Of boxes and Catalogues are free of expense
d. If the Society should detain Books beyond te tne
subscribed for the subscription must be paid till they
AIRY returned.
5. Members are not allowed, any account TO lend
books to any person that is not member U 80