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British Museum. A short guide to that portion of the library of printed books now open to the public

by Antonio Panizzi

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">12mo. pp. 33. Signatures: A12 B5.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">A 33-page catalogue of the glass-case display at the British Museum, signed at the end by Antonio Panizzi, who presumably also mounted the exhibition. John Payne Collier, who had a score to settle with Panizzi, anonymously savaged the exhibition itself, the choice of materials, and the descriptions in the catalogue in the Athenaeum of 31 May 1851, pp. 580-581. See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, pp. 571-572.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /><

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