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Excerpt from Catalogue of the Library of the Athenĉum in Liverpool: To Which Are Prefixed, the Laws of the Institution, and a List of the Proprietors The scale of expense for the building, and for the conduct of the A'rnawu, having been adapted to three hundred and fifty subscribers only - the rooms when completed having been found perfectly adequate to the accommodation qive hundred and the additional one hundred and fifty having o?'ered at such advanced subscriptions - three hundred guineas annually have been added to the income, and nearly 4000l. To the capital of the Institution, beyond what was originally contemplated. By these means the Committee have been enabled to give every convenience, and even elegance to the rooms, and to carry the purchase of books already to an extent, which according to their original plan, could only have been e?'ected in a long series of years. In the present state of their proceedings, they have thought it advisable to publish a catalogue of the books already pur chased. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.