| Large folio | la. fol. | over | 18 | inches. |
| Folio | fol. | below | 18 | " |
| Small folio | sm. fol. | " | 13 | " |
| Large octavo | la. 8vo. | " | 11 | " |
| Octavo | 8vo. | " | 9 | " |
| Small octavo | sm. 8vo. | " | 8 | " |
| Duodecimo | 12mo. | " | 8 | " |
| Decimo octavo | 18mo. | is | 6 | " |
| Minimo | mo. | below | 6 | " |
| Large quarto | la. 4to. | " | 15 | " |
| Quarto | 4to. | " | 11 | " |
| Small quarto | sm. 4to. | " | 8 | " |
[46] Edwards, Memoirs of Libraries, ii., 739.
[47] Blades, Enemies of Books.
[48] Edwards, ii., 737.
[50] The Story of my House.
[51] These notices of the Hawarden Library may be compared with the accounts given in Dennistoun's Dukes of Urbino of a great Florentine library:—
'Adjoining (the main library) was a study, fitted up with inlaid and gilded panelling, beneath which . . . . were depicted Minerva with her ægis, Apollo with his lyre, and the nine muses, with their appropriate symbols. A similar small study was fitted up immediately over this one, set round with armchairs encircling a table, all mosaicked with tarsia, . . . while in each compartment of the panelling was the portrait of some famous author, and an appropriate distich. . . . To the right and left of the carriage entrance into the great courtyard are two handsome saloons, each about forty-five feet by twenty-two, and twenty-three in height. That on the left contained the famous library of MS. collected by Count Federigo; the corresponding one received the printed books which, gradually purchased by successive dukes, became, under the last sovereign a copious collection. Baldi, in his description of the palace, printed in Bianchini's works, dwells on the judicious adaptation of the former, its windows set high against the northern sky, admitting a subdued and steady light which invited to study; its air cool in summer, temperate in winter; its walls conveniently sheltered. . . . .'
[52] Nineteenth Century, March, 1890.
[53] Library Assoc. Report, 1878, p. 75.