PANIZZI, Anthony, Sir (1797-1879). An extensive collection of pamphlets, offprints, extracts, and broadsides collected by Sir Anthony Panizzi, Chief Librarian of the British Museum Library. Comprising 276 items in 27 volumes, 1830-1864, most in English and Italian, MANY PRESENTATION COPIES, from associates such as CHARLES BABBAGE, WILLIAM GLADSTONE, GIUSEPPE MAZZINI, CHARLES ELIOT NORTON, JAMES DE ROTHSCHILD, and many others. Various 12o-4o sizes. 13 volumes in quarter or half morocco, 8 in boards and 6 in buckram, each with gilt letter "P" at head of spine and numbered consecutively, spines gilt-lettered (as listed below) (several covers detached, some wear and rubbing). Provenance: Sir Anthony Panizzi (1797-1879), Chief Librarian at the British Museum Library (presentation inscriptions from the authors, some manuscript annotations, given to); Louis Fagan, his Godson, who left the collection in 1880 to; The Reform Club, Pall Mall, founded 1834 (bookplates and inkstamps in some volumes, some spines with gilt stamp at foot; sold Sotheby's London, 27 July 1964, lot 392). COMPRISING: 1. ARCHAEOLOGY, ETC., 1840-64. Including works on numismatics. (18) 2. LITERARY, 1835-64. Including: Memoir of the Rt. Hon. Thomas Grenville. 1847. PRESENTATION COPY. (30) 3. DANTE, 1830-63. Including: NORTON, Charles Eliot, A Review of a Translation into Italian on the Commentary by Benvenuto da Imola. PRESENTATION COPY. (19) 4. LEGAL TRACTS, 1844-61. (9) 5. FINE ARTS, 1845-64. (11) 6. POLITICAL, 1815-60. Including: HAMILTON, W.R. No Mistake: or, A Vindication of the Negotiators of the Treaty of 1783. 1842. PRESENTATION COPY. -- GLADSTONE, William. War in China: Speech March 3rd, 1857. 1857. PRESENTATION COPY. (13) 7. MONETARY, 1847-58. Including: BABBAGE, Charles. An Analysis of the Statistics of the Clearing House During the Year 1839. 1856. PRESENTATION COPY. (6) 8. "SOLARO DELLA MARGARITA MEMORANDUM TORICO-POLITICO," 1852 (3) 9. "BROGLIO IMPOSTA SULLA RENDITA &C.," 1856-57. Comprising: BROGLIO, Emilio. Dell'Imposta sulla rendita. 1856. 2 volumes in one. 10. "AMARI PICUS DONNET ROTHSCHILD," 1853-63. Including: ROTHSCHILD, James de. Essai sur les satires de Mathurin Regnier. 1863. PRESENTATION COPY. (4) 11. ITALIAN POETRY, 1848-63. Including: ORLANDINI, F.S. Le grazie carme di Ugo Foscolo. 1848. PRESENTATION COPY. (5) 12. ITALIAN BIOGRAPHY, 1848-63. Including: MAZZA, Angelo. Nuovi ricordi. N.d. Printed on pink paper. (9) 13. ITALIAN POLITICS, 1846-64. (16) 14. ITALIAN POLITICS, 1845-60. (8) 15. ITALIAN POLITICS, NAPLES. All relating to William Gladstone, and including: "Observations sur la résponse du gouvernement Napolitain aux letters adressés à Lord Aberdeen par M. Gladstone." Autograph manuscript in an unknown hand, 48 pages. (10) 16. ITALIAN POLITICS, 1853-62. (9) 17. ITALIAN POLITICS, ROME, 1849-60. (9) 18. ITALIAN POLITICS, 1844-62. Including: MAZZINI, Giuseppe. Ricordi dei fratelli dandiere e dei loro compagni di martirio in cosenza. 1844 and Cinque giorni in Calabria o la catastrophe d'aspromonte per un volontario Garibaldino. 1862. (7) 19. ITALIAN POLITICS, 1849-62. Including: MASSARI, Giuseppe. Regno d'Italia. 1862. PRESENTATION COPY. (15) 20. ITALIAN POLITICS, 1832-51. (5) 21. ITALIAN POLITICS, NAPLES. Including a manuscript architectural drawing of S. Stefano cathedral and MASSARI, Giuseppe. Il Signor Gladstone ed il Governo Napolitano. 1851. (5) 22. ITALIAN BIOGRAPHY, 1835-64. (5) 23. ITALIAN BIOGRAPHY, 1842-62. Including: "Works and Life of Giacomo Leopardi." N.d. INSCRIBED BY GLADSTONE ("from W.E.G."). -- BOGGIO, P.G. da Montevideo a Palermo Vita di Giuseppe Garibaldi. 1860. (9) 24. ITALIAN FINANCE, 1835-62. Including: SCIALOJA, A. I bilanci del regno di Napoli degli state Sardi. 1857. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED TO GLADSTONE. (3) 25. ITALIAN, 1841-62. (10) 26. BIOGRAPHY AND LITERATURE, 1849-63. Including: MANZONI, Alessandro. Il morte di Napoleone. 1861. Trans. by Gladstone. Printed on pink paper. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY GLADSTONE. -- CASTELLANI, Giulio. Stanze in lode delle gentili donne di faenza. 1862. Large-paper copy. -- RUTHERFORD, Andrew. Inaugural Address on his Installation as Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow. 1845. PRESENTATION COPY. -- PISAN, Christine de. Morale Prouerbes. Trans. by the Earl Rivers. London: "Printed for Presentation only," 1859. LIMITED EDITION, one of 95 copies. Reprints the Caxton edition of 1478. (14) 27. [UNTITLED--ITALIAN]. Includes a manuscript critical index of the volume at end. (23) "THE GREATEST LEGISLATOR THE WORLD OF LIBRARIANSHIP HAD YET SEEN" (DNB) A SUPERB COLLECTION OF PAMPHLETS, MANY RELATING TO ITALIAN POLITICS, ART AND CULTURE, COLLECTED BY THE CHIEF LIBRARIAN OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM LIBRARY. Antonio Genesio Maria Panizzi fled his native Italy after the short-lived revolution in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies. He published a book in Switzerland criticizing Francesco IV's oppressive regime, which caused the Italian government to condemn him to death in absentia. In 1823 he moved to England and became a British citizen in 1832. On his arrival, the Italian poet Ugo Foscolo (who is represented in the pamphlets here), gave him a letter of introduction to the Liverpool banker William Roscoe. Moving to Liverpool, Panizzi became instructor of Italian and in 1826, through the introduction to Lord Chancellor Henry Brougham, he became professor at the newly-formed University of London. Brougham also got him his first post at the British Museum Library and fostered his career there. Panizzi served as Assistant Librarian (1831-37), Keeper of Printed Books (1837-56) and finally Chief Librarian (1856-66). As Keeper of Printed Books, Panizzi expanded the collection from 235,000 to 540,000 volumes, making it the largest library in the world. The famous circular reading room was designed and built by Sydney Smirke from a sketch by Panizzi (Smirke's account of the life of C.R. Cockerell is found in vol. 27). Panizzi also undertook the creation of a new catalogue, based on the "Ninety-One Cataloguing Rules" (1841) which he devised with his assistants. It has served as the basis for all subsequent catalogues, including the ISBD. He also is responsible for the writing of the copyright law, which requires that publishers give a copy of every printed book to the library. For his services at the library, he was knighted by Victoria in 1869. Panizzi was a personal friend of British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston and William Gladstone, Sardinian Prime Minister Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, the numismatist W.S.W. Vaux, the philologist Thomas Watts and the French archaeologist and writer Prosper Merimee. In 1844, Panizzi also assisted Giuseppe Mazzini, then in exile in London, by publishing an influential article denouncing the practice ordered by the Home Secretary of ordering Mazzini's private letters opened by the Post Office and giving copies of their contents to the Austrian Embassy. He orchestrated a visit by Giuseppe Garibaldi to England. The present collection of pamphlets reflects this wealth of experience and influence, and includes numerous presentation copies from many of his primary associates. Among Panizzi's own writings in the collection are four pamphlets dealing with the embittered affair of the Royal Society library catalogue, Sir Frederick Madden, Panizzi's frequent antagonist at the British Museum, makes a solitary appearance. The set was given by Panizzi's godson, Louis Fagan, to The Reform Club in 1880 on the completion of his biography of Panizzi. A catalogue of the collection was printed for the Club in 1920. A symbol of Liberalism in London, the Reform Club counted among its members Joseph Hume, George Grote, Prof. E.S. Beesly, Louis Fagan, G.E. Buckle, Sir Edward Sullivan, Sir Henry Irving, Samuel Plimsoll, and Sir Charles Dilke. The library at the club was formed under Panizzi's guidance in 1841. (27)