Abstract
Before our author’s book has sold a copy it may already have been sent to some of the finest libraries in the land. Not that they paid him for it. By a faintly odd tradition a copy of every book published in Britain may go free to the British Museum Library (which has 6,500,000 volumes), the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh (more than 2,000,000), the National Library of Wales, in Aberystwyth (nearly 2,000,000), and two libraries of 2,500,000 volumes apiece—the Bodleian at Oxford (founded by Sir Thomas Bodley who is credited with thinking of the free-copy idea) and Cambridge University Library. The British Museum must receive its free copy; the other libraries claim one if they feel like doing so.
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