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Title:
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LIVES OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM: VOLUME 1
WITH NOTICES OF ITS CHIEF AUGMENTORS AND OTHER BENEFACTORS, 1570-1870 |
By: |
Edward Edwards |
Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£50.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0511710097 |
ISBN 13: |
9780511710094 |
Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
5 July, 2011 |
Series: |
Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries |
Description: |
This is the first in a two-volume work about the founders of the British Museum. |
Synopsis: |
This two-volume work covers the period 1570-1870, and is one of several written on book collections by Edward Edwards (1812-1886), whose three-volume Memoirs of Libraries is also reissued in this series. Volume 1 considers the gatherers of the 'foundation collections' of the British Museum. Among them were Henry, Prince of Wales, the son of James I, Sir Robert Cotton (1571-1631), and Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753), whose bequest of his collections to George II led directly to the foundation of the Museum by Act of Parliament in 1753. The administrators and early donors to the Museum - archaeologists, travellers and dilettanti such as Sir William Hamilton and the earl of Elgin - are also discussed. |
Illustrations: |
1 b/w illus. |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing) |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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