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LIVES OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM: VOLUME 2
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: |
0511710100 |
ISBN 13: |
9780511710100 |
Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
5 August, 2011 |
Series: |
Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries |
Description: |
This is the second 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 2 looks at some of the early donors of books to the Museum. A chapter is then devoted to the Royal Library of King George III. Finally, Edwards concentrates on the period 1829-1870, giving a general view of the growth of the British Museum under a series of chief librarians, including his own contemporary, Sir Anthony Panizzi. Later chapters look at the donors of items in the ever-growing collection of antiquities, and give an account of the Grenville Library of over 20,000 books, bequeathed to the Museum in 1846 by one of its Trustees. |
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5 colour illus. |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing) |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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