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LIVES OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM
WITH NOTICES OF ITS CHIEF AUGMENTORS AND OTHER BENEFACTORS, 1570-1870 |
| By: |
Edward Edwards |
| Format: |
Paperback |

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| ISBN 10: |
110801495X |
| ISBN 13: |
9781108014953 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE LIBRARY COLLECTION |
| Pub. date: |
17 June, 2010 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries |
| Pages: |
436 |
| 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 |
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