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Lives of the Founders of the British Museum - With Notices of its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870 (Paperback)
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Lives of the Founders of the British Museum - With Notices of its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries, Volume 1
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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.
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