Lives of the Founders of the British Museum - With Notices of its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870 (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Lives of the Founders of the British Museum 2 Volume Paperback Set, Volume 2
Release date:	June 2010
First published:	April 2010
Authors:	Edward Edwards
Dimensions:	216 x 141 x 140mm (L x W x H)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	396
ISBN-13:	978-1-108-01496-0
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Museums & museology Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > History > British & Irish history > General
LSN:	1-108-01496-8
Barcode:	9781108014960

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