Lives of the Founders of the British Museum

With Notices of its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570–1870

By:

Edward Edwards

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries

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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.

Release date Australia

June 17th, 2010

Author

Edward Edwards

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Illustrations

1 Plates, black and white

Pages

436

Series

Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries

Dimensions

140x216x25

ISBN-13

9781108014953

Product ID

6872795

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