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Lives of the Founders of the British Museum

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

Edward Edwards author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:17th Jun '10

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This is the first in a two-volume work about the founders of the British Museum.

Written in 1870, this two-volume work covers the period 1570–1870. Volume 1 considers the gatherers of the 'foundation collections', including Sir Hans Sloane (1660–1753), whose bequest of his collections to George II led directly to the foundation of the Museum, and the administrators and early donors.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.

ISBN: 9781108014953

Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 25mm

Weight: 550g

436 pages