Lives of the Founders of the British Museum
With Notices of its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570–1870
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:17th Jun '10
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This is the second 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 2 looks at some of the early book donors and George III's Royal Library, as well as later benefactors of the period 1829–1870.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.
ISBN: 9781108014960
Dimensions: 216mm x 22mm x 140mm
Weight: 500g
396 pages