Lives of the Founders of the British Museum

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Edward Edwards

Lives of the Founders of the British Museum

Name: Lives of the Founders of the British Museum
Author: Edward Edwards

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

Paperback Engels 2010 9781108014953

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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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ISBN13:9781108014953

Taal:Engels

Bindwijze:Paperback

Aantal pagina's:436

Uitgever:Cambridge University Press

Serie:Cambridge Library Co

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Book I. Early Collectors - The Gatherers of the Foundation Collections: 1. Introduction; 2. The founder of the Cottonian Library; 3. The chief collector and the augmentors of the old Royal and Public Library at St. James; 4. The collector of the Arundelian Mss.; 5. The collector of the Harleian Mss.; 6. The founders of the Sloane Museum; Book II. The Organizers, and Early Augmentors: 1. Introductory; 2. A group of classical archaeologists and explorers.

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