UID:
edocfu_9960117405602883
Format:
1 online resource (312 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-71009-7
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. Printing and publishing history
Content:
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.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2010.
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Originally published: London: Trübner and Co., 1870.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-108-01495-X
Language:
English
