Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, Part I
by Edward Edwards
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About this eBook
- Author
- Edwards, Edward, 1812-1886
- Title
- Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, Part 1 of 2 With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870.
- Original Publication
- United Kingdom: Trübner and Co.,1870.
- Credits
- Richard Tonsing, MWS and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- Z: Bibliography, Library science
- Subject
- Book collectors -- Great Britain
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 67389
- Release Date
- February 17, 2022
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.LIVES OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM; WITH NOTICES OF ITS CHIEF AUGMENTORS AND OTHER BENEFACTORS. 1570–1870.
- 2.PART I.
- 3.PREFATORY NOTE.
- 4.CONTENTS.
- 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. — BOOK THE FIRST. EARLY COLLECTORS:—THE GATHERERS OF THE FOUNDATION COLLECTIONS. — CONTENTS OF BOOK I. — CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. — CHAPTER II. THE FOUNDER OF THE COTTONIAN LIBRARY. — CHAPTER III. THE CHIEF COLLECTOR AND THE AUGMENTORS OF THE OLD ROYAL AND PUBLIC LIBRARY AT ST. JAMES’. — CHAPTER IV. THE COLLECTOR OF THE ARUNDELIAN MSS. — CHAPTER V. THE COLLECTOR OF THE HARLEIAN MSS. — CHAPTER VI. THE FOUNDERS OF THE SLOANE MUSEUM. — BOOK THE SECOND. THE ORGANIZERS, AND EARLY AUGMENTORS. — CONTENTS OF BOOK II :— — CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. — CHAPTER II. A GROUP OF CLASSICAL ARCHÆOLOGISTS AND EXPLORERS.
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