Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, Part II
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 2 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. 67390
- 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 II. — CHAPTER III. A GROUP OF BOOK-LOVERS AND PUBLIC BENEFACTORS. — CHAPTER IV. THE KING’S OR ‘GEORGIAN’ LIBRARY;—ITS COLLECTOR, AND ITS DONOR. — CHAPTER V. THE FOUNDER OF THE BANKSIAN MUSEUM AND LIBRARY. — BOOK THE THIRD. LATER AUGMENTORS AND BENEFACTORS. 1829–1870. — CONTENTS OF BOOK III :— — CHAPTER I. GENERAL VIEW OF THE HISTORY OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, UNDER THE ADMINISTRATION, AS PRINCIPAL-LIBRARIAN, OF JOSEPH PLANTA. — CHAPTER II. INTRODUCTION TO BOOK III ( Continued ): —GROWTH, PROGRESS, AND INTERNAL ECONOMY, OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, DURING THE PRINCIPAL-LIBRARIANSHIP OF SIR HENRY ELLIS. — CHAPTER III. INTRODUCTION TO BOOK III ( Continued ): —GROWTH, PROGRESS, AND INTERNAL ECONOMY, OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM DURING THE PRINCIPAL-LIBRARIANSHIP OF SIR ANTONIO PANIZZI. — CHAPTER IV. ANOTHER GROUP OF ARCHÆOLOGISTS AND EXPLORERS.—THE SPOILS OF XANTHUS, OF BABYLON, OF NINEVEH, OF HALICARNASSUS, AND OF CARTHAGE. — CHAPTER V. THE FOUNDER OF THE GRENVILLE LIBRARY. — CHAPTER VI. OTHER BENEFACTORS OF RECENT DAYS.—CREATION OF THE NEW DEPARTMENT OF BRITISH AND MEDIÆVAL ANTIQUITIES AND ETHNOGRAPHY. — CHAPTER VII. RECONSTRUCTORS AND PROJECTORS.
- 3.GENERAL INDEX.
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