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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: |
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Material Type: | Document |
Document Type: | Book, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Edward Edwards |
ISBN: | 9780511710100 0511710100 9781108014960 1108014968 |
OCLC Number: | 1117874398 |
Notes: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
Description: | 1 online resource (396 pages) : PDF file(s). |
Series Title: | Cambridge library collection., History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries. |
Responsibility: | Edward Edwards. |
Abstract:
This two-volume work covers the period 1570{u2013}1870, and is one of several written on book collections by Edward Edwards (1812{u2013}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{u2013}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.
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