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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 July 2011
    17 June 2010
    ISBN:
    9780511710094
    9781108014953
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511710094
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    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.55kg, 436 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Literature, Printing and Publishing History, British History after 1450, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Printing and Publishing History, British History after 1450, History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - History of Printing, Publishing and Libraries
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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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