TY - BOOK ID - 85465923 TI - Lives of the founders of the British Museum : with notices of its chief augmentors and other benefactors, 1570-1870. PY - 2011 SN - 0511710097 110801495X PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - British Museum KW - Daiei Hakubutsukan KW - Matḥaf al-Barīṭānī KW - Museo Británico KW - Britské muzeum v Londýně KW - Briṭish Muzeʼon KW - Ta Ying po wu kuan KW - Da Ying bo wu guan KW - Museum Britannicum KW - Great Britain. KW - בריטיש מוזיאום KW - מוזיאון הבריטי KW - 大英博物館 KW - British Library KW - Book collectors KW - Book owners KW - Books KW - Book selection KW - Collectors and collecting KW - Private libraries UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85465923 AB - 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. ER -