Author: EDWARDS, EDWARD.
Title: Lives Of The Founders Of The British Museum; With Notices of its Chief Augmentors and other Benefactors. 1570-1870.
Description: Reprint; 8vo; pp. xii, 780; frontispiece, 1 fold out plan of the British Museum ground floor with proposed alterations, 12 b/w illustrations, index; original maroon cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, minor marks to front free endpaper, otherwise a very good copy. New York, Burt Franklin, (1969). Includes: Cotton, Arundel, Harley, Courten, Sloane, Hamilton, Charles Towneley, Payne Knight, Lansdowne, Bridge-Water, King George III, Banks, Cracherode, Grenville, Fellows, Layard, Cureton -&c. &c. &c.

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