Edward Edwards

Lives of the Founders of the British Museum

With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570 1870

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 557g
• ISBN-13: 9781108014960
• ISBN-10: 1108014968
• Artikelnr.: 30363469

Inhaltsangabe

Book II continued: 3. A group of book-lovers and public benefactors
4. The King's or 'Georgian' Library
its collector, and its donor
5. The founder of the Banksian Museum and Library
Book III. Later Augmentors and Benefactors 1729-1870: 1. General view of the history of the British Museum under Joseph Planta
2. Introduction to Book III (continued) - growth, progress, and internal economy, of the British Mueum under Sir Henry Ellis
3. Introduction to Book III (continued) - growth, progress, and internal economy, of the British Museum under Sir Antonio Panizzi
4. Another group of archaeologists and explorers - the spoils of Xanthus, of Babylon, or Nineveh, of Halicarnassus, and of Cathage
5. The founder of the Grenville Library
6. Other benefactors of recent days
7. Reconstructors and projectors
Index.