Volume 2 Part II: Lives of the Founders of the British Museum; with Notices of its Chief Augmentors and other Benefactors 1570-1870 (1870) Edward Edwards. Chapter 3 A Group of Book-Lovers and Public Benefactors Chapter 4 The Kings or 'Georgian' library, its Collector and its Donor Chapter 5 The Founder of the Banksian Museum and Library Third Book Later Augmenters and Benefactors 1829-1870 Chapter 1 General View of the History of the British Museum under administration as principal librarian of Joseph Planta Chapter 2 Introduction to Book Three- Growth, Progress and Internal Economy of the British Museum during the Principal-librarianship of Sir Henry Ellis Chapter 3 Introduction to Book Three- Growth, Progress and Internal Economy of the British Museum during the Principal-librarianship of Sir Antonio Panizzi Chapter 4 Another Group of Archaeologists and Explorers- the spoils of Xanthus of Babylon of Nineveh of Halicarnassus and of Carthage Chapter 5 The Founder of the Grenville Library Chapter 6 Other Benefactors of Recent Days Chapter 7 Reconstructors and Projectors. Index
Biography
Introduction by Susan M. Pearce, University of Leicester, Author, Edward Edwards.
