Museums and collecting is now a major area of cultural studies. This selected group of key texts opens the investigation and appreciation of museum history. Edward Edwards, chief pioneer of municipal public libraries, chronicles the founders and early donors to the British Museum. Greenwood and Murray provide informative pictures of the early history of the museum movement. Sir William Flower, Director of the British Museum (Natural History), takes a pioneering philosophical approach to the sphere of natural history in relation to museums. Similarly, Acland and Ruskin discuss and explore the relationships of art and architecture to museums.
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.
