Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, Part 1 of 2: With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870.Edwards, Edward
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Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, Part 1 of 2: With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870.
Edwards, Edward
Book collectors -- Great Britain; British Museum
_The Harley Family.—Parliamentary and Official Career of Robert
Harley, Earl of Oxford.—The Party Conflicts under Queen
Anne.—Robert Harley and Jonathan Swift.—Harley and the Court of
the Stuarts.—Did Harley conspire to restore the
Pretender?—History of the Harleian Library.—The Life and
Correspondence of Humphrey Wanley_ 203
CHAPTER VI.
_THE FOUNDERS OF THE SLOANE MUSEUM._
_Flemish Exiles in England.—The Adventures, Mercantile and
Colonial Enterprises, and Vicissitudes of the Courtens.—William
Courten and his Collections.—The Life and Travels of Sir Hans
Sloane.—His acquisition of Courten’s Museum.—Its Growth under
the new Possessor.—History of the Sloane Museum and Library, and
of their purchase by Parliament_ 247
BOOK THE SECOND.
_THE ORGANIZERS, AND EARLY AUGMENTORS._
CHAPTER I.
_INTRODUCTORY._
_Househunting.—The Removal of the Sloane Museum from
Chelsea.—Montagu House, and its History.—The Early Trustees and
Officers.—The Museum Regulations.—Early Helpers in the
Foundation and Increase of the British Museum.—Epochs in the
Growth of the Natural History Collections.—Experiences of
Inquiring Visitors in the years 1765–1784_ 317
CHAPTER II.
_A GROUP OF CLASSICAL ARCHÆOLOGISTS AND EXPLORERS._
_Sir William Hamilton and his Pursuits and Employments in
Italy.—The Acquisitions of the French Institute of Egypt, and
the capture of part of them at Alexandria.—Charles Towneley and
his Collection of Antiquities.—The Researches of the Earl of
Elgin in Greece.—The Collections and Writings of Richard Payne
Knight_ 346
CHAPTER III.
_A GROUP OF BOOK-LOVERS AND PUBLIC BENEFACTORS._
_Notices of some early Donors of Books.—The Life and Collections
of Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode.—William Petty, first Marquess of
Lansdowne, and his Library of Manuscripts.—The Literary Life and
Collections of Dr. Charles Burney.—Francis Hargrave and his
Manuscripts.—The Life and Testamentary Foundations of Francis
Henry Egerton, Ninth Earl of Bridgewater_ 413
CHAPTER IV.
_THE KING’S OR ‘GEORGIAN’ LIBRARY;—ITS COLLECTOR, AND ITS DONOR._
_Notices of the Literary Tastes and Acquirements of King George
the Third.—His Conversations with Men of Letters.—History of his
Library and of its Transfer to the British Nation by George the
Fourth_ 464
CHAPTER V.
_THE FOUNDER OF THE BANKSIAN MUSEUM AND LIBRARY._
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