Lives of the Founders of the British Museum
With Notices of its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570–1870
2 Volume Paperback Set

Table of Contents

Volume 1: Book I. Early Collectors - The Gatherers of the Foundation Collections:
1. Introduction
2. The founder of the Cottonian Library
3. The chief collector and the augmentors of the old Royal and Public Library at St. James
4. The collector of the Arundelian Mss.
5. The collector of the Harleian Mss.
6. The founders of the Sloane Museum
Book II. The Organizers, and Early Augmentors:
1. Introductory
2. A group of classical archaeologists and explorers. Volume 2: 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.