TY - SER
AU - Giles Mandelbrote
AU - Barry Taylor
CY - London, England
LA - English
N1 - <p>Contents:&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Preface / Sir Colin Lucas </li><li>Introduction: from texts to collections / David Pearson </li><li>The foundation collections. Henry VIII's library and the British Museum duplicate sales: a newly discovered de-accession / James P. Carley </li><li>Isaac Casaubon's library of Hebrew books / Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg </li><li>The printed books of the Cotton family and their dispersal / Colin G.C. </li><li>Tite Printed material and the Cotton manuscripts / Julian Harrison </li><li>Sir Hans Sloane's printed books in the British Library: their identification and associations / Alison Walker </li><li>Sloane's purchases at the sale of Robert Hooke's library / Giles Mandelbrote </li><li>Sloane and the preservation of printed Ephemera / Giles Mandelbrote&nbsp;</li></ul><p>The early decades.&nbsp;</p><ul><li>George Thomason's intentions / Michael Mendle </li><li>Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode / Paul Quarrie </li><li>Sir William Musgrave (1735-1800) and the British Museum Library / C.J. Wright </li><li>The scholarly library and collections of knowledge of Sir Joseph Banks / Rüdiger Joppien and Neil Chambers </li><li>The BM duplicate sales 1769-1832 and their significance for the early collections / T.A. Birrell&nbsp;</li></ul><p>The King's Library.&nbsp;</p><ul><li>The Bibliotheca Smithiana / Lotte Hellinga </li><li>Moving the King's Library : argument and sentiment 1823-1998 / John Goldfinch</li><li> The King's Library / P.R. Harris&nbsp;</li></ul><p>Later collections of printed books within the British Museum Library.&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Thomas Grenville (1755-1846) and his books / Barry Taylor </li><li>Buying at auction: building the British Museum Library's collections in the second half of the nineteenth century / Geoffrey West </li><li>The collections of Sergei Aleksandrovich Sobolevskii (1803-1870) / Chris Thomas </li><li>Libraries in the archives: researching provenance in the British Library invoices / Arnold Hunt&nbsp;</li></ul><p>Appendices.&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Identification of printed books acquired by the British Museum, 1753-1836 / P.R. Harris </li><li>Some contemporary sources for the early history of the British Museum's printed collections / John Goldfinch.</li></ul>
PB - The British Library
PP - London, England
PY - 2009
SN - 978-0-7123-5035-8
EP - 448 pp.
TI - Libraries within the Library: The Origins of the British Library's Printed Collections
ER -