Libraries within the Library: The Origins of the British Library's Printed Collections

Contents: 

• Preface / Sir Colin Lucas
• Introduction: from texts to collections / David Pearson
• The foundation collections. Henry VIII's library and the British Museum duplicate sales: a newly discovered de-accession / James P. Carley
• Isaac Casaubon's library of Hebrew books / Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg
• The printed books of the Cotton family and their dispersal / Colin G.C.
• Tite Printed material and the Cotton manuscripts / Julian Harrison
• Sir Hans Sloane's printed books in the British Library: their identification and associations / Alison Walker
• Sloane's purchases at the sale of Robert Hooke's library / Giles Mandelbrote
• Sloane and the preservation of printed Ephemera / Giles Mandelbrote 

The early decades. 

• George Thomason's intentions / Michael Mendle
• Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode / Paul Quarrie
• Sir William Musgrave (1735-1800) and the British Museum Library / C.J. Wright
• The scholarly library and collections of knowledge of Sir Joseph Banks / Rüdiger Joppien and Neil Chambers
• The BM duplicate sales 1769-1832 and their significance for the early collections / T.A. Birrell 

The King's Library. 

• The Bibliotheca Smithiana / Lotte Hellinga
• Moving the King's Library : argument and sentiment 1823-1998 / John Goldfinch
• The King's Library / P.R. Harris 

Later collections of printed books within the British Museum Library. 

• Thomas Grenville (1755-1846) and his books / Barry Taylor
• Buying at auction: building the British Museum Library's collections in the second half of the nineteenth century / Geoffrey West
• The collections of Sergei Aleksandrovich Sobolevskii (1803-1870) / Chris Thomas
• Libraries in the archives: researching provenance in the British Library invoices / Arnold Hunt 

Appendices. 

• Identification of printed books acquired by the British Museum, 1753-1836 / P.R. Harris
• Some contemporary sources for the early history of the British Museum's printed collections / John Goldfinch.