THE FOUNDERS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM; WITH NOTICES OF ITS CHIEF AUGMENTORS AND OTHER BENEFACTORS. 1570-1870. BY EDWARD EDWARDS. PART II. LONDON: TRÜBNER AND CO., 60, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1870. (All rights reserved.) 123872-B HSS.-S. CHAPTER III. A GROUP OF BOOK-LOVERS AND PUBLIC BENEFACTORS. 'If we were to take away from the Museum Collection Considering the British Museum to be a National 'I want a poor student to have the same means of in- When you have given a hundred thousand pounds,-in ten or twelve years, you will begin to have a library worthy of the British Nation.' ANTONIO PANIZZI-Evidence before Select Committee on British Museum, 7th June, 1836. (Q. 4785-4795.) 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. Chap. III. THE Reader has now seen that, within some twelve or BOOK II, fifteen years, a Collection of Antiquities, comparatively small BOOKand insignificant, was so enriched as to gain the aspect of a PUBLIC National Museum of which all English-speaking men might BENEFAC LOVERS AND TORS. |