| | Book | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | A handy-book of the British Museum: for every-day readers
| | | | Creator: | Nichols, Thomas. | | | | Publication: | Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, London,1870. | | | | Notes: | Devoted chiefly to the Oriental and classical antiquities. | | | | Call #: | AM101 B862N | | | | Extent: | 1 p., Á., viii, 426 p. front., illus., plates. 22 cm. | | | | Subjects: | British Museum
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Lives of the founders of the British Museum: with notices of its chief augmentors and other benefactors, 1570-1870
| | | | Creator: | Edwards, Edward, 1812-1886 | | | | Publication: | Trèubner, London,1870. | | | | Call #: | Z792 B862E | | | | Extent: | x, 780 p. : ill. plans (partly fold) ; 23 cm. | | | | Subjects: | British Museum | Book collectors
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 3 | Title: | Remarkable bindings in the British Museum: selected for their beauty or historic interest
| | | | Creator: | Wheatley, Henry Benjamin, 1838-1917 | | | | | Cundall, Joseph, 1818-1895 | | | | Publication: | S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington; [etc., etc.], London,1889. | | | | Notes: | Initials. "The inception of the book is due to Mr. Joseph Cundall, who arranged its plan and worked out its details."--Pref. "The photographs of the bindings were taken at the British Museum by Mr. L. B. Fleming, by the ortho-chromatic process, and were printed in monotint by Messrs. Aron fráeres of Paris, under the superintendence of M. Lâeon Gruel." | | | | Call #: | Z269 W557 | | | | Extent: | xv, 143, [1] p. illus., LXII col. pl. 31 x 24 cm. | | | | Subjects: | British Museum | Bookbinding -- Facsimiles
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 4 | Title: | Handbook to the library of the British Museum: containing a brief history of its formation, and of the various collections of which it is composed ; descriptions of the catalogues in present use ; classed lists of the manuscripts, etc ; and a variety of information indispensable for the "readers" at that institution ; with some account of the principle libraries in London
| | | | Creator: | Sims, Richard, 1816-1898 | | | | Publication: | John Russell Smith, London,1854. | | | | Notes: | Includes index. | | | | Call #: | Z792 B862S | | | | Extent: | xii, 418 p., [1] p. of plates : maps (some fold.) ; 18 cm. | | | | Subjects: | British Museum | Libraries -- England -- London
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