A monument of the love of letters : the Right Honourable Thomas Grenville and his library
In 1846 The Right Honourable Thomas Grenville (1755-1846), bibliophile and politician, bequeathed to the British Museum Library one of the largest collections it was ever to receive. The collection of over 20,000 printed books and over 60 manuscripts was formed in the late eighteenth and the first h...
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University College London (University of London)
2012
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.616963 |