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British Museum.- Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum, fourteenth edition, modern cloth-backed boards, 1818 § Guide (A) to the Beauties of the British Musuem..., stitched, uncut, first and last leaves lightly soiled and frayed at edges, preserved in modern marbled drop-back box, 1826 § Statutes and Rules for the British Musuem, cloth, 1856 § Ellis (Sir Henry) The Townley Gallery of Classic Sculpture in the British Museum, 2 vol., illustrations, with loosely inserted, original green cloth, spine faded and a little worn at ends, [1846] § O'Donoghue (Frank M.) Catalogue of the Collection of Playing Cards bequeathed to...the British Museum by the late Lady Charlotte Schreiber original cloth, spine ends a little worn, 1901 § Read (Charles Hercules) The Waddesdon Bequest: Catalogue of the Works of Art bequeathed to the British Museum by Baron Ferdinand Rothschild, M.P. 1898, 1902 § Charles Hercules Read: A Tribute...and a Record of Additions to the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography...1896-1921, plates, marginal staining to a few leaves, original morocco-backed cloth, 1921 § British Museum Quarterly (The), vol.1-14 in 55 only (lacking vol.XIII no.2) plus a few later issues, original wrappers, uncut, loose in original cloth-backed board annual folders, some damp-staining (particularly vol.I), 1927-40 § Miller (E.) That Noble Cabinet: A History of the British Museum, 1973 § Caygill (M.) & John Cherry. A.W.Franks: Nineteenth-Century Collecting and the British Museum, 1997, the last two original boards with dust-jackets, the rest rubbed; and a small quantity of others relating to the British Museum, 8vo & 4to (c.60) ⁂ Loosely inserted in the fourth is a 4pp. A.L.s. from the author, the principal librarian, to Rt.Hon. Thomas Grenville, a major benefactor to the library, explaining why he had refused admittance to the Reading Room of a Mr. Lewis's son (due to his being under eighteen).