Franks Bequest, Vol. 1
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Excerpt from Franks Bequest, Vol. 1: Catalogue of British and American Book Plates Bequeathed to the Trustees of the British Museum The famous antiquary Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks, for nearly thirty years Keeper of British and Mediæval Antiquities in the British Museum, at his death in 1897 bequeathed to the Trustees, among many other treasures, a collection of English and foreign book plates which is probably the largest and most comprehensive ever formed. (The word English is here used, as the collector himself was accustomed to use it in conversation, for brevity and convenience to signify British and American as distinguished from Continental.) The English portion, after elimination of duplicates, numbers close upon forty thousand examples; the foreign portion nearly thirty thousand. When the collection came into the British Museum, the foreign portion alone was in something like order. It consisted chiefly of the Roziere and Bilco collections, purchased by Sir Wollaston Franks en bloc; and both these had been methodically arranged and mounted by their former owners. But Sir Wollaston amassed his English collection from all manner of miscellaneous sources, and continued actively increasing it till within a few months of his death; and in his hands the work of acquisition and identification had far outstripped that of sorting and arrangement. When his bequest became the property of the Trustees, this portion had yet to be weeded of duplicates, brought into one main series, studied, sorted, numbered, catalogued, and arranged for mounting, before it could be made available for the use of students. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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