LIVES OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM; WITH NOTICES OF ITS CHIEF AUGMENTORS AND OTHER BENEFACTORS. 1570–1870. ‘If we were to take away from the Museum Collection [of Books] the King’s Library, and the collection which George the Third gave before that, and then the magnificent collection of Mr. Cracherode, as well as those of Sir William Musgrave, Sir Joseph Banks, Sir Richard Colt Hoare, and many others,—and also all the books received under the Copyright Act,—if we were to take away all the books so given, I am satisfied not one half of the books [in 1836], nor one third of the _value_ of the Library, has been procured with money voted by the Nation. The Nation has done almost nothi…
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