A catalogue of the manuscripts preserved in the British Museum hitherto undescribed :
consisting of five thousand volumes, including the collections of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart., the Rev. Thomas Birch, D.D. and about five hundred volumes bequeathed, presented, or purchased at various times /
by Samuel Ayscough, clerk.
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English
- Published
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London : Printed for the compiler, by John Rivington, Jun., St. John's Square, Clerkenwell, MDCCLXXXIII [1782]
- Note
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"Commenced in April 1780 and published in 1782 by leave of the Trustees, but as a private venture of the compiler"--Dict. nat. biog.
- Physical Description
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2 v. ;
30 cm. (fol.)
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