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Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, Part 2 of 2

Note 14 — Chapter IV · THE KING’S OR ‘GEORGIAN’ LIBRARY;—ITS COLLECTOR, AND ITS DONOR.

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The story, I observe, has been endorsed in Mr. Blades’ excellent Life of Caxton (see part 2, p. 268), but it is undoubtedly a distortion or exaggeration of some chance occurrence. No such series could have been formed otherwise than, in the main, by systematic research.

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