The general contents of the British Museum
Subtitle: with remarks, serving as a directory in viewing that Noble Cabinet
By: [by Edmund Powlett]
Contributors: Edmund Powlett; Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764; Dodsley, James, 1724-1797; R. and J. Dodsley
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall
Published: 1761
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 103
Subjects: Library buildings; British Museum; History
Other titles: The general contents of the British Museum.
Notes: Anonymous. By Edmund Powlett. "Although this guide is sometimes attributed to 'R. and J. Dodsley', a British Library copy of the 1761 edition is annotated 'E. Powlett'. In the British Library Catalogue there is an annotation against a second copy of the 1761 guide (press mark c.142.cc.19) which states that inserted in it, among other things, was '... a MS. copy of the agreement between the author and James Dodsley, the publisher'. It would appear that this is the source of the attribution of authorship to Powlett by a now unknown but knowledgeable cataloguer. (Information by Janet Koss" [In R.G.W. Anderson ... [et al.] (eds.), Knowledge, discovery and the museum in the eighteenth century. (London: The British Museum Press, 2003, p. 24, in adnot.]