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• British Museum -- Periodicals

• The Bible and the British Museum (London: Morgan and Scott, 1909), by Ada R. Habershon, contrib. by Robert Anderson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Review of "An Inquiry Into the Genuineness of the Manuscript Corrections in Mr. J. Payne Collier's Annotatated Shakspere, Folio, 1632; and of Certain Shaksperian Documents Likewise Published by Mr. Collier", by N. E. S. A Hamilton (Bentley) (anonymous review attributed to Dixon, with Collier's reply to Hamilton's inquiry; New York: Printed for private circulation by C. W. Frederickson, 1860), by William Hepworth Dixon, contrib. by John Payne Collier
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• Authentic copies of the codicils belonging to the last will and testament of Sir Hans Sloane, bart. deceased, which relate to his collection of books and curiosities. (London : Printed (by order of the executors) by Daniel Browne ..., 1753), by Hans Sloane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum., by British Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to the exhibition galleries of the British Museum, Bloomsbury. (London : Printed by order of the Trustees, 1888), by British Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to the exhibition galleries of the British Museum, Bloomsbury. ([London] : Printed by order of the Trustees, 1895), by British Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to the exhibition galleries of the British Museum (Bloomsbury). ([London] Printed by order of the Trustees, 1908), by British Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• An introduction to the study of rocks and guide to the museum collection. (London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1895), by British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Mineralogy and L. Fletcher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Sprache der altenglischen Glossen im Ms. Harley 3376; (Halle, E. Karras, 1904), by Paul Boll (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Acts and votes of Parliament relating to the British museum : with the statutes and rules thereof, and the succession of trustees and officers. (London : Printed by G. Woodfall, 1824), by Great Britain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum. (London : R. & A. Taylor), by British Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outlines for the classification of a library; respectfully submitted to the consideration of the trustees of the British Museum. (London : G. Woodfall, 1825), by Thomas Hartwell Horne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bible student in the British Museum : a discriptive guide to the principal antiquities which illustrate and confirm the sacred history / (London (etc.) : Cassell & Company, 1893), by J. G. Kitchin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life and genius of Rembrandt : the most celebrated of Rembrandt's etchings : thirty photographs taken from the collections in the British Museum, and in the possession of Mr. Seymour Haden, with descriptions, and A discourse on the life and genius of Rembrandt by Dr. Scheltema / (London : Bell and Daldy ; Cambridge : Deighton, Bell, 1867), by Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Pieter Scheltema, P. Yver, Daniel Daulby, Joseph Cundall, Francis Seymour Haden, and British Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Museum Britannicum : being an exhibition of a great variety of antiquities and natural curiosities, belonging to that noble and magnificent cabinet, the British Museum : illustrated with curious prints, engraved after the original designs, from nature, other objects : and with distinct explanations of each figure / (London : Printed by I. Moore, for the authors ..., 1778), by Jan van Rymsdyk, Andreas van Rymsdyk, and British Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report from the Select Committee on the condition, management and affairs of the British Museum; together with the minutes of evidence, appendix and index. ([London : Hansard, 1835]), by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the British Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report from the select committee on the British Museum, together with the proceedings of the committee, minutes of evidence, and appendix. (London, 1860), by Great Britain Parliament House of Commons (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to the exhibition galleries of the British Museum (Bloomsbury) ([London] : Trustees, 1901), by British Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Succinta indicaçâo de alguns manuscriptos importantes, respectivos ao Brazil e a Portugal, existentes no Museo britannico em Londres, e nâo comprehendidos no catalogo-Figanière, publicado em Lisboa em 1853, ou simples additamento ao dito catalogo. (Habana : Impr. La Antilla, 1863), by Francisco Adolfo de Varnhagen and Frederico Francisco de la Figanière (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bible and the British Museum / (New York : Gospel Pub. House, [1909?]), by Ada R. Habershon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brittisches Museum, nebst der Beschreibung des berühmten naturalien u. antiquitaeten Cabinets des Hrn. Ritters Hans Sloane, zum Unterricht derer welche solches mit Nutzen besehen wollen : aus dem Englischen nach der neuesten Ausgabe ... (Berlin : Bey Friedr. Wilh. Birnstiel, 1764), by Hans Sloane and British Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bibliographic projects: respectfully submitted to the Right Honourable the Earl of Ellesmere, and the other commissioners appointed by Her Majesty to inquire into the affairs of the British museum, ([London : Richards, printer, 1848?]), by Bolton Corney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum / (London : Woodfall, 1840), by British Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to the exhibition rooms of the Departments of Natural History and Antiquities. (London : Printed by order of the Trustees, 1875), by British Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to the exhibition galleries of the British Museum, Bloomsbury. ([London] : Printed by order of the Trustees, 1887), by British Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Papers in Egerton Ms. 2395 / ([Boston : s.n., 1886]), by Henry F. Waters and British Museum. Department of Manuscripts (Egerton mss.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die sprache der altenglischen glossen im ms. Harley 3376,, by Paul Boll (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A letter to the Earl of Ellesmere : on the management of the library of printed books in the British Museum. (London : [s.n.], 1849), by John Edward Gray and Francis Egerton Ellesmere (page images at HathiTrust)
• A catalogue of books placed in the galleries in the Reading Room of the British Museum. (London : Printed by order of the Trustees, 1886), by British Museum, G. W. Porter, and British Museum. Trustees (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to the exhibition of drawings and sketches by continental and British masters : in the print and drawing gallery. (London : The Museum, 1891), by British Museum and Sidney Colvin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to the exhibition galleries of the British Museum, Bloomsbury. ([London], Printed by order of the Trustees, 1882), by British Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Subject index of modern books acquired. (London.), by British Library and British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Index to report and minutes of evidence. (London, Printed by W. Clowes and sons, for H.M. Stationery off., 1850), by Great Britain. Commissioners appointed to inquire into the Constitution and Government of the British Museum and Francis Egerton Ellesmere (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of the founders of the British museum. (London : Trübner and co.; New York : J. W. Bouton, 1870), by Edward Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• The British Museum : its antiquities and natural history : a hand-book guide for visitors / (London : H.G. Clarke and Co. : Sold by Mr. Dyer at the Museum Coffee House, 1850), by Henry G. Clarke and British Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Dictionary of illuminations and early drawings in the British Museum ([London : S. Bagster, 1878]), by British Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Guide to the exhibition rooms of the departments of natural history and antiquities / ([London] : The British Museum,), by British Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to the exhibition rooms of the departments of natural history and antiquities / ([London] : Printed by order of the Trustees, 1859-1878), by British Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on the British Museum, National Gallery, and National Record Office, with suggestions for their improvement. (London, 1849), by James Fergusson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Yalḳuṭ ha-Makhiri ʻal sefer Zekharyah : ḳovets maʾamre ḥakh. z.l. ha-mefuzarim ba-Talmud u-midrashim ... / (London : [s.n.], 1909), by Makir ben Aba Mari and A. W. Greenup (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The bronzes of Siris now in the British Museum ; an archaeological essay / (London : Printed for the Society of Dilettanti by W. Nicol, 1836), by Peter Oluf Brøndsted and British Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of the founders of the British Museum: with notices of its chief augmentors and other benefactors, 1570-1870. (London : Trübner and co.; New York, J.W. Bouton, 1870), by Edward Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoire, lettres et rapports relatifs au cours de langues malaye et javanaise fait à la Bibliothèque royale pendant les années 1840-41, 1841-42, et à deux voyages littéraires entrepris en Angleterre, pendant les années 1838 et 1840 / (Paris : B. Duprat, 1843), by Edouard Dulaurier (page images at HathiTrust)
• List of catalogues, guide books, and other publications published by the Trustees of the British Museum ... / ([London] : The Museum, [1922]), by British Museum and British Museum. List of the British Museum publications (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Handbook to the library of the British Museum : containing a brief history of its formation, and of the various collections of which it is composed ; descriptions of the catalogues in present use ; classed lists of the manuscripts, etc ; and a variety of information indispensable for the "readers" at that institution ; with some account of the principle libraries in London / (London : John Russell Smith, 1854), by Richard Sims (page images at HathiTrust)
• Animadversions on the library and catalogues of the British Museum; a reply to Mr. Panizzi's statement ... / (London, R. Bentley, 1846), by Nicholas Harris Nicolas and Anthony Panizzi (page images at HathiTrust)
• A handbook for readers at the British museum / (London : Longmans, Green, and Co., 1866), by Thomas Nichols (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collations from the Harleian ms. of Cicero 2682, (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1891), by Albert Curtis Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Analecta Nicaena : fragments relating to the Council of Nice : the Syriac text, from an ancient Ms. in the British Museum / (London ; and Edinburgh : Williams and Norgate, 1857), by B. Harris Cowper and British Museum. Manuscript. Additional 14528 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reading-room and libraries. With a plan. (London [Printed by W. Clowes and sons, ltd.], 1884), by British Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• A second letter to the Earl of Ellesmere : on the management of the library of printed books in the British Museum / (London : [s.n.], 1849), by John Edward Gray and Francis Egerton Ellesmere (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbook to the antiquities in the British Museum : being a description of the remains of Greek, Assyrian, Egyptian and Etruscan art preserved there, with numerous illustrations / (London : J. Murray, 1851), by W. S. W. Vaux and British Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to an exhibition of mezzotint engravings, chiefly from the Cheylesmore Collection / ([London : The Museum], 1905), by British Museum, Sidney Colvin, and Freeman M. O'Donoghue (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of Halticidæ in the collection of the British Museum. (London, Printed by order of the trustees, 1860), by Hamlet Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• A letter to Benjamin Hawes, Esq., M.P. : being strictures on the minutes of evidence taken before the Select Committee on the British Museum; with an appendix, containing heads of inquiry respecting the improvement of the Museum / (London : E. Wilson, 1836), by Edward Edwards, B. Hawes, and Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the British Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• The general contents of the British Museum : with remarks : serving as a directory in viewing that noble cabinet. (London : Printed for R. and J. Dodsley ... , 1762), by Robert Dodsley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of the library of the late Dr. Richard Garnett, C.B. ... comprising a large collection of modern poetry, books and pamphlets relating to the British Museum ... works by Percy B. Shelley ... which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge ... on ... the 6th of December, 1906 ... ([London, 1906]), by Richard Garnett and England) Sotheby & Co. (London (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to the exhibition galleries of the British museum, Bloomsbury : departments of printed books, manuscripts, prints and drawings, coins and medals, Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities, Greek and Roman antiquities, British and medieval antiquities and ethnography. ([London] : Printed by order of the Trustees, 1883), by British Museum and Edward Augustus Bond (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to the exhibition galleries of the British Museum (Bloomsbury). ([London] The Trustees, 1903), by British Museum and Edward Maunde Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A guide to the exhibition galleries of the British Museum (Bloomsbury). (London : Printed by order of the Trustees, 1899), by British Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les trois musées de Londres: le British Museum, la National Gallery, le South Kensington Museum. Étude statistique et raisonnée de leurs progrès, de leurs richesses, de leur adminstration et de leur utilité pour l'instruction publique, (Paris, Chez l'auteur, 1861), by Henry de Triqueti (page images at HathiTrust)
• A handy-book of the British Museum, for every-day readers. (London, Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1870), by Thomas M. Nichols (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettres écrites de Londres à Rome, et adressées à M. Canova, sur les marbres d'Elgin, ou les sculptures du temple de Minerve à Athènes. (Rome, 1818), by M. Quatremère de Quincy and Antonio Canova (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'art asiatique au British Museum : sculpture et peinture / (Paris : G. Van Oest, 1925), by Laurence Binyon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Remarkable bindings in the British Museum, selected for their beauty or historic interest, (London, S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington; [etc., etc.], 1889), by Henry B. Wheatley and Joseph Cundall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nonius Marcellus De compendiosa doctrina, Harleian ms. 2719, (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1882), by John Henry Onions (page images at HathiTrust)
• Treasures of the British Museum. Historical and descriptive notes respecting some of the things to look at in a day's visit. (London, 1892), by William J. Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über die sprache und metrik der mittelenglischen weltlichen und geistlichen lyrischen lieder des Ms. Harl. 2253. (Braunschweig : [s.n.], 1884), by August Schlüter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Miscellaneous Assyrian texts of the British museum, with textual notes; (Leipzig, E. Pfeiffer, 1887), by Samuel Alden Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les reliures remarquables du Musée Britannique : au point de vue de l'art et de l'histoire / (Paris : Gruel et Engelmann ; Londres : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle et Rivington, 1889), by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Joseph Cundall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Classical texts from papyri in the British Museum, including the newly discovered poems of Herodas; (London, Printed by order of the Trustees [Oxford, Clarendon Press], 1891), by British Museum. Department of Manuscripts, Frederic G. Kenyon, British Museum. Manuscript. (Papyri), and British Library. Manuscript. (Papyri) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Genesismosaiken von S. Marco in Venedig und ihr verhältniss zu den miniaturen der Cottonbibel, nebst einer untersuchung über den ursprung der mittelalterlichen Genesisdarstellung besonders in der byzantinischen und italienischen kunst. (Helsingfors, Druckerei der Finnischen litteratur-gesellschaft, 1889), by J. J. Tikkanen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pages in facsimile from a layman's prayer-book in English about 1400 A.D. : containing mediaeval versions of the Lord's prayer, Te Deum, Magnificat, etc. / (London : Rivingtons, 1890), by Henry Littlehales (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbook to the ethnographical collections. ([London], 1925), by British Museum. Dept. of Oriental Antiquities and of Ethnography, Thomas Athol Joyce, and Hermann Justus Braunholtz (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bible student in the British museum. A descriptive guide to the principal antiquities which illustrate and confirm the sacred history. (London, New York [etc.] Cassell & company, limited, 1890), by J. G. Kitchin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Heliand manuscript, cotton Caligula A. VII in the British museum, a study, (Oxford, The Clarendon press, 1925), by Robert Priebsch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Relief des Archelaos von Priene / (Berlin : G. Reimer, 1903), by Carl Watzinger and British Museum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Guide to the specimens of the horse family (Equidæ) exhibited in the Department of zoology, British museum (Natural history) ... (London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1907), by British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology and Richard Lydekker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of the manuscript maps, charts, and plans, and of the topographical drawings in the British Museum. (London : Printed by order of the Trustees, 1844-61), by British Museum. Dept. of Manuscripts, Frederic Madden, and John Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Summary guide to the exhibition galleries of the British Museum ... ([London] Printed by order of the Trustees, 1914), by British Museum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Essays in librarianship and bibliography, (London, G. Allen, 1899), by Richard Garnett (page images at HathiTrust)
• A full account and collation of the Greek cursive codex Evangelium 604 (Egerton 2610 in the British Museum) : with two facsimiles : together with ten appendices . . . / (London : David Nutt, 1890), by H. C. Hoskier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The British museum library. ([New York : R. R. Bowker co., 1913]), by Theodore Wesley Koch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hebrew illuminated Bibles of the IXth and Xth centuries : (Codices or. Gaster, nos.150 and 151); and a Samaritan scroll of the law of the XIth century (codex or. Gaster, no.350). Together with eight plates of facsimiles of these manuscripts and of fragments from the Geniza in Egypt / (London : Printed by Harrison and Sons, 1901), by Moses Gaster (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Reading room and new library : With a plan. (London : Printed by order of the Trustees [by W. Clowes and sons, limited], 1896), by British Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Foreign bookbindings in the British Museum : illustrations of sixty-three examples selected on account of their beauty or historical interest with introduction and descriptions /, by British Museum. Department of Printed Books, William Griggs, William Younger Fletcher, and Thomas & Archibald Constable (Firm) printer, contrib. by Trench Kegan Paul (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hebrew illuminated Bibles of the IXth and Xth centuries (codices or. Gaster, no. 150 and 151). (London : Printed by Harrison and sons, 1901), by Moses Gaster (page images at HathiTrust)
• The British Museum: its history and treasures : a view of the origins of that great institution, sketches of its early benefactors and principal officers, and a survey of the priceless objects preserved within its walls / (Boston : L.C. Page, 1911), by Henry C. Shelley (page images at HathiTrust)
• A description of the collection of ancient terracottas in the British Museum; with engravings. (London, Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., 1810), by British Museum Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities and Taylor Combe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gallery of antiquities selected from the British Museum / (London : J. Weale, [1842]), by British Museum. Dept. of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities, Samuel Birch, Joseph Bonomi, and F. Arundale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum. (London : Printed by G. Woodfall, 1850), by British Museum (page images at HathiTrust)
• A catalogue of the Greek coins in the British Museum. (London, 1873-), by British Museum. Department of Coins and Medals (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A popular handbook to the Greek and Roman antiquities in the British museum, (London, New York, Macmillan and co., limited, 1903), by Edward Tyas Cook and British Museum Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Annual report of the general progress of the museums ... with a return of the number of persons admitted to the museums, and a statement of the principal objects added to the collection ... (London, H. M. Stationery Office, [1879-1939]), by British Museum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Bible and the British Museum / (London : Morgan & Scott, 1909), by Ada R. Habershon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of the founders of the British museum: with notices of its chief augmentors and other benefactors. 1570-1870. (London, Trübner and co.;, 1870), by Edward Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• A review of "An inquiry in the genuineness of the manuscript corrections in Mr. J. Payne Collier's annotatated Shakespeare, folio, 1632; and of certain Shaksperian documents likewise published by Mr. Collier." (New York, Printed for private circulation by C. W. Frederickson, 1860), by William Hepworth Dixon and John Payne Collier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memories of the British Museum. (London : R. Bentley and Son, 1872), by Robert Cowtan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The British museum reading room; (London, Grafton and co., 1912), by Robert Alexander Peddie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The British museum library, (London : Grafton & co.; White Plains, N.Y., H.W. Wilson co., 1916), by Gertrude Burford Rawlings (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, Part 2 of 2: With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870., by Edward Edwards (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lives of the Founders of the British Museum, Part 1 of 2: With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870., by Edward Edwards (Gutenberg ebook)
• Essays in Librarianship and Bibliography, by Richard Garnett (Gutenberg ebook)
• On the Supply of Printed Books from the Library to the Reading Room of the British Museum, by Anthony Panizzi (Gutenberg ebook)
• How to See the British Museum in Four Visits, by Blanchard Jerrold (Gutenberg ebook)

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