GRENVILLE, Thomas [1755-1846]. 'The Grenville Library'. Scope:
Approximately 16,000 works (in 20,240 volumes) collected by the
statesman and British Museum Trustee Thomas Grenville. The
collection contains printed books from the 15th to 19th centuries,
and complements the King's Library in terms of incunabula and
post-incunabula, early voyages, bibles, vernacular poetry and
romances (especially Italian and Spanish), and English literature.
The collection is particularly noted for its fine bindings.
Bequeathed to the Museum in 1846. Although part of the Grenville
Library, the volumes at G.20276-78 were absent from the collection
when it arrived at the British Museum. They were subsequently
acquired though the book trade by either the British Museum or the
British Library.
Page 281: 'zii' corrected to 'zü'. 'zu' may have been better, but
'zü' is used in the entry above, 'Gedrucht zü Augspurg' and now used
here, 'Getruckt zü Strassburg', to match. The entries are from 1482
and 1484, when spelling was more or less invented to suit the
writer's personal preferences.