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George THOMASON 1600?-66
Biographical Note
Bookseller; assembled the collection of Civil War pamphlets now known as the Thomason Tracts.
Books
The Thomason Tracts were eventually purchased for The British Museum by George III in 1761.
Sources
- Mendle, M. George Thomason’s intentions, in G. Mandelbrote and B. Taylor (eds), Libraries within the library, 2009, 171-186. P. Hoare (gen.ed.), The Cambridge history of libraries in Britain and Ireland. 3 vols. Cambridge, 2006. II 39.
- Spencer, L. The professional and literary connexions of George Thomason, The Library 5th ser 13 (1958), 102-118.
- Spencer, L. The politics of George Thomason, The Library 5th ser 14 (1959) 11-27.
- Stoker, David. "Thomason, George (c. 1602–1666), bookseller and collector of civil-war tracts." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
- Stoker, D. George Thomason’s intractable legacy, The Library 6th ser 14 (1992), 337-56.
- Stoker, D. and M. Kingston, George Thomason in W. Baker (ed), Pre-19th century British book collectors, 1999, 344-9.