George Thomason 1600?-1666
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George THOMASON 1600?-66
Biographical Note
Bookseller; assembled the collection of Civil War pamphlets now known as the Thomason Tracts. These were eventually purchased for the British Museum by George III in 1761.
Sources
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- L. Spencer, The professional and literary connexions of George Thomason, The Library 5th ser 13 (1958), 102-118.
- L. Spencer, 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.
- D. Stoker, George Thomason’s intractable legacy, The Library 6th ser 14 (1992), 337-56.
- D. Stoker and M. Kingston, George Thomason in W. Baker (ed), Pre-19th century British book collectors, 1999, 344-9.