1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
THOMASON, GEORGE (d. 1666), English book and tract collector, was a London bookseller, whose life contains few items of interest save the fact that he was concerned in a royalist plot in 1651. He is famous, however, as the man who brought together the great collection of books and tracts published during the time of the Civil War and the Commonwealth; this was formerly called the " King's Pamphlets," but is now known as the " Thomason Collection." During the years just before the outbreak of war a great number of w…
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- Vol. 26, pp. 868-868