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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The King s Library was the original name applied both to the British Royal Collection of over 60,000 books and to the room in the British Museum that housed them. The books were transferred to the new British Library in 1998, and the room has now been restored to its original glory as one of London's finest and most beautiful neo-Classical interiors. The King s Library is considered one of the most significant collections of the Enlightenment, containing books printed mainly in Britain, Europe and North America from the mid-15th to the early-19th…mehr

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The King s Library was the original name applied both to the British Royal Collection of over 60,000 books and to the room in the British Museum that housed them. The books were transferred to the new British Library in 1998, and the room has now been restored to its original glory as one of London's finest and most beautiful neo-Classical interiors. The King s Library is considered one of the most significant collections of the Enlightenment, containing books printed mainly in Britain, Europe and North America from the mid-15th to the early-19th centuries. The collection was especially rich in classical literature, British and European history, English and Italian literature, religious texts and in examples of early printing, which include include a copy of the Gutenberg Bible and Caxton's first edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.