Hannås Collection of Scandinavian Books
The British Library Hannås Collection of Scandinavian Books is a collection of over 700 items of Scandinavian literature created by antiquarian bookseller Torgrim Hannås and donated to the British Library in 1984.Torgrim Hannås (28 August 1916 – 20 November 1998) was a Norwegian linguist, intelligence officer and antiquarian bookseller.His father, Torleiv Hannaas, was a book collector and professor at the University Museum of Bergen.In 1957, Torgrim and his wife Linda Saunders (née Morris) began selling books in Bromley as T. & L. Hannas, becoming specialists in Scandinavian literature and 18th-century English literature.[1] In 1984, Hannås donated part of his collection to the British Library.