Collecting the past : British collectors and their collections from the 18th to the 20th centuries /
Today's libraries and museums are heavily indebted to the passions and obsessions of numerous individual collectors who devoted their lives to amassing collections of books, manuscripts, artworks and other culturally significant objects. Collecting the Past brings together the latest research o...
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Collecting the past : manuscript and book collecting in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Toby Burrows and Cynthia Johnston
- Creating and keeping a national treasure : the changing uses of Hans Sloane's collection in the eighteenth century / Alice Marples
- Sarah Sophia Banks : a "truly interesting collection of visiting cards and co." / Arlene Leis
- "There never was such a collector since the world began": a new look at Sir Thomas Phillipps / Toby Burrows
- American collectors and the trade in medieval illuminated manuscripts in London, 1919-1939 : J. P. Morgan Junior, A. Chester Beatty and Bernard Quaritch Ltd. / Laura Cleaver and Danielle Magnusson
- Sydney Cockerell : a bibliophile director-collector / Stella Panayotova
- Spending a fortune : Robert Edward Hart, bibliophile and numismatist, an industrialist collector in Blackburn, Lancashire / Cynthia Johnston
- Ossified collections : the past encapsulated in British institutions today / Karen Attar.