Collecting the Past

British Collectors and their Collections from the 18th to the 20th Centuries
Herausgeber: Burrows, Toby; Johnston, Cynthia

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Collecting the Past brings together the latest research on several significant British collectors from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Considering the aims and motives that led these collectors to assemble such remarkable collections, the book also examines the fate of these collections after the collectors' deaths.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9780815382348
• ISBN-10: 0815382340
• Artikelnr.: 53981608

Autorenporträt

Toby Burrows is Senior Researcher at the University of Oxford, UK, and a Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia. Cynthia Johnston is Lecturer in the History of the Book and Communications at the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Collecting the Past: Manuscript and Book Collecting in the Nineteenth
and Twentieth Centuries
2. Creating and Keeping a National Treasure: The Changing Uses of Hans
Sloane's Collection in the Eighteenth Century
3. Sarah Sophia Banks: A 'truly interesting collection of Visiting Cards
and Co.'
4. 'There never was such a collector since the world began': a new look at
Sir Thomas Phillipps
5. American Collectors and the Trade in Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts in
London, 1919-1939: J. P. Morgan Junior, A. Chester Beatty and Bernard
Quaritch Ltd.
6. Sydney Cockerell: a Bibliophile Director-Collector
7. Spending a Fortune: Robert Edward Hart, bibliophile and numismatist, an
industrialist collector in Blackburn, Lancashire
8. Ossified Collections: the Past Encapsulated in British Institutions