Collecting the past : British collectors and the collections from the 18th to the 20th centuries / edited by Toby Burrows and Cynthia Johnston.
Published / Created:
London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
Physical Description:
143 pages : illustrations ; cm
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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.
Subject Terms:
Collectors and collecting -- Great Britain -- History.