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Author:   Toby Burrows ,  Cynthia Johnston
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9780815382348

ISBN 10:   0815382340
Pages:   154
Publication Date:   11 September 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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The insights and experiences of the contributors to Collecting the Past are major contributions to our understanding both of book history and of the history of the institutions which are themselves a part of that history. John Feather, Loughborough University

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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.

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