Collecting the Past: British Collectors and Their Collections from the 18th to the 20th Centuries

ISBN-13: 9780815382348 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 144 str.

Toby Burrows; Cynthia Johnston

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"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