Collecting the Past - British Collectors Their Collections From 18th to 20th Centuries

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.

List 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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Additional text

"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

Product details

• Authors: Toby (EDT)/ Johnston Burrows, Toby Johnston Burrows
• Assisted by: Toby Burrows (Editor), Burrows Toby (Editor), Cynthia Johnston (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9780815382348
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-8234-8
• No. of pages: 154
• Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Collected biographies, Social & cultural history, ART / Museum Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, United Kingdom, Great Britain, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, C 1700 To C 1800