1st Edition
Collecting the Past British Collectors and their Collections from the 18th to the 20th Centuries
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
Biography
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.
"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
