Collecting the past : British collectors and their collections from the 18th to the 20th centuries /: British collectors and their collections from the 18th to the 20th centuries. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Toby Burrows, Cynthia Johnston.
• Editors: Burrows, Toby; (Project director), Johnston, Cynthia
• Contents: 1. Collecting the Past: Manuscript and Book Collecting in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; Toby Burrows and Cynthia Johnston 2. Creating and Keeping a National Treasure: the Changing Uses of Hans Sloane’s Collection in the Eighteenth Century; Alice Marples 3. Sarah Sophia Banks: A ‘truly interesting collection of Visiting Cards and Co.’; Arlene Leis 4. ‘There never was such a collector since the world began’: a new look at Sir Thomas Phillipps; Toby Burrows 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; Laura Cleaver and Danielle Magnusson 6. Sydney Cockerell: a Bibliophile Director-Collector; Stella Panayotova 7. Spending a Fortune: Robert Edward Hart, bibliophile and numismatist, an industrialist collector in Blackburn, Lancashire; Cynthia Johnston 8. Ossified Collections: the Past Encapsulated in British Institutions Today; Karen Attar
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 790.1320941; Collectors and collecting -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Collectors and collecting -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Collectors and collecting -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351208536; 1351208535
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.