دانلود کتاب Collecting the Past: British Collectors and their Collections from the 18th to the 20th Centuries

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Cover Title Copyright Contents List of figures Notes on contributors 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 today Index