Collecting the past : British collectors and their collections from the 18th to the 20th centuries /...
Collecting the past : British collectors and their collections from the 18th to the 20th centuries /...
Collecting the past : British collectors and their collections from the 18th to the 20th centuries / edited by Toby Burrows and Cynthia Johnston.
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Full title
Publisher
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
Call Numbers
G 2018/6692
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MMS ID
Language
English
Formats
Physical Description
Physical content
ix, 143 pages ; 23 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Collecting the past : manuscript and book collecting in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Toby Burrows and Cynthia Johnston -- Creating and keeping a national treasure : the changing uses of Hans Sloane's collection in the eighteenth century / Alice Marples -- Sarah Sophia Banks : a "truly in...
Publication information
Publisher
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2019.
Subjects
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Scope and Contents
Summary
"Today's libraries and museums are heavily indebted to the passions and obsessions of numerous individual collectors who devoted their lives to amassing collections of books, manuscripts, artworks, and other culturally significant objects. Collecting the Past brings together the latest research on a wide range of significant British collectors from...
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Full title
Collecting the past : British collectors and their collections from the 18th to the 20th centuries / edited by Toby Burrows and Cynthia Johnston.
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Notes
General note
"Routledge Focus"
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contextual Information
Date Copyright
©2019
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Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
G 2018/6692
Record Identifier
74VKVQbOoOlM
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVQbOoOlM
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ISBN
9780815382348 hardcover alkaline paper
0815382340 hardcover alkaline paper
DDC
069.40941
MMS ID
991024198816102626
