{"product_id":"collecting-the-past-british-collectors-and-their-collections-from-the-18th-to-the-20th-centuries-paperback","title":"Collecting the Past: British Collectors and Their Collections from the 18th to the 20th Centuries - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eToby Burrows\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eCynthia Johnston\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToday'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. \u003cem\u003eCollecting the Past\u003c\/em\u003e brings together the latest research on a wide range of significant British collectors from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, including Hans Sloane, Sarah Sophia Banks, Thomas Phillipps, Sydney Cockerell, J. P. Morgan Jr., Alfred Chester Beatty and R. E. Hart. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eContributors to the volume examine the phenomenon of collecting in a variety of settings and across a range of different materials. Considering the aims and motives that led these collectors to assemble such remarkable collections, the book also examines the history of these collections after the collector's death. Particular attention is given to the often complicated relationship between collectors and the public institutions that subsequently came to house their collections. Situated within the framework of cultural collecting more generally, this book offers an authoritative series of essays on key collectors. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eCollecting the Past\u003c\/em\u003e should be most interesting to researchers, academics and postgraduate students engaged in the study of museum studies, book history, manuscript studies, museum history, library history and the history of collecting. Professionals in libraries, museums and galleries will also find the volume of great interest.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eToby Burrows\u003c\/strong\u003e is Senior Researcher at the University of Oxford, UK, and a Senior Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCynthia 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 30, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47457944928509,"sku":"9780367606800","price":60.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/cHdzeVNTSHROZm5pQitxQXhKcmQ5dz09.webp?v=1777249049","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/collecting-the-past-british-collectors-and-their-collections-from-the-18th-to-the-20th-centuries-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}