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

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Toby Burrows Cynthia Johnston

Collecting the Past

British Collectors and their Collections from the 18th to the 20th Centuries

Toby Burrows, Cynthia Johnston

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Routledge
30 June 2020

Museums & museology; British & Irish history

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 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.

Contributors 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.

Collecting the Past 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.

Edited by: Toby Burrows, Cynthia Johnston
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367606800
ISBN 10: 0367606801
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 30 June 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Collecting the Past: British Collectors and their Collections from the 18th to the 20th Centuries

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