Contents:

Contents: 1. Introduction, Toby Burrows and Cynthia Johnston. 2. Creating and Keeping a National Treasure - The Changing Uses of Sloane's Collection, Alice Marples. 3. A Wonderful Range of Mind - The Ruskin Collection, Stephen Wildman. 4. Beyond 'Vello-mania' - A New Look at Sir Thomas Phillipps, Toby Burrows. 5. Sydney Cockerell - A Bibliophile Director-Collector, Stella Panayotova. 6. Mr and Mrs Alfred Chester Beatty, Mr and Mrs Henry Yates Thompson and Judgements about the Quality of Western Manuscripts, c. 1916-1941, Laura Cleaver. 7. Buying History - Chester Beatty and the Golden Age of American Book Collecting, Danielle Magnusson. 8. The Post-Industrial Collector - The Books and Coins of Robert Edward Hart, Cynthia Johnston. 9. Mummifying collections - An Institutional Overview, Karen Attar. 10. Conclusion, Toby Burrows and Cynthia Johnston. (Routledge Focus)

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