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To Have and to Hold - An Intimate History of Collectors and Collecting

Author
Blom, Philipp
Price
NZ$16.00
Stock
1
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Description

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD is to the history of collecting what Lytton Strachey's EMINENT VICTORIANS is to the Victorian age: not the most thorough treatment, but the most fun. It is a completely engrossing, idiosyncratic, ruminative, meandering, delightful, episodic exploration of the collecting mind from mediaeval times to the present - full of eccentrics, visionaries, heroes and nutcases. It is, like Alberto Manguel's A HISTORY OF READING or Charles Sprawson's THE HAUNTS OF THE BLACK MASSEUR, itself something of a work of art.

Format
Second hand Paperback
ISBN
9780140294804
Catalog
SKU
69245

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