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

Blom, Philipp

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140294805 ISBN 13 : 9780140294804

Editeur : Penguin Books Ltd, 2003

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Philipp Blom has written two novels and is a widely published journalist. He has worked as an historian and a book editor.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0140294805
• ISBN 13: 9780140294804
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288