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

Blom, Philipp

 
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Synopsis

Philipp Blom's TO HAVE AND TO HOLD aims to do for collecting what Charles Sprawson's THE HAUNTS OF THE BLACK MASSEUR did for swimming and Alberto Manguel's A HISTORY OF READING did for books. 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 (as such a book must be) itself something of a work of art.

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À propos 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.

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