Title: Magpies, squirrels& thieves : how the Victorians collected the world /
Authors: Yallop, Jacqueline.
Publisher: Atlantic,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Collectors and collecting Great Britain History; Collectors and collecting Great Britain Biography.
Contents: Catching the collecting bug. 1. Exhibition Road, London, 1862. 2. The useful and the beautiful. 3. A public duty and a private preoccupation -- Making museums: collecting as a career: John Charles Robinson. 4. On the banks of the Seine. 5. The battle of South Kensington. 6. The tricks of the trade. 7. Changing times -- Ransacking and revolution: the European crusade: Charlotte Schreiber. 8. Mrs Schreiber's big red bag. 9. Pushing and panting and pinching their way. 10. The gourd-shaped bottle -- Pride, passion and loss: collecting for love: Joseph Mayer 11. Waiting for the rain to stop. 12 Mummies, crocodiles and shoes for a Queen. 13. The treasures of the north. 14. A larger world -- Fashion, fine dining and forgeries: dealing in society: Murray Marks 15. Rossetti's peacock. 16. A notorious squabble. 17. The fake Flora -- Collecting the Empire: in pursuit of the exotic: Stephen Wootton Bushell. 18. The route to Peking. 19. The promise of the East. 20. Collecting without boundaries.