Cabinets For The Curious
Subtitle: Looking Back At Early English Museums (Perspectives on Collecting) (Perspectives on Collecting) (Perspectives on Collecting)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: February 28, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780754605065
Subjects: Museums & Museology; Social history; c 1600 to c 1700; Modern - General; General; Reference; History: World; England; Museums; Europe - Great Britain - General; Cabinets of curiosities; History; Philosophy
First sentence: Objects speak to us and we delight in the ideas they "call up".