Curiosities and Texts: The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England by Marjorie Swann

Curiosities and Texts: The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England

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Marjorie Swann

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A craze for collecting swept England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Aristocrats and middling-sort men alike crammed their homes full of a bewildering variety of physical objects: antique coins, scientific instruments, minerals, mu...

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