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A.W. Franks: Nineteenth-century collecting and the British Museum (1997)

Caygill, Marjorie (Editor)
Cherry, John (Editor)

British Museum Press

Publication Date: 1997
Physical Details: xi + 372 pp.; illus.; notes; index

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Description Partial contents: Wilson, David M.: Introduction: Augustus Wollaston Franks: Towards a portrait. ARTHUR MacGREGOR: Collectors, connoisseurs and curators in the Victorian age. Mack, John: Antiquities and the public: The expanding Museum, 1851-96. Caygil, MarjorieL: Franks and the British Museum: The cuckoo in the nest. Cook, Jill: A curator's curator: Franks and the Stone Age collections. Potter, T.W.: Later prehistory and Roman Britain: The formation of the national collections. King, J.C.H.: Franks and ethnography. Caygil, MarjorieL: ``Some recollection of me when I am gone': Franks and the early medieval archaeology of Britain and Ireland. Cherry, John: Franks and the medieval collections. Anderson, R.G.W.: Early scientific instruments and horology.

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Review Bohrer, F. N. (2001) Review of "A.W. Franks: Nineteenth-century collecting and the British Museum". Victorian Studies (p. 298). unapi

Review Wilson, T. (1998) Review of "A.W. Franks: Nineteenth-century collecting and the British Museum". Journal of the History of Collections (pp. 119-20). unapi

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