Curiosities and Texts : : The Culture of Collecting in Early Modern England / / Marjorie Swann.
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, mummified corpses, zoological specimens, plants, ethnog...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Material Texts
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 10 illus. |
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