'There never was such a collector since the world began': A new look at Sir Thomas Phillipps

Toby Burrows

doi:10.4324/9781351208550-4

'There never was such a collector since the world began': A new look at Sir Thomas Phillipps

Toby Burrows

School of Humanities

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When Sir Thomas Phillipps died in 1872, the Athenaeum was fulsome in its obituary for him. Not only was he ‘the greatest book collector of modern times’; he was also a ‘great scholar’ – ‘one of the most learned men of the age.’ All in all, ‘there never was such a collector since the world began.’ This obituary was all the more remarkable for having being written by his son-in-law, J. O. Halliwell, from whom he had been bitterly estranged for almost 30 years.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Collecting the past
Subtitle of host publication	British collectors and their collections from the 18th to the 20th centuries
Editors	Toby Burrows, Cynthia Johnston
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Taylor & Francis
Chapter	4
Pages	45-62
Number of pages	18
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9781351208543
ISBN (Print)	9780815382348
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351208550-4
Publication status	Published - 15 Aug 2018

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Collecting the past: British collectors and their collections from the 18th to the 20th centuries. ed. / Toby Burrows; Cynthia Johnston. 1st. ed. London : Taylor & Francis, 2018. p. 45-62.

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