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1. Collecting the Past: Manuscript and Book Collecting in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries  2. Creating and Keeping a National Treasure: The Changing Uses of Hans Sloane’s Collection in the Eighteenth Century   3. Sarah Sophia Banks: A ‘truly interesting collection of Visiting Cards and Co.’  4. ‘There never was such a collector since the world began’: a new look at Sir Thomas Phillipps  5. American Collectors and the Trade in Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts in London, 1919-1939: J. P. Morgan Junior, A. Chester Beatty and Bernard Quaritch Ltd.  6. Sydney Cockerell: a Bibliophile Director-Collector  7. Spending a Fortune: Robert Edward Hart, bibliophile and numismatist, an industrialist collector in Blackburn, Lancashire  8. Ossified Collections: the Past Encapsulated in British Institutions