Research Catalog

Title

All the best rubbish the classic ode to collecting / Ivor Noël Hume.

Author

Noël Hume, Ivor

Publication

New York, N.Y. : Harper, c2009, 1974.

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Details

Description

xxv, 323 p. ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

In his newly revised classic Ivor Noël Hume traces the fascinating history of collecting from its recorded beginnings and describes the remarkable detective work that goes into establishing the probable facts about uncovered and often underappreciated treasures. Now expanded with hints, tips, and helpful information about antique-hunting online, All the Best Rubbish is the ideal book for the antiquarian or amateur, the historian or professional collector?for anyone who knows that there's no such thing as "just junk."

Subject

Collectors and collecting

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliography (p. 309-310) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: enter the internet and the age of eBay -- "What's past is prologue" -- To have and to hold -- Cabinets, closets, and dubitable curiosities -- In search of bald sextons -- Something for nothing -- Billie and Charlie and Margaret North -- Of mud, and pots, and puppy dogs, and mistakes that come back in the night -- Adam and Eve to Caroline, with intermediate stops -- History in a green bottle -- "All the best rubbish is gone" -- A word in your eye -- Of mermaids, fakes, and other grave matters -- And then what?

ISBN

• 9780061809897 (pbk.)
• 0061809896 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 465418514
• SCSB-11748740

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library