No comments about Warman's Country Antiques Price Guide.

No comments about The adventures of Superman collecting.

No comments about Know your heirlooms.

No comments about Popular Collecting and the Everyday Self: The Reinvention of Museums? (Leicester Museum Studies).

No comments about Collecting music worldwide.(salsa music recordings on LP format): An article from: Latin Beat Magazine.

1 comments about Landmarks in Print Collecting.

1. 304 pages. Illust B&W & color. The Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum holds one of the world's greatest collections of prints, consisting of more than two million items of exceptional quality. All the major names of Western printmaking are represented, often in complete series and in excellent impressions. This book studies the history of this remarkable collection over the 250 years since the British Museum was founded in 1753. Ten essays by members of the Department are devoted to describing the principal gifts, bequests or purchases that now form the core of the Museum's holdings. The original collectors and benefactors were diverse; they included Sir Hans Sloane, the fashional society physician who founded the British Museum; the Reverend C. M. Cracherode, a shy bibliophile who never left London but who axquired an extraordinary collection of prints by Rembrandt; the lawyer Felix Slade; the lifelong friends William Mitchell and John Malcolm and the Australian born George Salting, who did nothing all of his life but collect, constantly trading one item for another. Around such figures worked the Keepers of the department, using the purchase funds allotted by the government to fill what gaps they perceived: one of these Keepers, Campbell Dodgson, himself became the greatest of twentieth century donors. To these essays are added nine extensive appendices with unpublished documents taken from the Museum's archives. The fullest account ever published of the growth of any part of a British national collectionm this book is an important contribution to the history of print collecitng, tracing the evolution of ideas about the purpose and function of prints and charting changes in taste. It is illustrated with 100 examples of the finest prints from the collections described in the essays.

2 comments about Lunchbox: Inside and Out.

1. I was really surprised by this book, as I have never collected lunch boxes and don't ever intend to, but I still loved it!
   As a fellow collector (of vintage toys) I really appreciated the broad overview of the lunch box collecting world. The categories are divided up well, with boxes from all eras and genres shown. The full colour photos are top notch, with alternate views shown when relevant. The descriptions of each box are especially enjoyable, with many interesting and humorous anecdotes included.
   The only negative thing I could think of was the value/price guide, which uses a certain number of ($) dollar signs to signify approximate worth. I found myself constantly referring back to the start of the book to check values.
   I think this book would appeal to most readers who have a "collector's soul" but I can't tell you whether or not it is valuable to a seasoned lunch box collector, 'cause I aint one!



2. This is a nice colorful book with lots of pictures of classic lunchboxes. This is not a price guide book.

No comments about Toys: Delights from the Past.

1 comments about Master Drawings Rediscovered: Treasures from Prewar German Collections.

1. First to be exhibited to the public were seventy-four Impressionnist and Post-Impressionist paintings, published by Abrams in the acclaimed Hidden Treasures Revealed. Now-in this splendid companion volume and in a second landmark exhibition at the Hermitage-the public can rediscover eighty-nine important drawings by major artists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

No comments about The Consummate Canadian: A Biography of Samuel Weir Q.C.