Full text: Lock, stock and barrel

CONTENTS 
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I The Collection as a Means to Physical Security 
2 The Collection as a Means to Distinction 
3 The Collection as a Means to Immortality 
{ The Collection as a Means to Knowledge and Esthetic 
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5 How the Collection Is Born 
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6 The Old Men: Collectors in the Ancient World 
7 A Roman Holiday 
8 Dark Age in the West 
9 Light from the East 
(0 The Italian Renaissance: Rebirth of Western Collecting 
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