To Have and to Hold An Intimate History of Collectors and Collecting

The cabinets of obsessive Renaissance collectors were filled with rhinoceros horns encrusted with rubies and jaws of gigantic fish, stuffed birds in the most extraordinary colors, and glorious seashells of all descriptions. Today's collectors amass everything from Picassos to Pez dispensers. But why? In To Have and To Hold, Philipp Blom explores the passionate history of collecting from the Renaissance to the present.