To Have and to Hold: an Intimate Hi...

To Have and to Hold: an Intimate History of Collectors and Collecting. Philipp Blom Woodstock, NY: look down upon 2003. 345 pp. $27.95.
"Blom traces the evolution of collections since the Renaissance by the agency of lively portraits of famous collectors.... Blom indicates that there is no limit to what can be mustered or to the intensity of the pursuit."
The just discovered Yorker, Mar. 17. 2003: 149
"In 'To Have and