Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Presented at a symposium held in 1990 to celebrate the Getty Museum's acquisition of the only known illuminated copy of The Visions of Tondal, twenty essays address the celebrated bibliophilic activity of Margaret of York; the career of Simon Marmion, a favorite artist of the Burgundian court; and The Visions of Tondal in relation to illustrated visions of the Middle Ages. Contributors include Maryan Ainsworth, Wim Blockmans, Walter Cahn, Albert Derolez, Peter Dinzelbacher, Rainald Grosshans, Sandra Hindman, Martin Lowry, Nigel Morgan, and Nigel Palmer.

1. Introduction -- 2. Early collections of classical art in the Netherlands : the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- 3. C.J.C. Reuvens and the archaeological cabinet in Leiden, 1818 -- 4. Collections and conflicts -- 5. The Greek collections of B.E.A. Rottiers -- 6. Jean Emile Humbert : the quest for Carthage -- 7. Station Livorno : the Etruscan and Egyptian collections -- 8. Forum Hadriani : digging behind the dunes -- 9. The ideal museum : dreams and reality -- 10. End of the pioneer years, 1835-40.