EDITORS' NOTE

Abstract

Who collects these days? What do people collect? What mechanisms are used to buy and sell collections? When we began contemplating an issue of RBM devoted to collecting one thing seemed certain: the world of collecting has changed dramatically in the more than 50 years since John Carter's Taste and Technique in Book Collecting: A Study of Recent Developments in Great Britain and the United States first appeared. Carter's erudite and elegant tome opens with a quote, in Greek, from the Palatine Anthology that he translates as “who are you and to whom do you speak,” providing the author with . . .