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The ART of Collecting

or a museum curator, editing is one of the hardest jobs. When Frances Sands, the Sir John Soane’s Museum’s Curator of Drawings and Books, was commissioned to write a book about the architectural drawings in the London institution’s collection, she had to find eighty of the best examples from their holdings of more than 30,000. While Sands recognized the offer to write the book as an honor

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