Reflexions about a collecting by Jacob Berdichevsky

The book about collecting of bookplates. Collection and collectors of ex-librin in Kiev.

published in: 2006, 145×105 mm, edition: 300 items

The instinct of the proprietor and the collector is inherent in each person. All depends on the various reasons and promptings.

The representative of tribe Mumbo-Jumbo collects claws of the killed leopards. Iroquois collects scalps of the ruined people. A kind of dying in an early youth conqueror (from the category «Great») heavy grieves that only half of world is conquered. All of them are representatives of collecting and their collections are the object of all-absorbing pride, self-satisfaction and bragging.

Obligatory condition of any of numerous kinds of collecting is aggression with indispensable will to a victory and final possession. It does not matter of what – whether claws, scalps or the grasped earths and the conquered people.

Jacob Berdichevsky (fragment of introductory article)

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