The data we collect plays a central role in our professional development, and continues to improve our curriculum.
Mr. Field, a former schoolteacher, collected playing cards, and had reason to think that his 6,000 decks might be the world's largest agglomeration of them.
Then, as a musical project he called Invisible System, he started tinkering — extensively and transformatively — with what he collected, playing guitar, bass and synthesizers and adding collaborators.
Snoo Wilson's collected plays constitute a glorious Corybantic frieze covering vast tracts of human experience, filtered through an imagination that took in anthropology, history, physics, alchemy, mathematics, painting and the occult.
But we should remember that the Italian Medici family, whose taste in art and thirst for extravagant collecting played a vital part in the Italian Renaissance, were bankers by trade, and shrewd investors by temperament.
In an introduction to a volume of his collected plays, Michael Frayn explained the number of ways in which a work can be classified.
The collection also includes a first folio edition of William Shakespeare's collected plays, published in 1623, seven years after his death -- the primary source of our knowledge concerning Shakespeare's texts.
Later copies of the second state, with minor retouching, were also printed from the plate by Thomas Cotes in 1632, for Robert Allot's Second Folio, a new edition of the collected plays.
My advance copy of the book is so full of dog-eared pages, highlighted passages and marginalia that it looks like a scholar's copy of Shakespeare's collected plays.
I have a friend who collects playing cards--she has hundreds of packs.
