{"product_id":"9781529424010","title":"A Noble Madness","description":"\u003cp\u003eCollectors are often praised for their taste in art or contributions to science, but there can be a darker side - their passion is sometimes driven by dangerous obsession. Roman emperors who lusted after statues; Chinese scholars obsessed with rocks and flowers; fin de siècle dandies surrounded by bibelots. History is full of stories about those who love things more than people, presenting a danger either to themselves or others. In this sweeping history from antiquity to today, James Delbourgo tells the extraordinary story of the mad collector as a cultural figure from the tyrant and idolater to the sexually repressed 'psycho' of the Freudian imagination and the modern-day hoarder.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"James Delbourgo","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55741008806266,"sku":"9781529424010","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/files\/9781529424010_3e224ec0-9b49-45ba-ae12-1ee6f75696ce.jpg?v=1769786358","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9781529424010","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}