From the January 2024 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. When Kenneth Clark purchased William Burges’s Great Bookcase for the Ashmolean Museum in 1933, the popularity of High Victorian art and architecture was at its nadir. What had cost Burges £240 to make in 1859–62 cost Clark only £50 to buy. It was not until 2016 that Burges’s bookcase was finally put on public view. Since then
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