HOPE, THOMAS ["Anastasius"] (c. 1770-1831), English collector, born in London about 177o, was the eldest son of John Hope of Amsterdam, and was descended from a Scottish family of London and Amsterdam merchants. About the age of eighteen he travelled widely in Europe, Asia and Africa, making a large collection of works of art. On his return to London about 1796 he bought a house in Duchess Street, Cavendish Square. In 1807 he published sketches of his furniture, accompanied by letterpress, in a folio volume, entitled Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, which had considerable influence on interior decora tion, notwithstanding Byron's scornful reference to "House-fur nisher withal, one Thomas bight." Hope's furniture designs were in that pseudo-classical manner known as "English Empire." In 1819 he published anonymously Anastasius, or Memoirs of a Modern Greek, written at the close of the 28th century. It was at first generally attributed to Lord Byron, who told Lady Blessing ton that he wept bitterly on reading it because he had not written it and Hope had. Hope died on Feb. 3, 1831.