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The private library: being a more or less compendious disquisition on the history of the architecture and furnishing of the domestic bookroom

The private library: being a more or less compendious disquisition on the history of the architecture and furnishing of the domestic bookroom
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ISBN 1584563885 (hardcover)
9781584563884 (hardcover)
Author Byers, Reid 1947-
Title The private library : being a more or less compendious disquisition on the history of the architecture and furnishing of the domestic bookroom / Reid Byers
Publisher New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press, 2021
Physical desc. x, 540 pages ; illustrations (some color), plans ; 27 cm.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references (pages [499]-516) and index.
Contents Introduction: The domestic library -- Pt. 1: The Ur libraries: Sumer and Babylon -- Type one libraries: Egypt and Classical Greece -- Type two libraries: Hellenistic Greece and the Roman Republic -- Type three libraries: the Roman Empire and the early Middle Ages -- Pt. 2: The Middle Ages and the middle kingdom. High and late medieval libraries: private reading in monastery and palace -- The Renaissance: experiments rich and strange -- Private libraries in the East -- Pt. 3: The early modern and the empire. The English country house and its library -- The seventeenth-century scholar's library -- The eighteenth-century family library -- The nineteenth-century social library -- Parallel developments -- Pt. 4: The twentieth century, and the twenty-first. Contemporary private libraries -- The future of the private library -- Appendix A: The time line of the private library -- Appendix B: The library room itself -- Appendix C: The architectural details of the library -- Appendix D: Traditional amenities and charming anachronisms.
Subject Library architecture -- History
Private libraries -- History
Library buildings -- Design and construction -- History
Library decoration -- History
Library fittings and supplies -- History
Intellectual life -- History
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