An edition of The Private Library: The History of the Architecture and Furnishing of the Domestic Bookroom (2021)

The Private Library

The History of the Architecture and Furnishing of the Domestic Bookroom

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An edition of The Private Library: The History of the Architecture and Furnishing of the Domestic Bookroom (2021)

The Private Library

The History of the Architecture and Furnishing of the Domestic Bookroom

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A history of the architecture and furnishings of the domestic library, from around 2,400 BCE to the present

The Private Library is the domestic bookroom: that quiet, book-wrapt space that guarantees its owner that there is at least one place in the world where it is possible to be happy. The story of its architecture extends back almost to the beginning of history and forward toward a future that is in equal parts amazing and alarming.

In this book, Mr. Byers examines with a sardonic eye the historical influences that have shaped the architecture of the private library, and the furnishings, amenities, and delightful anachronisms that make the mortal room into what Borges so famously called Paradise.

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Oak Knoll Press
Language
English
Pages
540

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Library architecture, History, Private libraries, Library buildings, Design and construction, Library decoration, Library fittings and supplies, Intellectual life, Written communication
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Domestic Library
Ancient and Classical Architectures
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
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
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
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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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New Castle, Delaware
Other Titles
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

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Dewey Decimal Class
727/.809
Library of Congress
Z679 .B97 2021, Z679.B97 2020

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Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
540

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL43812882M
ISBN 10
1584563885
ISBN 13
9781584563884
LCCN
2020035727
OCLC/WorldCat
1192304160
Amazon ID (ASIN)
1584563885
Goodreads
56625329

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OL32082916W
LibraryThing
25528767

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