Untersdorf
Bavarian Monastery, Library, 1762
Wimbourne
Minster, Chained Library 1896
Hereford
Cathedral, Chained Library 1894
picture
of books from an emblem source 1622
SHELVES AND LIBRARIES
01. Martinus Lipenius, Bibliotheca Realis Medica , Frankfurt,
1679 -1685. An interior of great scale and ambition. A couple of men
in the middle distance, are positively cowed by each other's importance.
02. A stock printing block; from Leadenhall Press, 1000
Quaint Cuts undated, c1825
03. Stephen Gooden's Bookplate for the Liverpool Public
Library.
04. P.A.Novelli's decoration to Antonio Gabriel's Poesia
Venice 1785 and a fine conceit on the theme of reading.
05. from Jean Mariette, Architecture Francoise... Paris
1727/38.
06. an obliging Library makes a game of readers' requests
from Boston c1835.
07. drawing by John Leech for PUNCH (c1843) commenting
on the lack of stock to be found at the Seaside, from John Leech's
Drawings of Life and Character, c1870. |