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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Byers, Reid, 1947- author.

Contributor:

Oak Knoll Press, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Library fittings and supplies.

History.

Library decoration.

Library buildings--Design and construction.

Library buildings.

Library architecture.

Library architecture--History.

Private libraries--History.

Private libraries.

Library buildings--Design and construction--History.

Library decoration--History.

Library fittings and supplies--History.

Intellectual life--History.

Intellectual life.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 540 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 26 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New Castle, Delaware : Oak Knoll Press, 2021.

Summary:

"A history of the architecture and furnishings of the domestic library, from around 2,400 BCE to the present"-- Provided by publisher.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Reference copy retains dust jacket.

ISBN:

9781584563884

1584563885

OCLC:

1192304160