The private library : being a more or less compendious disquisition on the history of the architecture and furnishing of the domestic bookroom 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 Scholars 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. A history of the architecture and furnishings of the domestic library from around 2 400 BCE to the present