The Private Library
Subtitle: The History of the Architecture and Furnishing of the Domestic Bookroom
By: Reid Byers
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Oak Knoll Press
Published: 2021
Place of publication: New Castle, Delaware
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 540
ISBN-13: 9781584563884
Subjects: Library architecture; History; Private libraries; Library buildings; Design and construction; Library decoration; Library fittings and supplies; Intellectual life
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
Description: "A history of the architecture and furnishings of the domestic library, from around 2,400 BCE to the present"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The Domestic Library; title: Ancient and Classical Architectures; title: The Ur-Libraries: Sumer and Babylon; title: Type One Libraries: Egypt and Classical Greece; title: Type Two Libraries: Hellenistic Greece and the Roman Republic; title: Type Three Libraries: The Roman Empire and the Early Middle Ages; title: The Middle Ages and the Middle Kingdom; title: High and Late Medieval Libraries: Private Reading in Monastery and Palace; title: The Renaissance: Experiments Rich and Strange; title: Private Libraries in the East; title: The English Country House and Its Library; title: The Seventeenth-Century Scholar's Library; title: The Eighteenth-Century Family Library; title: The Nineteenth-Century Social Library; title: Parallel Developments; title: The Twentieth Century, and the Twenty-First; title: Contemporary Private Libraries; title: The Future of the Private Library; title: Appendix A: The Time Line of the Private Library; title: Appendix B: The Library Room Itself; title: Appendix C: The Architectural Details of the Library; title: Appendix D: Traditional Amenities and Charming Anachronisms.