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003			OCoLC
005			20240909204311.0
008			200810t20212021deuae b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2020035727
019			_a1276814719
020			_a9781584563884 _q(hardcover ; _qacid-free paper)
020			_a1584563885 _q(hardcover ; _qacid-free paper)
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035			_a(OCoLC)1192304160
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100	1		_aByers, Reid, _d1947- _eauthor. _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2020044572 _94932
245	1	4	_aThe private library : _bbeing a more or less compendious disquisition on the history of the architecture and furnishing of the domestic bookroom / _cReid Byers.
246	1	4	_aThe private library : _bthe history of the architecture and furnishing of the domestic bookroom
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew Castle, Delaware : _bOak Knoll Press, _c2021.
264		4	_c©2021
300			_ax, 540 pages : _billustrations (some color), plans (some color) ; _c26 cm
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: 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.
520			_a"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"--Publisher's website, viewed May 3, 2022.
520			_a"A history of the architecture and furnishings of the domestic library, from around 2,400 BCE to the present"-- _cProvided by publisher.
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650		0	_aLibrary architecture _xHistory.
650		0	_aPrivate libraries _xHistory. _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001009464 _96401
650		0	_aPrivate libraries _xDesign and construction _xHistory.
650		0	_aLibrary buildings _xDesign and construction _xHistory.
650		0	_aLibrary decoration _xHistory.
650		0	_aLibrary fittings and supplies _xHistory.
650		0	_aIntellectual life _xHistory. _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067166 _95874
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