Notice bibliographique
- Notice
Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Byers, Reid (1947-....)
Titre(s) : The private library [Texte imprimé] : being a more or less compendious disquisition on the history of the architecture and furnishing of the domestic bookroom / Reid Byers
Édition : First edition
Publication : New Castle, Delaware : Oak Knoll Press, 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XI, 540 p.) : illustrations (some color), plans (some color) ; 26 cm
Note(s) : "A history of the architecture and furnishings of the domestic library, from around
2,400 BCE to the present"
Sujet(s) : Bibliothèques privées -- Histoire
Bibliothèques privées -- Décoration
Bibliothèques (constructions) -- Aménagement
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-1-58456-388-4. - ISBN 1-58456-388-5 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46790585z
Notice n° :
FRBNF46790585
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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.
