The Private Library: Being a More or Less Compenious Disquisition on the History of the Architecture and Furnishing of the Domestic Bookroom

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