The Design of the English Domestic Library in the Seventeenth Century: Readers and Their Book Rooms
Gwynn, Lucy
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Title
The Design of the English Domestic Library in the Seventeenth Century: Readers and Their Book Rooms
Author(s)
Gwynn, Lucy
Issue Date
2011
Keyword(s)
Library design
Abstract
The seventeenth century saw the increase in size of book collections
in private hands. Domestic library collections were becoming
more visible as important adjuncts to the lives of their socially and
culturally engaged owners. This article explores the ways in which
the practical and intellectual problems of storing books were addressed
in the English home, through inventories and buildings
accounts as well as contemporary literature. The changes in library
furniture design over the course of the century are traced, together
with the emergence of formal organizing systems such as catalogues
and subject classification. Finally, the adoption of a different stylistic
approach is examined.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/31863
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2011.0029
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Copyright 2011 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
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