The Domestic
Landscape 1860-1960
Resources in Special Collections
the library
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Rudolph Ackermann 90 plates depicting furniture, taken from
various volumes of Ackermann's Repository of arts etc [London:
1811-1828]
Hepburn q93
A Gothic book-case.
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Rudolph Ackermann 90 plates depicting furniture, taken from
various volumes of Ackermann's Repository of arts etc [London:
1811-1828]
Hepburn q3
Library reading chairs. |
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Rudolph Ackermann 90 plates depicting
furniture, taken from various volumes of Ackermann's Repository of
arts etc [London: 1811-1828]
Hepburn q3
A library table and
chairs |
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Robert Kerr The gentleman's house; or, how to plan English
residences, from the parsonage to the palace London: 1864
Sp Coll 2773
page 209
Library in bays
for convenience, and in order to preserve the domestic character,
it is generally preferable to make use of several smaller apartments
en suite. On this plan the arrangement which is thought most
favourable to considerations of utility is ... to set out a given
width of clear passage-way along the central line of the rooms, and
then to divide the space on each side into a succession of
compartments or bays, by means of tranverse bookcases in pairs back to
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H. J. Jennings Our homes and how to beautify them
London: 1902
RQ 785 fig.
89
Inexpensive library
treatment
your books must be your principal decoration. For warmth of colour,
a sense of restfulness and comfort, and a subtle suggestion of
intellectual enjoyment, there is nothing to equal well-filled
book-shelves (p.205) |
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