The Library: A World History

An absolute joy to wander through in spare time. Every page has beauty.

This is a really nice book. It is big, colourful, well made, with lots of interesting content. Good buy.

Brilliant

This is a coffee-table book with brilliant illustrations of some of the most beautiful libraries in the world. For that reason alone, it makes an ideal present; especially, perhaps, for that person who seems already to have everything. Moreover the text is scholarly and the history contained in it is fascinating. The oldest libraries featured are of clay tablets with cuneiform inscriptions; the most modern are very high-tech indeed (the British Library, for instance). In between are some magnificent temples of learning, such as Trinity College Dublin's Library and the Bodleian. Enjoy it at leisure, when you have time to linger over the descriptions and illustrations.

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