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THE LIBRARY
A Catalogue of Wonders
THE LIBRARY: A CATALOGUE OF WONDERS is a fascinating and engaging exploration of libraries as places of beauty and wonder; a celebration of books as objects and of bookish spaces; and an account of how the idea of the library continues to possess our imagination.
Libraries are much more than mere collections of books. The best are magical, fabled places. This book explores the libraries, real and fictitious, whose fame has become part of the cultural wealth they are designed to preserve.
Some still exist today, such as the Bodleian, the Folger and the Smithsonian; some are lost, such as Aristotle's library, and those of Herculaneum and Alexandria; some have been sold or dispersed, such as the Cottonian, Roxburghe and Ashley libraries; and some never existed, such as the libraries of Middle Earth, Umberto Eco's mediaeval library labyrinth in The Name of the Rose, and libraries imagined by John Donne, Jorge Luis Borges, François Rabelais and Carlos Ruiz Zafón.
Stuart Kells tells the stories of these and other librariestheir creators, their prizes, their secrets and their fate. Ancient libraries, grand baroque libraries, scientific libraries, memorial libraries, personal libraries, clandestine libraries.
Stuart Kells is an author, bibliophile and book-trade historian. His 2015 book, Penguin and the Lane Brothers, was shortlisted for the Ashurst Business Literature Prize. An authority on rare books, he has written and published on many aspects of print culture and the book world. Stuart lives in Melbourne with his family. He is also writing a book for us about Shakespeare's library.
Libraries are much more than mere collections of books. The best are magical, fabled places. This book explores the libraries, real and fictitious, whose fame has become part of the cultural wealth they are designed to preserve.
Some still exist today, such as the Bodleian, the Folger and the Smithsonian; some are lost, such as Aristotle's library, and those of Herculaneum and Alexandria; some have been sold or dispersed, such as the Cottonian, Roxburghe and Ashley libraries; and some never existed, such as the libraries of Middle Earth, Umberto Eco's mediaeval library labyrinth in The Name of the Rose, and libraries imagined by John Donne, Jorge Luis Borges, François Rabelais and Carlos Ruiz Zafón.
Stuart Kells tells the stories of these and other librariestheir creators, their prizes, their secrets and their fate. Ancient libraries, grand baroque libraries, scientific libraries, memorial libraries, personal libraries, clandestine libraries.
Stuart Kells is an author, bibliophile and book-trade historian. His 2015 book, Penguin and the Lane Brothers, was shortlisted for the Ashurst Business Literature Prize. An authority on rare books, he has written and published on many aspects of print culture and the book world. Stuart lives in Melbourne with his family. He is also writing a book for us about Shakespeare's library.
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Published 2017-09-01 by Text Publishing |