At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries
At Home with Books is a visual delight, a helpful resource, and an inspiration for every bibliophile with a growing home library. Includes professional advice on editing and categorizing your library; caring for your books; preserving, restoring, and storing rare books; finding out-of-print...
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At Home with Books is a visual delight, a helpful resource, and an inspiration for every bibliophile with a growing home library. Includes professional advice on editing and categorizing your library; caring for your books; preserving, restoring, and storing rare books; finding out-of-print books; and choosing furniture, lighting, and shelving. Full-color photographs.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780517595008 (0517595001)
Publish date: October 31st 1995
Publisher: Potter Style
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
Writing,
Reference,
Language,
Books About Books,
Art,
Culture,
Design,
Photography,
Architecture
At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their LibrariesBy: Estelle Ellis, Caroline Seebohm, and Christopher Simon SykesPublished By: Carol Southern BooksAt Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their LibrariesThis is basically a coffee table book filled with g...
O, that Biedermeier daybed with the stacks of books within fingers' reach, Niall, you're my kind of guy!What I learned . . . Book lovers and their architects often fail to plan for EXPANSION. That's why I do thin the herd occasionally. . .
All about book collections and their owners. Some were simply amazing to see, others not so much. But overall, the book is a delightful way to spend an hour or so. And it highlights just how many different types of collectors and readers there are. I especially liked Paul Getty's castle library and ...
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