The making of the Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge
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The making of the Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge
Cambridge University Press, 1995
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University of Tsukuba Library, Library on Library and Information Science
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Includes index
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Description
The Library at Trinity College, designed by Sir Christopher Wren and completed in 1695, is known all over the world for its books, its architecture, and its sculpture. Each of these aspects is authoritatively examined in this volume, as David McKitterick, Howard Colvin, and Malcolm Baker explore the ways in which seventeenth-century ideas were modified and extended until, by the early nineteenth century, the Library had achieved the coherent appearance which it has today. Their discussion is accompanied by numerous illustrations, including reproductions of all of Wren's surviving drawings of the Library.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction David MCKitterick
- 2. The building Howard Colvin
- 3. Books and other collections David MCKitterick
- 4. The portrait sculpture Malcolm Baker
- 5. Postscript David MCKitterick.
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