Edward Miller, Prince of Librarians: The Life and Times of Antonio Panizzi (London: The British Library Publications, 1988).
Edmund Gosse, "A First Sight of Tennyson," in Portraits and Sketches (London: William Heinemann, 1912).
Quoted by Ann Thwaite in Edmund Gosse: A Literary Landscape (London: Martin Secker and Warburg, 1984).
Quoted by Humphreys in A National Library in Theory and in Practice.
Quoted by Harris in The Reading Room.
Judith Flanders, "The British Library's Action Plan," in The Times Literary Supplement (London, 2 September, 2005).
Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin, L'apparition du livre (Paris: Albin Michel, 1958).
Maud Stephan-Hachem, La Bibliotheque Nationale du Liban, entre les aleas de l'histoire et l'acharnement de quelques-uns. (Paris: Bulletin des bibliotheques de France, ENSSIB, January 2005).
Blaine Harden, "For Immigrants, U.S. Still Starts at a Library," in The International Herald Tribune (Paris, 29 April, 1998).
the library as home
Bram Stoker, Dracula, introduction, notes and bibliography by Leonard Wolf (New York: Clarkson Potter, 1975), chapter 3.
Ibid., chapter 2.
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, introduction and notes by Leonard Wolf (New York: Clarkson Potter, 1977); Vol. II, chapter 4.
Ibid., volume III, chapter 7.
Ibid., volume II, chapter 4.
Ibid., chapter 6.
These words ("Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay/ To mould me man? Did I solicit thee/ From darkness to promote me?") are from Paradise Lost, Book 3, and were set as an epigraph on the title page of the first volume of Shelley's Frankenstein. Leonard
Wolf, annotator of Mary Shelley's novel, has this to say about the monster's touching, perfect words: "As an epigraph (or an epitaph) for humanity, 'Pardon this intrusion' is unsurpassed."
Shelley, Frankenstein, volume II, chapter 7.
Seneca, "On the Shortness of Life," in The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca.
Plutarch, Moralia, Vol. IV, ed. and trans. Frank Cole Babbitt (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press and William Heinemann Ltd, i972).
Dante, De vulgari eloquentia, introduction, translation and notes by Vittorio Coletti (Milan: Garzanti, i99i).
Erasmus von Rotterdam, "Adagen" (Festina lente), in Ausgewahlte Schriften, ed. W. Welzig (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, i967-i969); ii:i:i.
Steven Wilson, Related Strangers: Jewish-Christian Relations, 70 to 170 CE (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, i995).
"Alors que dans la modalite du temps, elle presentifiait l'Antiquite grecque et arabe comme modeles culturels exemplaires, dans celle de l'espace, elle s'acharnait a reunir ce qui etait disperse et a rapprocher ce qui etait eloigne." "Rendre visible l'invisible ... ce souci de possession du monde." Touati, L'armoire a sagesse.
"Defiez-vous de ces cosmopolites qui vont chercher loin dans leurs livres des devoirs qu'ils dedaignent de remplir autour d'eux. Tel philosophe aime les Tartares, pour etre dispense d'aimer ses voisins." Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile ou de l'education, Book I.
Thomas Traherne, Centuries of Meditations (London, i908); L29.
Hermann Broch, Der Tod des Vergil (i945).
Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, edited with an introduction by Geoffrey Keynes (London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, i940); I:6.
Richard Rorty, "The Inspirational Value of Great Works of Literature," in Raritan, volume i6, no. i (New Brunswick, NJ: i996).
Naude, Advispour dresser une bibliotheque.
conclusion
Ellibro de los veinticuatro filosofos, ed. Paolo Lucentini, trans. Cristina Serna and Jaume Portulas (Madrid: Siruela, 2000).
I thank Edgardo Cozarinsky for this information. Vladimir Nabokov/Elena Sikorskaja, Nostalgia, letter of 9 October, 1945 (Milano: Rosellina Archinto, i989).
"Lapresence de la bibliotheque est le signe que l'univers est encore tenupour pensable." Jean Roudaut, Les dents de Berenice: Essaisurla representation et l'evocation des bibliotheques (Paris: Deyrolle Editeur, i996).
The First Epistle General of John, 2:16.
Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower (London: HarperCollins,
i995).
Northrop Frye, Notebooks.
Image Credits
Title page (Pp. ii—iii) Aby Warburg's Library, Author's collection; P. i inscription, Author's collection; P. 8, top library at Le Presbytere, Author's collection; bottom library of the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, Author's collection; P. 10 stained-glass window, Author's collection; P. 11 Long Hall library, Author's collection; P. 13 boat palace, photograph provided by www.downtheroad.org The Ongoing Global Bicycle Adventure; P. 16 Montaigne's tower, photograph, Michael Sympson; P. 21 tower of Babel, Copyright © The British Library, Egerton, 1894; P. 23 Library of Alexandria, Mohamed Nafea / Bibliotheca Alexandrina; P. 38 Pepys's bookcase, courtesy ofhttp://www.furniturestyles.net/european/english/misc/ oak-bookcase-pepys.jpg; P. 46 literatura de cordel, Author's collection; P. 48 Yongle Dadian, © Wason Collection on East Asia, Cornell University; P. 57 scroll shelf, Author's collection; P. 58 Melvil Dewey, © 2003, from Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science by Winifred B. Linderman. Reproduced by permission of Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, LLC; P. 69 library steps, reprinted from Percy D. Macquoid, Dictionary ofEnglish Furniture, (Wappingers' Falls, N.Y., 2000), p. 390; P. 72 Patrice Moore's apartment, courtesy of http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2004/ 01/06/disposophobia.php; P. 74 Library of Congress, Jim Higgins, Library of Congress; P. 76 Domesday Book, The National Archives, ref. E31/1, E31/2; P. 80, left title page, Author's collection; right a stupa, © The Trustees of the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin; P. 87 "Writing," The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library/ University of Toronto; P. 93 library at Wolfenbuttel, Olgemalde der Rotunde, Innenansicht; P. 95 Ashurbanipal, © The Trustees of the British Museum; P. 101 Carnegie cartoon, provided courtesy HarpWeek; P. 103 bookplate, photograph, G. Blaikie; P. 108 a book burning in Warsawa, Indiana, Times-Union (Warsaw, IN); P. 111 book burning cartoon, Author's collection; P. 113 warning sign, Author's collection; P. 119 Archbishop Juan de Zumarraga, courtesy of http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/juan-zumarraga.htm; P. 130 Toronto Reference Library, Toronto Public Library (TRL); P. 132, top the King's Library, copyright © The British Library, 60.g.i2; bottom Biblioteca de Catalunya, photograph, S0ren Lauridsen, 2006; Pp. 134-35 (top) Freie Universitat, © Foster and Partners; P. 135 Bibliotheque Nationale de France, © Dominique Perrault/SODRAC (2006); P. 136, top ground plan of the library at Wolfenbuttel, Lambert Rosenbusch, Wolfenbuttel, Former Rotunda of the Library, Figure of Proportion after Serlio, Primo Libro de Geometria p i3v, Nicolini Vinetia (1551) Industrial Design 04, Thomas Helms Verlag Schwerin 2000, p7; bottom layout for library in a Carolingian monastery, Author's collection; Pp. i40-4i Boullee's ideal design for a library, Author's collection; P. i42 Salle Labrouste, photography by Diane Asseo Griliches © Library: The Drama Within (University of New Mexico Press, i996); P. i46 Reading Room, Author's collection; P. i47 Panizzi's sketch, Author's collection; P. i48 stalls, Author's collection; P. i50 Michelangelo's sketch, Author's collection; Pp. i54—55 staircase,