The Making of the Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge

McKitterick, David \(ed.\)

ISBN 10: 0521443059 / ISBN 13: 9780521443050

Published by Cambridge U. P., 1995

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Cambridge U P, 1995 Hardcover, 4to, illustrated, folddout plates, 153 pages A like-new, unmarked copy in a like, unmarked dust jacket Very Fine +. Seller Inventory # 41119

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Making of the Wren Library, Trinity ...

Publisher: Cambridge U. P.

Publication Date: 1995

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis:

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.

Review:

'This is a book altogether worthy of the great library it honours.' Peter Hoare, Rare Books Newsletter