Title page (Pp. this page-this page) Aby Warburg’s Library, Author’s collection; this page inscription, Author’s collection; this page, library at Le Presbytère, Author’s collection; bottom library of the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, Author’s collection; this page stained-glass window, Author’s collection; this page Long Hall library, Author’s collection; this page boat palace, photograph provided by www.downtheroad.org The Ongoing Global Bicycle Adventure; this page Montaigne’s tower, photograph, Michael Sympson; this page tower of Babel, Copyright © The British Library, Egerton, 1894; this page Library of Alexandria, Mohamed Nafea / Bibliotheca Alexandrina; this page Pepys’s bookcase, courtesy of http://www.furniturestyles.net/european/english/misc/oak-bookcase-pepys.jpg; this page literatura de cordel, Author’s collection; this page Yongle Dadian, © Wason Collection on East Asia, Cornell University; this page scroll shelf, Author’s collection; this page Melvil Dewey, © 2003, from Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science by Winifred B. Linderman. Reproduced by permission of Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, LLC; this page library steps, reprinted from Percy D. Macquoid, Dictionary of English Furniture, (Wappingers’ Falls, N.Y., 2000), p. 390; this page Patrice Moore’s apartment, courtesy of http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2004/01/06/
disposophobia.php; this page Library of Congress, Jim Higgins, Library of Congress; this page Domesday Book, The National Archives, ref. E31/1, E31/2; this page, title page, Author’s collection; right a stupa, © The Trustees of the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin; this page “Writing,” The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library/ University of Toronto; this page library at Wolfenbüttel, Ŏlgemälde der Rotunde, Innenansicht; this page Ashurbanipal, © The Trustees of the British Museum; this page Carnegie cartoon, provided courtesy HarpWeek; this page bookplate, photograph, G. Blaikie; this page a book burning in Warsawa, Indiana, Times-Union (Warsaw, IN); this page book burning cartoon, Author’s collection; this page warning sign, Author’s collection; this page Archbishop Juan de Zumárraga, courtesy of http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/juan-zumarraga.htm; this page Toronto Reference Library, Toronto Public Library (TRL); this page, the King’s Library, copyright © The British Library, 60.g.12; bottom Biblioteca de Catalunya, photograph, Søren Lauridsen, 2006; Pp. this page–this page Freie Universität, © Foster and Partners; this page Bibliothèque Nationale de France, © Dominique Perrault/SODRAC (2006); this page, ground plan of the library at Wolfenbüttel, Lambert Rosenbusch, Wolfenbüttel, Former Rotunda of the Library, Figure of Proportion after Serlio, Primo Libro de Geombetria p 13v, Nicolini Vinetia (1551) Industrial Design 04, Thomas Helms Verlag Schwerin 2000, p7; bottom layout for library in a Carolingian monastery, Author’s collection; Pp. this page–this page Boullée’s ideal design for a library, Author’s collection; this page Salle Labrouste, photography by Diane Asseo Griliches © Library: The Drama Within (University of New Mexico Press, 1996); this page Reading Room, Author’s collection; this page Panizzi’s sketch, Author’s collection; this page stalls, Author’s collection; this page Michelangelo’s sketch, Author’s collection; Pp. this page–this page staircase, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, n. 226/2006, Vesibolo (Scala di Michelangelo) /Microfoto; this page ground plan of Pergamon Library, Author’s collection; this page Habott Library, David Sauveur /Agence VU; this page Dunhuang Caves, courtesy of www.worldtravelgate.net; this page Diamond Sutra, copyright © The British Library, Or 8210/P. 2; this page Kipling portrait, Library of Congress, The Carpenter Kipling Collection, (LC-USZ62–59457); this page Last Jugement fresco, photograph, Thomas Hallon Hallbert; this page Aby Warburg, photograph: Warburg Institute; this page Mnemosyne panel, Aby Warburg, Mnemosyne Atlas, panel 32: ‘Moreska,’ photograph: Warburg Institute; this page Robinson Crusoe, Author’s Collection; this page Biblioburro, © Oscar Monsalve, 2005; this page German prayer book, Author’s collection; this page Birkenau, Russian State Archives of Film and Video Documents; this page Jacob Edelstein, The image of Jacob Edelstein, neg. 5144 © The Jewish Museum in Prague; this page library in Theresienstadt Ghetto, Author’s collection; this page Shah Muhammad Rais, photograph, Ole Berthelsen, TV 2 Nettavisen, Norway; this page Booker T. Washington, Cheynes Studio, Hampton, Virginia, 1903; this page Cossitt Library, Special Collections, University of Maryland Libraries; this page library in Baghdad, Joel Preston Smith, www.joelprestonsmith.com; this page Code of Hammurabi, courtesy of http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/Images/ARTH200/
politics/hammurabi.jpg; this page Borges, © Eduardo Comesana; this page Gargantua, C Lebrecht Music & Arts; this page Rabelais’s house, Author’s collection; this page Sir Thomas Browne, Gwen Raverat, Sir Thomas Browne, 1910, © DACS/SODART 2006; this page Dickens, Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, (LC-USZ62–117829); this page Paul Masson, Author’s collection; this page Captain Nemo’s library, Author’s collection; this page Hitler’s bookplate, Third Reich collection, Rare Books and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress; this page Sir Anthony Panizzi, Picture History, Elliott & Fry, 1870; this page books of the Lebanon National Library, Author’s collection; this page Dracula, Author’s collection; this page Frankenstein, Author’s collection.
