The Queen's library, St James Palace, 1816. William Kent built the library for Queen Caroline in 1737. Bookshelves of leather-bound books, terracotta busts of medieval and Renaissance monarchs. Copperplate engraving by Richard Reeve after a drawing by Charles Wild from William Henry Pyne's The History of the Royal Residences, London, 1816-1819.

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