The architectural history of the University of Cambridge, and of the colleges of Cambridge and Eton . iv. 442, by theRev. Robert Lowes Clarke, , Fellow and Librarian, contains the followingpassage: The bookcases were fitted with reading desks, as at the Bodleian, andthere were fixed oak seats in each recess. These were convenient in some ways, andhelped to make the room seem a place for study rather than a store for materials, butthey made the lower shelves hard of access, and were removed in 1871 to give roomfor new cases.] 448 THE LIBRARY. was utilised for books, but, as these were found
The architectural history of the University of Cambridge, and of the colleges of Cambridge and Eton . iv. 442, by theRev. Robert Lowes Clarke, , Fellow and Librarian, contains the followingpassage: The bookcases were fitted with reading desks, as at the Bodleian, andthere were fixed oak seats in each recess. These were convenient in some ways, andhelped to make the room seem a place for study rather than a store for materials, butthey made the lower shelves hard of access, and were removed in 1871 to give roomfor new cases.] 448 THE LIBRARY. was utilised for books, but, as these were found to be inconvenientof access, the desks and seats were taken away in 1871, anddwarf bookcases provided in front of the windows. If we next examine the library-fittings at Cambridge, weshall find that no library was fitted up at an early date in such amanner as to command the imitation of posterity. Each library,so far as we can judge from the examples which have come downto us, was fitted up according to individual taste, without refer-ence to a common original. Moreover, in several colleges the. Fig. 14. Bookcases and seats in the Library of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, made 1626—45. position of the library has been altered since the original founda-tion, in some cases more than once, and advantage was taken ofeach change to furnish it afresh with new fittings in the style ofthe period. This has been the case at Peterhouse, Clare Hall,Pembroke College, Gonville and Caius College, Corpus ChristiCollege, Magdalene College, S. Catharines Hall, Christs College,and S. Johns College. The same remark applies also to theUniversity Library. BOOKCASES AT TRINITY HALL, CAMBRIDGE. 449 The library of Trinity Hall is that which has been leastaltered. A general description and history of it has been givenalready in the History of the College1. It is on the first floor,65 feet long by 29 feet wide, with eight equidistant windows ineach side-wall, and a window of four lights in the westerngable.
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