The architectural history of the University of Cambridge, and of the colleges of Cambridge and Eton . Fig. 19. One of the bookcases in the south room of the University Library, Cambridge, made 1649. west end. In these compartments the seat is carried along thenorth and south walls as well as along the bookcases. With these bookcases at Peterhouse should be comparedthose in the south room of the University Library, which were 458 THE LIBRARY. put up shortly after 16491. The close general resemblancebetween the two sets, in design and arrangement, will be recog-nised from the illustration (fig.
The architectural history of the University of Cambridge, and of the colleges of Cambridge and Eton . Fig. 19. One of the bookcases in the south room of the University Library, Cambridge, made 1649. west end. In these compartments the seat is carried along thenorth and south walls as well as along the bookcases. With these bookcases at Peterhouse should be comparedthose in the south room of the University Library, which were 458 THE LIBRARY. put up shortly after 16491. The close general resemblancebetween the two sets, in design and arrangement, will be recog-nised from the illustration (fig. 19). The plinth, however, or podium as Professor Willis terms it, has been dropped to theheight of a step, and the carved wing which was used in theformer example to conceal the end of the seat, is here reversed,and used merely as an ornament. No traces of chaining appearon these Fig. 20. Bookcase in the old Library of Kings College, Cambridge, made with the bequest of Nicholas Hobart, 1659. We come next in order of time to the bookcases made forKings College in 1659 and 1677 with the bequests of NicholasHobart and Thomas Crouch2. One of the former (fig. 20), and 1 [History of the Schools, etc., Vol. III. pp. 27, 28.]- [History of Kings College, Vol. I. pp. 538, 539-] BOOKCASES AT KINGS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. 459 two of the latter, still remain in their original positions. Theyhave suffered but slight alterations. These bookcases, whichare precisely similar in style and plan, have several details incommon with those in S. Johns College library, as originally con-structed. Like them, they have a lofty plinth, a broad memberinterposed between the first and second shelf, and a centralvertical pilaster. As at Peterhouse and the University Librarythey are set on a step or podium. With these resemblances
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