At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries

At Home with Books: How Booklovers Live with and Care for Their Libraries
ISBN-10
0517595001
ISBN-13
9780517595008
Category
Books in interior decoration
Pages
248
Language
English
Published
1995
Publisher
Clarkson Potter
Authors
Christopher Simon Sykes, Estelle Ellis, Caroline Seebohm

Description

Presents the personal libraries of forty bibliophiles and offers ideas for library design

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