An 18th-century pocket library
18th November 2020
With the Boston book fair now behind me, I’ve now got time to focus on cataloguing some recent acquisitions and thought I’d share one with you. This is a rare eighteenth-century perspective view depicting a miniature contemporary library, complete with library users reading, discoursing, or simply admiring the shelves. Such Guckkastendioramen (or ‘peepshows’ as they […]
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