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  • Elevation of a book-desk and seat in the Library of Trinity Hall,

    The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871

  • Elevation of book-desk in Library of Queens 'College, Cambridge 152 52.

    The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871

  • There is a bookcase of a very modern type, a table with two folio volumes lying upon it, and in the centre a hexagonal book-desk, with a little Gothic turret as in the last example.

    The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871

  • Elevation of a book-desk and seat in the Library of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.] [Illustration: Fig. 65.

    The Care of Books John Willis Clark 1871

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