This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...not much else on it. Very much more might be said to advantage on the subject of the library; but it is time that we wended our way to the bedrooms, and, with a parting description of a most charming apartment, we leave the region of books and writing-tables: " It was a room in a city house; and the upstairs ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...not much else on it. Very much more might be said to advantage on the subject of the library; but it is time that we wended our way to the bedrooms, and, with a parting description of a most charming apartment, we leave the region of books and writing-tables: " It was a room in a city house; and the upstairs drawing-room, very deep and rather narrow, had dreamed it was a library. You entered from the stairway under a portiere of soft green damask looped aside, and trod upon the noiseless velvet of the floor in a room full of sunshine and rich green shadows. Opposite you, except for the mantel, under which a wood-fire smoldered, the room was lined with books--superb ones under glass, familiar ones on open shelves. At the upper end of the room, the outer blinds were closed, and the shades were always drawn over the street windows under their damask draperies; on a console between the windows stood a bronze knight in armor, whose shield was the dark dial of a clock; and here an alcove over the hall doors was rilled with a collection of books in rare and resplendent bindings, together with ancient and curious specimens, autograph, and black-letter. Not far from the closed windows was a heavily carved, oblong table, covered with prints and maps. " There were no other books on the side of the entrance and the alcove; but near the alcove stood a cabinet piano, and over that, in a heavy gilt Florentine frame, hung the painting of a young mediaeval saint and hero with his armor on--a halo worn upon his brown locks by the bascinet. Here hung, too, were fine bronze bas-reliefs; and the whole of this end of the great room was set aflame by a Zamacois. There were some very old Elizabethan chairs of carved oak, with strips of basket-work let into the narrow, ...
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