Sujet
The Grosvenor Gallery Library, New Bond-Street, 1881. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
The Grosvenor Gallery Library, New Bond-Street, [London], 1881. '1. Circulating Library. 2. Large Reading-Room. 3. Large Dining and Luncheon Room. 4. Reference Library and Reading-Room...the directors...have sought to combine with the...conveniences of a circulating library advantages that have hitherto been almost exclusively associated with the idea of a club. In this class...[are] the reading and writing rooms, the ladies' drawing-room, and smoking-rooms...while in the reference library, subscribers, now numbered by thousands, enjoy access to sources of information such as the ordinary club library rarely professes to supply...There is also a smaller smoking-room upstairs, so that the lovers of the weed have no cause to complain...the circulating library (fig. 1)...is already fully stocked with a comprehensive collection of modern and other selected works in every department of literature. To this must be added a Foreign Library, comprising French and German works...and, a further much-needed boon, a library of vocal and instrumental music...the two reading-rooms [look] on to the street - one, the larger (fig. 2), [is] devoted to both sexes in common; and the other, cosier, but ample for the requirements, reserved for ladies alone'. From "Illustrated London News", 1881.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector
Notre référence
HRM25A43_351
Model release
NA
Property release
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Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
46,1Mo (4,4Mo) / 28,4cm x 40,6cm / 3359 x 4799 (300dpi)