We’ve seen photos of some interesting bookends in our time, but this is a first for us: a set of bookends for an entire bookcase!
Leave it to enthusiastic artists of Europe’s the rococo era to come up with such an ornament!
This creation can be found in Bavaria’s Abbey of Wadsassen, and was installed during the 1820’s.
Found at the Facebook page of Ancient Wonders of Archeology, Art History, and Architecture, February 8, 2022
Most booklovers traveling to Rome would probably make plans to visit The Vatican Library, but a city this old and this big of course has many libraries.
The blog at the Wandering Italy website recently featured three of these lesser-known but visit-worthy libraries.
Found at Wandering Italy’s Facebook page, July 12, 2021
Take a gander at two dozen photos of this amazing place
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Found at the Library of Congress Facebook page (April 24, 2021)
People trying to locate the library at the university in this Turkish town may not need to consult a map to find it!
Found at Literary Hub (January 21, 2021)
A recent article in the New York Times describes its writer’s visits to several famous (pre-modern) libraries in Venice, Rome, and Florence. Booklovers traveling to those cities in Italy might will find the links at the end of the article helpful in planning their own pilgrimages to these beautiful spaces.
Contributed by booklover Peg Kirkpatrick
Photos of several libraries I don’t remember being included in previous roundups of gorgeous libraries located in Europe – along with photos of gorgeous libraries that are almost always featured in such surveys.
Found via BookishBuzz’s Facebook page
Oxford University’s Bodlean Library is among those that BookishBuzz recently christened as “12 of the World’s Most Beautiful Libraries.”
Two similar lists (featuring library interiors only) were also published recently:
Photos of gorgeous libraries are posted to the Internet so frequently that I may need to stop re-posting them here, lest the Atlanta Booklover’s Blog become merely a compedium of such lists! Especially since so many of these photo collections tend to contain The Usual Suspects.
On the other hand, most of us bibliophiles find it so thrilling to see, over and over again, the insides and/or the outsides of some libraries that I may find myself unable to resist posting yet another link to yet another collection of “beautiful library” photos!
BuzzFeed recently posted photos of all The Usual Suspects, plus several I’d never seen photos of before. Enjoy all 49 photos!
Found via The Goodwill Librarian’s Facebook Page
Bight Side has posted photos of almost two dozen beautiful libraries throughout the world. Most are the usual suspects, but a few of these you may not have seen photos of before.
Found at Lorraine Fontana’s Facebook Page
This year-old Mental Floss compilation of 62 buildings from all over the planet is fun to scroll through, especially if you decide to seek out and visit one of them during your next trip to a city where one of these treasures is located.
As with any list of Gorgeous Libraries, readers have augmented this list with additional favorites of their own.
Found via a Facebook posting by retired librarian Tom Budlong
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