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We are
primarily a higher end consignment
store dealing in
furniture, accessories, artwork, home decor, or just
anything for your home. Any questions about
consignment or inventory please call! |
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Thomasville Furniture,
Ethan Allen,
Henredon Furniture,
Drexel Furniture, and
John Widdicomb to mention a few brand furniture
names. |
A bookcase, or bookshelf, is a piece of
furniture, almost always with horizontal shelves, used
to store books.
History of the bookcase
When books were written by hand and were not produced
in great quantities, they were kept in small
containers which owners (usually the wealthy or
clergy) carried with them. As manuscript volumes
accumulated in religious houses or in homes of the
wealthy, they were stored on shelves or in cupboards.
These cupboards are the direct predecessors of today's
bookcases. Later the doors were discarded, and the
evolution of the bookcase proceeded. Even then,
however, the volumes were not arranged in the modern
fashion. They were either placed in piles upon their
sides, or if upright, were ranged with their backs to
the wall and their edges outwards. The band of
leather, vellum or parchment which closed the book was
often used for the inscription of the title, which was
thus on the fore-edge instead of on the spine.
It was not until the invention of printing had greatly
reduced the cost of books, thus allowing many more
people direct access to owning books, that it became
the practice to write the title on the spine and
shelve books with the spine outwards. Early bookcases
were usually of oak, which is still deemed by some to
be the most appropriate wood for an elegant library.
Oldest bookcases
The oldest bookcases in England are those in the
Bodleian Library at Oxford University, which were
placed in position in the last year or two of the
sixteenth century; in that library are the earliest
extant examples of shelved galleries over the flat
wall-cases. Long ranges of book-shelves are somewhat
severe in appearance, and many attempts have been made
by means of carved cornices and pilasters to give them
a less austere appearance. These attempts were most
successful as in the hands of the English
cabinetmakers of the second half of the eighteenth
century.
Designers and manufacturers
Both Chippendale and Sheraton made or designed many
bookcases, mostly glazed with little lozenges encased
in fretwork frames, often of great charm and elegance.
In the eyes of some, the grace of some of Sheraton's
satinwood bookcases has rarely been equalled. The
French cabinetmakers of the same period were also
highly successful with small ornamental cases.
Mahogany, rosewood satinwood and even choicer exotic
timbers were used; they were often inlaid with
marquetry and mounted with chased and gilded bronze.
Dwarf bookcases were frequently finished with a slab
of choice marble at the top.
Library shelving
In the great public libraries of the twentieth century
the bookcases are often of iron, as in the British
Museum where the shelves are covered with cowhide, or
steel, as in the Library of Congress at Washington,
D.C., or of slate, as in the Fitzwilliam Library at
Cambridge.
Systems of arrangement
There are three stationary systems of arranging
bookcases: Flat against the wall; in stacks or ranges
parallel to each other with merely enough space
between to allow of the passage of a librarian; or in
bays or alcoves where cases jut out into the room at
right angles to the wall-cases. The stack system is
suitable only for public libraries where economy of
space is essential; the bay system is not only
handsome but utilizes the space to great advantage.
The library of the City of London at the Guildhall is
a peculiarly effective example of the bay arrangement.
For libraries where space is extremely tight there is
yet another system, usually called mobile aisle
shelving or high density storage. In such systems rows
of bookcases are mounted on wheels and packed tightly
together with only one or more aisles between them. It
is possible then to visit only two bookcase sides at a
time, all the others being pressed close together. A
gearing mechanism allows users move the bookcases and
open the aisle in the desired location. Because of the
danger of tripping on the floor mounted rails or being
squashed between bookcases these systems may have
electronic sensors and/or recessed track, or are
reserved for closed stacks where access is restricted.
Literature on bookcases
The construction and arrangement of bookcases was
learnedly discussed in the light of experience by W.
E. Gladstone in the Nineteenth Century for March 1890.
The Book on the Bookshelf by Henry Petroski also
discusses the shelving of books in some detail.
See also Sympson the Joiner and the early glazed
bookcases made for Samuel Pepys.
Bookcases in fiction
In several stories, a secret area is hidden behind a
bookcase built into the wall. The entrance is
typically opened when a particular book on the shelf
is pulled off or uses a switch in a statue, usually
under the head. One particularly humorous example is
found in the film Young Frankenstein, when Doctor
Frankenstein's laboratory is opened via a bookcase
triggered by a candle. |
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