A LIBRARY MISCELLANY

From the ancient library at Alexandria to the Library of Congress in Washington DC, A Library Miscellany explores institutions both old and new, from the university library to that of the humble village. It opens the door to unusual collections such as herbaria, a rt libraries, magic libraries and even the library of smells, and charts the difficulties of cataloguing books deemed to be subversi ve, heretical, libellous or obscene.