Library Bookcases, Clare College, Cambridge (measured drawing, 1903)
A measured drawing from Tanner's English Interior Woodwork of early 17th-century library bookcases at Clare College, Cambridge, with carved cresting and panelled ends.
College libraries in Oxford and Cambridge preserve some of the earliest English built-in bookcases. The Clare College cases, from about the 1620s according to Tanner, have panelled ends, shelves between them and decorative cresting on top. They are a direct ancestor of the built-in library. For a modern study, the panelled-end case with a carved top is a handsome way to give built-in shelving a Jacobean character.
Built-in oak bookcases with panelled ends and CNC-carved cresting; Heirloom tier.
A custom version typically runs $1,050–$1,700 per linear foot, installed in Colorado.
- Style
- Tudor & Tudor Revival
- Element
- Built-ins & Bookcases
- Published
- 1903
- Maker or designer
- Henry Tanner
- Source
- English Interior Woodwork of the XVI, XVII & XVIIIth Centuries (1903), via Internet Archive
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