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At home with books : how booklovers live with and care for their libraries / Estelle Ellis, Caroline Seebohm, Christopher Simon Sykes

This guide offers practical advice on the organisation, display, and preservation of book collections. It features the private libraries of forty notable collectors, illustrating diverse ways to integrate books into the home.

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