The Death of the Library?

Throughout the centuries countless libraries and carefully curated book collections have been dispersed, destroyed or lost. 

A Scene in a Library
‘A Scene in a Library’, c. 1844, William Henry Fox Talbot. Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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