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Rh shelves would soon be felt, and so galleries were built around them at suitable heights. The oldest example of these early galleries (Fig. 1) still in situ, and used for the purpose at the present time, is to be found in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, built by Sir Thomas Bodley in 1597, and enlarged some thirty years later. Other instances of this style of architecture may be seen in the library at the Castle of Mannheim, the Court Library at Vienna, and

the Monastic Library at St. Gall. The Radcliffe Library at Oxford, designed by Gibbs in 1740, which is now used as a reading-room for the Bodleian, is notable, also, as one of the earliest instances in England of a circular library lit from the roof. An earlier Continental example, from which Gibbs is said to have copied his design, is that of Duke Anton Ulrich at Wolfenbüttel (Fig. 2), which was built by Korb about 1710.

The first architect to plan a library which in