A Tour of the King's Library Tower | Curators on Camera | British Library
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- čas přidán 25. 07. 2024
- Whether you're racing back to our Reading Rooms or researching remotely a little longer, we're taking everyone behind the bookshelves for a peek inside our gleaming tower of brass and glass - the King's Library. The focal point of our St Pancras building, the tower houses books collected by King George III. Among the treasures are copies of the Gutenberg Bible (1454/5), William Caxon’s first printing of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales (1476/7), and Robert Hooke’s Micrographia (1665), one the first scientific books in English.
All books are listed in the Library’s main catalogue, and most can be consulted in our Rare Books and Music Reading Room, with some available to explore online. Keep up to date with our reopening plans as we welcome you back, and we're always open online.
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😲😲 Beautiful and fascinating! I am so happy these works have been tenderly preserved for the people of the World👏👏👏👏👏👏😊😊👍👍
I am looking forward to doing research in it again!
Exquisite. Thank you. 🙌🏼
Buenos dias. Muy hermoso me gustan mucho las Bibliotecas y los Libros. Gracias por compartir. Saludos desde Colombia.🇨🇴
This was lovely!
An illuminating video! Thank you.
Thanks for this. I always wondered what those old books in the middle of the library were.
Loved this thank you
Universal treasure .
Great British Library .
Wonderful! More please!
I'm sitting outside the book tower right now at this moment. I looked up the video since I really wanted to see inside. It's very cool.
Magic
Fascinating watch. I did wonder how the books inside the tower are accessed.
There's a door to get in on the second level. I just watched a librarian go in.
Do the British royal family have a right to free access to the King's Library?