The ever-ingenious Adam Dant has devised these illustrations selected from his new book BIBLIOPOLIS, Imaginary Libraries in the City of London, proposing an alternative history for the Square Mile based upon Culture rather than Commerce. With each example, Adam has helpfully given us a photograph of the location today so that we may observe the remaining ‘evidence’ and share his vision of this strangely credible yet entirely fictional version of the past.
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The Subterranean Bovine Archive
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The Bathhouse Library
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The Walbrook Fluvial Shelves
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The Guildhall Peripatecknicon Library
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The Gresham Secretary
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The Walbrook Stepped Library
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The Candlewyke Lineamental Census
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Gallic Oculus & Vitiarama
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Stowe’s Raised Survey Diorama
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Cheape Moralitorium
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The Wall Reading Rooms
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The Library By The Tree
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The Debtors’ Library
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The Library Of Compleat Replenishment
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Jamaica Topoteque
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Library On A Pole
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Bibliothecque Incinis
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An ape studies Adam Dant’s handsome new book
Copyright © Adam Dant
Signed copies from the hardback limited edition of three hundred copies of BIBLIOPOLIS, IMAGINARY LIBRARIES IN THE CITY OF LONDON are available direct from Adam Dant at £45 + £5 (postage & packing) adamdant@gmail.com
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