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Order Nr. 51553 HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN'S REFERENCE LIBRARY, 1746-1996. Klaus Kjolsen
(Denmark).

HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN'S REFERENCE LIBRARY, 1746-1996.

Abridged by Christian Gottlieb.
Odense, Denmark: Odense Universitetsforlag, 1997. 6.5 x 9.75 inches. cloth, dust jacket. 336 pages. Abridged by Christian Gottlieb. First edition. This library is the historical book collection of the Royal House of Denmark for the last 300 years. Founded in the mid-18th century, the Library has been in the possession of the reigning monarch, passed on from king to king for generations, and has been, thus far, little known to the public. Only during the..... READ MORE

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                             Contents

Preface by Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II......................   9

Introduction................................................... 215

The Reference Library as an institution of the court........... 217
  The period of the absolute monarchy.......................... 217
  1848 to c. 1900.............................................. 220
  The 20th century............................................. 224

The fires at Christiansborg Palace, 1794 and 1884.............. 227
  The fire of 1794............................................. 227
  The fire of 1884............................................. 231

The accommodation of the Library............................... 233

The collections: Books and bindings............................ 239
  Size and growth of the collection............................ 239
  Composition of the collection................................ 242
  The Library catalogue........................................ 245
  Inclusion of individual collections.......................... 247
  Collection of Christian IX, included 1954.................... 248
  Collection of Frederik IX, included 1972..................... 249
  Collection of Christian X, included 1985..................... 250
  Collection of Frederik VIII, included 1996................... 251
  Beautiful books and bindings: A selection.................... 252
  Bindings..................................................... 264

Special collections............................................ 267
  The Glücksborg Collection.................................... 267
  The Gothic Library of Queen Caroline Amalie.................. 268
  Collection of Queen Louise at Fredensborg Palace............. 271
  Collection of Queen Marie.................................... 272
  The Gubernatorial libraries.................................. 273
  Private collection of Christian IX........................... 273
  Private collection of Queen Margrethe II..................... 274
  The Picture Collection....................................... 274
  The Map Collection........................................... 276
  The Manuscript Collection.................................... 278
  Collection of literature on uniforms......................... 278
  The Music Collection of Frederik IX.......................... 279
  Film Collection of Frederik IX............................... 279
  The Collections of Audio- and Video tapes.................... 280
  The Eigil Knuth Collection................................... 280

The Librarians and their work.................................. 282
  The function of librarian in the first decades after 1746.... 283
  Georg Nielsen................................................ 284
  Niels Heinrich Weinwich...................................... 285
  Carl von Ewald............................................... 287
  Just Mathias Thiele.......................................... 289
  Sophus Birket-Smith.......................................... 291
  Frants Wilhelm Ferdinand Rosenstand.......................... 291
  Holger Ehrencron-Miiller..................................... 292
  Henning Frisch Kirer ,....................................... 293
  Klaus Wilhjelm Hammer Kjølsen................................ 294

The Reference Library in a European context.................... 296
Index of names................................................. 333