We were in the library of the Old Bank Hotel, in Oxford; that evening, he would be interviewed onstage as part of the Oxford Literary Festival.
"This shelf mark means this was in the library of Thomas Phillips, the most obsessive book-and-manuscript collector of the nineteenth century".
We were in the library of his home, which was modeled after a Frank Lloyd Wright design and which he had turned into a sandbagged bunker.
"You'll still have quiet reading spaces, and all of the things that were in the library of the past," he continues, "but we're adding a whole other layer, this discovery activity".
She was 7 years old when, as is the habit of first teeth, it fell out one November day in 2002 while she was in the library of the Brearley School.
The significance of the volume, which has been in the library of Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, since at least the 19th century, was only realised when it was put up for sale last summer by the Duke of Northumberland.
They will look like whatever you want them to be: Auto Union racers of the 1930s, sleek spaceships, whatever is in the library of holographic images stored in a key fob.
This last, probably based directly on Harleian manuscript 5369 (British Museum), was published by Wynkyn de Worde about 1524; the only known copy is in the library of St. John's College, Cambridge.
The exhibition is in the library of Abertay University on Bell Street in Dundee, from 29 September to 4 November.
