I've been in houses where the people were newly wealthy and had libraries that had been assembled for them by someone else: all those perfect, new leather bindings.
Third, a consciously elegant, even mannered, style was used in books produced for the imperial library or for wealthy dignitaries, but it is not found before the early years of the 10th century.
This selection of Myles's Irish Times columns contains many brilliant reflections on literature, but none finer than his invention of the Book-Handling service, which allows wealthy philistines to own a library of books which appear to have been thoroughly read.
He also does panels bearing coat of arms, for the libraries of the wealthy.
These tabletop devices became known as orreries, after the Earl of Cork and Orrery, for whom the first one was built, and once were a popular fixture in the libraries of the wealthy.
No single research library, no matter how wealthy, can afford to buy everything, but the hope is that with some cooperation and some luck, the system as a whole will provide scholars with the support they need.
Jane was born in Marylebone into a wealthy family who owned an extensive library.
A successfully completed EST library project can supply wealthy genetic information for a species, often considerably shortening the time-consuming and laborious gene isolation and characterization procedures.
Most early St. Louisans remained illiterate through the 1810s, although many wealthy merchants purchased books for private libraries.
After the war, the library found new patrons among wealthy Jews in Britain and the United States.
