Bookcases for the Royal Library

Once the newly-built Senate House was opened in 1730 the old Regent House could at last be fitted out for the remainder of Moore’s books, with James Essex’s more ornamental cases occupying what then became the Catalogue Room. Essex’s cases were moved to the ground floor of the North Front, housing classes E to M (broadly, sermons, law, natural sciences and philosophy). These cases occupied the location of what is now the Milstein Exhibition Centre and Seminar Rooms.

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