Book Reviews : Warncke, Carsten-Peter (ed.) Ikonographie der Bibliotheken. 1992, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 364pp, DM128.00, (Wolfenbütteler Schriften zur Geschichte des Buchwesens, Band 17) ISBN: 3 447 03252 9

a library history seminar held at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbiittel in 1988. The nine speakers were all historians of art, not librarians, and this gives the book an interesting perspective. It is actually very appropriate that outsiders should here give their view of libraries, since the theme of the seminar, the iconography of libraries, concerns the image that over the centuries libraries have presented through their architecture and decoration.