Editing Bookcase (section)

== Writing ==
;Practical
*The construction and arrangement of bookcases was learnedly discussed in the light of experience by W. E. Gladstone in the ''Nineteenth Century'' for March 1890,<ref name=EB1911/> entitled "On Books and the Housing of Them". An early type of mobile shelving made of steel is sometimes said to have been invented by Gladstone.
*''The Book on the Bookshelf'' by Henry Petroski (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999) also discusses the shelving of books in some detail.
*''Living with Books'' by Alan Powers (London: Mitchell Beazley, 1999) deals with accommodating books at home.
*''Lunacy & the Arrangement of Books'' by [[Terry Belanger]] (New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 2003) also deals with the subject.
*''The Pictorial Catalogue; mural decoration in libraries: the Lyell Lectures, Oxford 1972-1973'' by André Masson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981) deals with the systems used in early modern European libraries.
*See also:
**[[Sympson the Joiner]] and the early glazed bookcases made for [[Samuel Pepys]]
**The [[Cottonian Library]] where each bookcase was named after a prominent figure in ancient Rome whose bust stood on the top.

;Literature and film
*In several stories, a [[hidden passage|secret area]] is hidden behind a bookcase built into the wall. The entrance is typically opened when a particular book on the shelf is pulled off or uses a switch in a statue, usually under the head. One particularly humorous example is found in the film ''[[Young Frankenstein]]'', when Doctor Frankenstein's laboratory is opened via a bookcase triggered by a candle.
*[[H. C. Bunner]] wrote a comic poem "Shake, Mulleary and Go-ethe" "I have a bookcase which is what / Many much better men have not / There are no books inside, for books / I am afraid might spoil its looks, etc."<ref>''The Penguin Book of Comic and Curious Verse'', ed. [[J. M. Cohen]]  1952</ref>
*In this passage from [[Lucy Maud Montgomery]]'s<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.online-literature.com/lucy_montgomery/|title=Lucy Maud Montgomery|publisher=iThe Literature Network|access-date=2012-05-19}}</ref> novel ''Anne of Green Gables'', the author refers to a bookcase; "Thomas she{{clarify|date=August 2012}} had a bookcase in her sitting room with glass doors."<ref name="Bookcase"/>
*[[Beatrix Potter]]<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.online-literature.com/beatrix-potter|title=Beatrix Potter|publisher=iThe Literature Network|access-date=2012-05-19}}</ref> referred to a bookcase in her children's tales ''The Original Peter Rabbit Books'' in this passage; "The bookcase and the bird-cage refused to go into the mouse-hole."<ref name="Bookcase"/>