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CHAINING OF BOOKS.
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one of the bookcases in Hereford Cathedral (fig. 4).

Fig. 4. Bookcase in Hereford Cathedral. (Lent by the Syndics of the University Press.)

Having said thus much about chaining, I return to the Merton bookcases. Cases similar to these were evidently in use in the library of Christ Church, Canterbury, where the memoranda I mentioned record four shelves — that is, two on each side—in each bookcase, and also at Clairvaux, where a similar feature