Many of us covet a library of our own - a room dedicated to books, lined floor to ceiling with shelves, with perhaps a desk, a comfy chair, a fire .... The house pictured above has not one but two libraries, very much as I describe, and each with views out onto the tranquil Tweed Valley.
I couldn't take any pictures inside the house, but you can see some interior shots on the Traquair website itself. The older of the two libraries has a 'reverse reading chair' rather like this one which strikes me as being good for the back! Books are catalogued according to their position on the shelves in relation to the portraits of philosophers and poets painted on the cornice (see here and scroll down a bit), so the volume you seek may be marked something like "Plato 4/23" or "Terence 9/17".
Ah well, if you had this much space, think of the scope for the TBR piles....
