Source: Atlas Obscura
The William Andrews Clark Memorial Library is one of 12 official libraries at the University of California, Los Angeles. And apart from having a magnificent collection of English literature, it also inspires an unusual amount of love among its loyal visitors.
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The library holds around 110,000 books and 22,000 manuscripts, including many rare items and fine prints. It is one of the most extensive collections of British literature from the 17th and 18th centuries, and the world’s most comprehensive collection of Oscar Wilde, including his books, manuscripts, photographs, original portraits and caricatures.
Despite receiving relatively few visitors, the library has nonetheless won the hearts of many bibliophiles. In 2009, the book collector and nuclear physicist Dr. Paul Chrzanowski donated his Shakespeare collection to the library, an extremely valuable collection of 72 tomes, published between 1479 and 1731.
A year later, Kathleen Thompson, co-owner of Michael R. Thompson Booksellers, a rare bookshop near the library, summed up what many book enthusiast feel for the library and its collection. She told the Los Angeles Times: “The Clark Library is the…
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