The boards round and the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building of the house.
When I look in at the windows of some choice shop, and see the bindings of Levant morocco, with pretty tools and panellings, and your sweet contrasts of red and green, I say to myself, 'These are not books, but bibelots'.
The room still holds remnants of it's past like a secret staircase built into the wall leading to the second floor, cleverly hidden behind wooden panelling.