The gilt-brass gallery pierced with a heart motif, with a lobed rectangular top over brass inlaid reeded corner pilasters, two adjustable open shelves to each side also inlaid with brass reeds, the panelled sides with cast water leaf borders and centred with lion's mask and ring handles, on raised turned tapering feet with brass cups and castors. Likely designed to wheel books from the library to the drawing room for immediate use and to function as a space divider.

A comparator to this bookcase was found in the collection of the Dukes of Bedford and was supplied to their ancestral seat of Woburn Abbey. Woburn Abbey houses an exceptional collection of art and furniture. The comparator, also a double-sided bookcase features a near identical design with pierced brass gallery and lion mask handles. The 5th and 6th Dukes of Bedford refurbished Woburn Abbey during the Regency era and employed Marsh & Tatham, one of the finest and most innovative firms of cabinetmakers and upholsterers. Operating out of Mount Street in Mayfair, Marsh & Tatham created elegant furniture in the neoclassical style for the most luxurious stately homes and royal residences in Britain, such as Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace.

A further comparator was found in the collection of St Giles House in Dorset, the ancestral seat of the Earls of Shaftesbury. The St Giles bookcase is also very similar in design; it is also double sided and features the same pierced brass pierced brass gallery. Fine furniture produced Marsh & Tatham was recorded in the collection of the Earls of Shaftesbury and their furnishing of St Giles House.