18 Bookshops Scott Anne Writer On Bookshops Author by Scott, Anne (writer On Bookshops), Author instant download after payment.

x, 117 pages ; 20 cm, There's not a reader who doesn't have a favourite bookshop, so here is a collection from across the world. Some began as churches, printing presses or medieval houses. Some take up tiny corners, others have many floors and hundreds of shelves. Some have gone; others are still there for us to visit. 18 Bookshops is about bookshops, famous and obscure. But it is also a map of books and of a life, Compendium Bookshop, Camden : the spread sail -- Chepman and Myllar, Edinburgh 1507-1510 : three years' light -- The Parrot, St. Paul's Churchyard, London 1609 : these to be solde by Wm Aspley at his shop -- The Old Printing Press Bookshop, Iona : reckoning -- Leakey's Bookshop, Inverness : Little Gidding -- William Templeton's Bookshop, Irvine 1782 : the crossing place -- Smith's Bookshop, 1 Antigua Street, Edinburgh : the lighted stage -- Atholl Browse Bookshop, Blair Atholl : stopping place -- The Grail Bookshop, Edinburgh : Saturdays -- Books of Wonder, New York City : the colour of Hudson Street -- The Turl Bookshop, Oxford : if it were lost, then how? -- Thomas Davie's Bookshop, 8 Russell Street, Covent Garden 1763 : the actor, his bookshop, Samuel Johnson & James Boswell -- Watkins Bookshop, Cecil Court, London : through -- King's Bookshop, Callander : the reading garden -- Bauermeister's Bookshop, Edinburgh : leaving -- Carraroe, Connemara : Henry James at home -- Kenny's Bookshop, Galway : how to be in Ireland -- Atlantis Bookshop, London : a light to shine before