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The periodically controversial signs which sometimes adorns the bookshop door

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Time flies when you’re having fun

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Arthur Rackham design endpapers Ingoldsby Legends

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“CUSTOMER: Do you have this children's book I've heard about? It's supposed to be very good. It's called "Lionel Richie and the Wardrobe.”

― Jen Campbell, Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops.

Bare with me I think we may have a copy…

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Beautiful pictorial cloth bindings

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Cover designs by John Leighton

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Vintage Penguin books in our bookshop

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Magic? or Coincidence?

Yes we sold a book online to a customer who lives hundreds of miles away - upon reciept she dropped us a line to say it was not only the same edition as one she had previously purchased but in fact it was the very same copy she had gifted to her father amost forty years before with her gift inscription.

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Bats, 19th century illustrations

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Fantastic beasts from Munster’s Cosmographia originally published in the 16th century

Published in 1544 there were many German language editions all slightly different - last published thus 1625

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Murder and cannibalism 16th century illustrations from Munster’s Cosmographia

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Old books

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Nature Poems of Longfellow

attractive art nouveau influence design covers

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What kind of self respecting antiquarian bookshop wouldn’t have a list of things they DON’T sell.

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The Sun June 28th 1838

Produced in a new experimental gold hue ink for the Coronation of Queen Victoria it became a phenomenal success running to 20 printings and some 250,000 copies were printed. Unfortnately it was reported that the printers became violently ill due to exposure to the experimental ink.

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19th century advertising [sold]

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