Muir, Percy The London Bookshop [with] The London Bookshop Part Two ( 2 Volumes ) Portraits & Premises : a pictorial record of the Antiquarian Book Trade. Edited by Brown & Brett. Preface Percy Muir. , Pinner, Middlesex: The Private Libraries Association.

Illustrated by Numerous Photographs. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Oblong 4to Olive cloth, bright gilt titling on upper covers and spine backed in red. Full-page b/w photographs, short description to each section, 19 antiquarian bookshop covered. Volume 1 : ISBN 0900002409. 1971. Numerous photographs 95 pages clean and tight. Volume 2 : ISBN 0900002239. Numerous photographs. 75 pages clean and tight. From introduction by Percy Muir: "The pictorial record of the London trade here so admirably represented is already to some extent a historical document in that some of the firms included in it have already changed their location. Nevertheless these are all familiar names known throughout the widely dispersed world of the bibliophile: which calls to mind the changes that have transpired since one's own introduction to the trade fifty years ago, when it stretched from the most easterly outpost of the City, where an appalling dump in the Minories was reputed to have disgorged treasures unearthed by those with the courage to explore the cellars by candlelight with water dripping from the ceiling. There was also a rag-bag branch of Stonehams in Walbrook: but the real glory began with Jones & Evans in Queen Victoria Street, where F. H. Evans had given Beardsley early encouragement and had procured him his first commission from Dent, to illustrate Malory, and had taught Bernard Shaw how to take photographs; and to whom the great John Wilson had come down from Glasgow on his majestic progress to Bumpus's............." (Book ref. 129798)  £49.95

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