The Times: The best shops in London for rare books

One of the ‘finest book emporiums in London’

Yasmin Choudhury for The Times: ‘For those of you who are tempted to start compiling your own collection of incunabula, early printed texts and unusual manuscripts, here we have compiled a rare compendium of the finest book emporiums in London … Bernard Quaritch himself built up an impressive client list, including Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte (Napoleon’s nephew), prime ministers and William Morris. Among its extensive range of rarities the shop carries medieval manuscripts, volumes on Islamic cultures and countries and notable texts from the Renaissance and Reformation.’

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