Bookshops in London [ Cities / Trade ]
… Permission of the Bodleian Library. Image "Shopping at the Temple of the Muses" by Rudolph Ackermann (1809). Abstract London Bookshops are no longer seen restrictively as retailing and publishing venues where books were made and sold. … Carlyle, a founding member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, described his encounter with Andrew Millar, a prominent London bookseller who was visiting Harrogate in 1763. Publisher of Fielding, Johnson and Hume, Millar was considerably … position, at the crossroads between different social scenes and backgrounds. In the last decades, the contribution of London printers and booksellers to eighteenth-century spheres of sociability has been mapped out by many book historians …
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