The Bookshop: A History of Bookselling From the Dawn of Print to the 21st Century

Spanning the UK, Europe and the US, the co-author of the excellent The Library: A Fragile History returns with a “magisterial” history of bookshops and “characterful” booksellers, from the cramped collectors’ shops frequented by Samuel Pepys, to the rise of the chains and the world of online selling.