BOOK STREETS.
Members of certain professions and trades in London noticably follow the herd instinct, and congregate in one street or streets to dispose of their services or their wares. We find solicitors in Bedford Row, jewellers in Bond Street, doctors in Harley Street, and furniture dealers in Tottenham Court Road. So it is with second-hand book'sellers, who have made Charing Cross Road their special "quarter." At one time their headquarters were in Holywell Street—(jailed Booksellers' Row—which lay between the two island churches of the Strand, in that part of London which is now Aldwych. Pall Mall also at one time contained some of the bookselling fraternity. Tom Payne was in Schomberg House and Dodsley at 'No. 51, while in Pall Mail East Messrs. Reeves kept their shop. To-day there are very few booksellers who have remained in their quarters of ys&&yf&tk
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 134, 8 June 1929, Page 9 (Supplement)
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