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Andrew Brownlie has worked for a number of bookshops including Bowes &
Bowes, Penguin and Truslove & Hanson, sadly all now book-trade history. In
retirement he undertakes projects for the cathedral library at York Minster,
where the nearest thing to a best-seller is Foxe’s Book of Martyrs.

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The Library in Knightsbridge

Andrew Brownlie on the Harrods Library

Forty or so years ago, Harrods was still a place of considerable eccentricity. The Lending Library, with its attached Secondhand Book Department, hardly fitted with the high mark-up merchandise in the rest of this gargantuan store. However, the Harrods mantra that it could supply anything from a pin to an elephant allowed for the existence of the Library until its demise, in much reduced form, in 1989.

1 Dec 2011

Brownlie, Andrew

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For entries in multiple issues of the quarterly, the occurrences are separated by semi-colons.