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'Wet Winter Evening and a Book Lover in Bloomsbury', c1935. Creator: Fincham

'Wet Winter Evening and a Book Lover in Bloomsbury', c1935. Shelves of books outside a shop in central London. From "Wonderful London, Volume 2", edited by Arthur St John Adcock. [The Fleetway House, London, c1935]

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'Kensington Palace. The Sussex Library', c1841. Artist: Henry Melville

'Kensington Palace. The Sussex Library', c1841. The Duke of Sussex sat in a specially designed library chair. From London Interiors with their Costumes & Ceremonies from Drawings made by permission of the Public Offices. Proprietors & Trustees of the Metropolitan Buildings, by Joseph Mead. [Joseph Mead, London, c1841]

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'Reading Room of the Great Library at the British Museum seen from the Entrance', c1935

'Reading Room of the Great Library at the British Museum seen from the Entrance', c1935. The circular Reading Room of the British Museum in central London was designed by Sydney Smirke (1798-1877). Construction began in 1854 and was completed in 1857. The Reading Room used to be the main reading room of the British Library. Famous users include Karl Marx, Lenin, Ghandi, Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling and Virginia Woolf. From "Wonderful London, Volume 3", edited by Arthur St John Adcock. [The Fleetway House, London, c1935]

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