Sotheran's is a bookshop in
Sackville Street, London, founded in 1761 in York and created in London in 1815. In 1884,
John Harrison Stonehouse
John Harrison Stonehouse (1864 – 27 August 1937) was an English bookseller and Charles Dickens scholar at long-established London booksellers Sotheran's where he rose from apprentice to managing director through hard work and a strong entrepr ...
became employed as an apprentice, ultimately rising to the position of managing director through his skills of literacy, invention, and marketing.
See also
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Fore-edge painting
A fore-edge painting is a scene painted on the edges of book pages. There are two basic forms, including paintings on fanned edges and closed edges. For the first type, the book's leaves must be fanned, exposing the pages' edges for the picture ...
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Bookshops in London