Blackwell's Book Shop, Oxford

I still do not have my photos of Oxford sorted yet but to be going on with I have a couple of photos of an amazing bookshop in Oxford.

Blackwells Bookshop was opened in 1879 and was 12 foot square. It is now Oxford's largest book store. There are 200,000 books in stock catering for every subject, discipline and interest.
There are 4 floors in all, the top floor being given over to second hand books. The whole place is a book readers dream. We made 2 visits and of course there is a coffee shop where one can browse the books before buying if wished.

The above photo shows The Norrington Room that was opened in 1966. This is a vast subterranean chamber which is actually under Trinity College. It has a place in the Guiness Book of Records for the largest display of books for sale in any one room in the world.
It has 3 miles of book shelves.

For an avid book reader like me who just loves books, it can be heaven and hell in equal measure. I did spend quite a bit of money.

The above book I found in the second hand department. It would not interest many people, but to me it was a treasure. It is an account of a Royal around the world Tour in 1901 as seen through the eyes of one of the ships Mates. As you will see below, it is written in long hand and he was obvioulsy an artist too as it is illustrated throughout with his artwork.





Next came the biographies



Then my purchases to help me in a deeper study of the times of the Bible



And lastly some books for Grandson Oliver. There are a number of books that I cannot show you as they are Christmas presents.

http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oxinfo/blackwells/index.html