The Lure of the Limerick in the Bookshop

The Lure of the Limerick by William Baring-Gould, Aubrey Beardsley, André Domin and Edward Lear

"When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere till he was old. They kept him in a dark place, like a cheese, until he had the full Tellson flavour and blue-mould upon him. Then only was he permitted to be seen, spectacularly poring over large books, and casting his breeches and gaiters into the general weight of the establishment." - Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

 

Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat in the Bookshop

Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat by Ernest Bramah

"I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time." - Virginia Woolf