Beneath a canapé of trees on London’s quietly grand Lamb’s Conduit Street sits a grade II-listed building which was constructed in 1702, not long after the devastation of the Great Fire of London tore through the English capital. The history behind the quaint shopfront is not wasted on Nicola Beauman, author and founder of Persephone Books, the London-based publishing house and bookshop which has occupied the…
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