Blackwells Bookshop (Oxford) Reviews
Newest Review: ... Books shop, both also on Broad Street. Expansion continued beyond Oxford and there are now a total of 50 Blackwell stores but none can compare to the original shop where it all started. ~Tardis Time~ From the outside it's hard to imagine what's hidden beyond the shop's historic façade. It looks like it might have a sweet shop or a gentlemen's outfitters full of old chaps with tape measures hanging round their necks but it doesn't look like a world-class bookshop and the home of the Blackwell's empire. What looks from outside like two old big houses is instead a book lover's paradise laid out over several floors and most impressively in... more
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Blackwells Bookshop (Oxford): Paradise for Book Lovers (1251 words)by - written on 10/08/11 (Very useful, 67 readings)
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~Bibliophilia - it runs in the family~ My uncle and aunt from Australia came to visit family in the UK for a month and my husband and I got 'custody' for several days before being asked to take them back to my parents. My uncle is a strange chap who has been proclaiming the end of the world (in economic terms rather than religious Armageddon) for the past few decades. In his home in Sydney he has a spectacular library room in which he keeps all his economics books and he arrived in the UK with what he described as 'a few feet still to fill'. He proceeded to use up the bulk of his luggage allowance picking up books on his trip. Oxford marked the ... Read the complete review
