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My name is Quill Kirkland. I am a writer/professional and technical writing student with a universe floating around in my head. This is my book appreciation blog.
Leakey’s Bookshop, Inverness. Scotland’s second largest secondhand bookshop, with around 100,000 books. The building, dating back to 1793, used to be a Gaelic church, giving the shop two floors, high ceilings, and beautiful windows.
Hereford Cathedral Library. The library was formally established in 1611, but the cathedral’s manuscript collection dates back to the medieval era. It is still a working library, and is notable for its collection of chained books (a common practice in the early modern era), and is the only library of this type to survive with all of the chains, rods and locks still intact. The chained library contains 229 manuscripts, mostly medieval, and the earliest book in the collection, the Hereford Gospels, is from around 780.