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Cecil Court

A Victorian passage of antiquarian booksellers and print dealers, unchanged shopfront by shopfront.

Books & paperTrading before 1900A street or arcade

Photo by Jack1956 at English Wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Also in Shopping and Beautiful Streets and Literary London.

Seventeen shopfronts of 1894 between Charing Cross Road and St Martin's Lane, almost all of them still specialist dealers - rare books, first editions, antique maps, prints, coins and theatrical memorabilia.

Mozart lived at number 9 as a child. The street is closed to traffic, the shops keep their original fronts, and it is the densest concentration of antiquarian booksellers left in London.

Where
Cecil Court, WC2N 4HE
Nearest station
Leicester Square · 1 min walk

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