Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), the great lexicographer, journalist, conversationalist, inveterate London pub-goer and general good egg, famously remarked that if a man is tired of London, he is tired of life. Another quote of his on London is less well known: āSir, if you wish to have a just notion of…
Ross King’s āThe Bookseller of Florenceā, reviewed here as work begins on a new edition of Blue Guide Florence. Four hundred and eighty pages might seem a lot to fill, when one chooses as oneās subject a man about whom next to nothing is known. But Ross King, in this…
