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Englysshe Lechery

Bill Grundy The 'Orrible Synne E. J. Burford (Calder and Boyars £3.95) Life in Victorian London L. C. B. Seaman (Batsford £2.50) When Dr Johnson announced that being bored with......

Crime Compendium

There is only one way to begin this review, and that is to say that William Vivian Butler's The Durable Desperadoes (Macmillan £2.75) is absolutely necessary reading for......

Bookbuyer's

Bookend As one who has often bemoaned the lack of useful scholarship in British book trade affairs. Bookbuyer was intrigued to get wind of a major publishing research project at......