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Marlowe & Pike's library in warm afternoon light. Floor-to-ceiling mahogany bookcases of leather-bound books on every wall, a brass rolling ladder on a rail, an oxblood ceiling and a ribbed glass pendant. A long reading table with a green leather top and green banker's lamps, two oxblood leather armchairs by a small marble fireplace, a worn Persian rug on wide oak boards, and a tall shopfront window on the left. At the back, one bookcase stands ajar onto a hidden passage.

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Marlowe & Pike

Library, speakeasy below. Bronze and glass, west side.

The card

shops 19 of 19

Marlowe & Pike

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The notes

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What it really is Library, speakeasy below
Front Bronze and glass
Side West, number 19 of 19 walking the street clockwise from the north-west
Frontage 6 m
Floor area about 42 m², from the model

Bronze and glass, lettered Marlowe & Pike · Booksellers, with a BOOKS sign hanging from a bracket and a book cart on the pavement. It began as a Victorian bookseller front. Inside is the library, and one of its bookcases is the door to the speakeasy stair.

The room behind it has its own page under behind the fronts: Marlowe & Pike · the library, victorian bookseller.

The plates

2 · lift any one out
Marlowe & Pike's library in warm afternoon light. Floor-to-ceiling mahogany bookcases of leather-bound books on every wall, a brass rolling ladder on a rail, an oxblood ceiling and a ribbed glass pendant. A long reading table with a green leather top and green banker's lamps, two oxblood leather armchairs by a small marble fireplace, a worn Persian rug on wide oak boards, and a tall shopfront window on the left. At the back, one bookcase stands ajar onto a hidden passage.
01 · Marlowe & Pike's library in warm afternoon light
The west side straight on from above the courtyard on a summer evening. Left to right: The Regal's blade sign on the corner, Our Price with a giant record on a bracket, Lowther Gallery with paintings on easels, Abbott & Sons Barbers with a barber's pole, the narrow Market Row Baths with a teal-lit stair going down, and Marlowe & Pike Booksellers lined with books. In front, the sunken lightwell planted with flowers behind its glass balustrade, and the water bowl, which has sprouted a fountain jet that is not in the design.
02 · The west side straight on from above the courtyard on a summer evening