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Excerpt from Reminiscences of Literary London From 1779 to 1853: With Interesting Anecdotes of Publishers, Authors and Book Auctioneers of That Period, &C., &C
Soon after that con?agration most of these moved to the vicinity of Covent Garden. Some of the mercers and silkmen renewed their residences in this spot in new houses but near the east end there were stationers and large warehouses for book sellers; well situated for learned and studious men's access thither, being more retired and pri vate. St. Paul's Churchyard appears to have been the chief mart of the bookselling trade at the time of the great fire. Dugdale told Pepys that more than worth of books were de stroyed on that fatal occasion. Previous to this epoch, Little Britain, and Duke Street ad101n1ng, seem to have been the most noted site for book sellers.
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