Buenos Aires has the highest number of bookshops per person than any other city in the world – as well as probably the most beautiful bookshop in the world

Argentinian bookshops

El Ateneo Grand Splendid bookshop (and eleven others!)

I have used this image of a book shop before (in a previous life), but I do like the description – particularly the bookseller selleth books, which certainly isn’t the case much of the time. I don’t know where the page comes from, presumably an edition of the ‘Book of Trades’. The woodcut bears some resemblance to life here at Zetetic HQ, though I have more books on the floor…