On 1 March 1872, Andrew Iredale opened a second-hand bookshop in Torquay, Devon, which would become Iredale’s Library.
Image: Advertisement from the Torquay Pictorial (1890). This image is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired.
Troy J. Bassett, “‘More than a Bookseller’: Iredale’s Library as the Center of Provincial Literary Life”
