London Advent Bookshop
Day 10 – Daunt Books, Marylebone
I love buying books as Christmas gifts and opening the door to the very beautiful Daunt Books in Marylebone is always exciting a favourite Christmas shopping venue for me. With its glorious arched stained glass window at the back of the shop and the elegant oak wood gallery which extends all around the top floor, this must be one of the most beautiful bookshops in London. The current shop is housed in a former Edwardian bookshop built in 1910, believed to be the world’s first custom built bookshop. When it began in 1990 it was a specialist in travel books and literature. This remains today and travel books sit side by side arranged in to countries. It is a wonderful place for some armchair travelling. The choice of fiction and literary reads is vast and there is always a wonderful collection of ‘London’ based books to be inspired by.
There are four other branches of Daunt Books in London but this is probably the most photogenic and photographed store and it is easy to see why.
Nearest Tube: Baker Street or Bond Street
