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| Industry | Bookshop |
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| Founded | 1936; 89 years ago (1936) |
| Founder | George Heywood Hill |
| Headquarters | 10 Curzon Street, London, W1 |
| Website | heywoodhill |
Heywood Hill is abookshop at 10Curzon Street, in theMayfair district ofLondon.[1]
The shop was opened byGeorge Heywood Hill on 3 August 1936, with the help ofLady Anne Gathorne-Hardy, who would later become his wife.[2][3]
For the last three years of the Second World War, while George Heywood Hill was in the Army, Lady Anne ran the shop with the assistance of the novelistNancy Mitford.[4] In 1949Elizabeth Forbes, the daughter ofAdmiral Sir Charles Forbes, joined the staff of the store where she worked prior to her career as a journalist, music critic, and musicologist.[5] In the period following Heywood Hill's retirement, the shop was managed byHandasyde Buchanan, a notable contributor to books on natural history who had joined the shop in 1945.[6]John Saumarez Smith, who had joined the staff straight fromCambridge in 1965, took up the reins as manager in 1974 following Buchanan's retirement, a position he held for over thirty years.[7] In 1991, the shop was bought by Nancy Mitford's brother-in-law,Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire.[8]
Since 2016, the shop has been owned by Mitford's nephewPeregrine Cavendish, 12th Duke of Devonshire. It has been managed by his son-in-law, Nicky Dunne since 2011.[9] Heywood Hill specialises in rare books and collections of books, and has a service of assembling and delivering bespoke libraries for customers.[1] It has been described as the lateQueen's favourite bookshop.[10]
London's Heywood Hill curates impressive collections for discerning customers in 60 different countries — and specializes in the obscure.
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