Lahr's Bookshop Sign

Title: Lahr's Bookshop Sign
Description: This handwritten shop sign from Lahr’s Bookshop refers to the sale of “dirty” books, most likely in reference to D.H. Lawrence's 1928, privately-printed novel 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'. Blunt and practical, it reflects the pressures faced by anarchist and radical booksellers as they navigate obscenity laws, public scrutiny, and the boundaries of acceptable reading in early twentieth-century London.
Copyright Attribution: Courtesy of Esther Leslie
Source: https://archives.libraries.london.ac.uk/Details/archive/110007929
Format: Sign
Century: 20th
Exhibition Theme: Advertising the Book Trade See all items with this value
Subject: Bookshops