Hatchards

The Hatchards are the great people of the place, with an elderly spinster still solvent and in residence, and a Memorial Library bearing musty witness to that distinguished and now extinguished author, Honorius Hatchard, who had hobnobbed with Irving and Halleck, back in the forties.

Some Stories of the Month 1917

I would have liked to read more about other favorite book haunts, such as Hatchards on Picadilly in London, once occupied by Lorenzo da Ponte, Mozart's librettist; and about the wood-paneled Rizzoli's in New York, an inexplicable omission.

The Bible of Bibliomania 2010

I would have liked to read more about other favorite book haunts, such as Hatchards on Picadilly in London, once occupied by Lorenzo da Ponte, Mozart's librettist; and about the wood-paneled Rizzoli's in New York, an inexplicable omission.

The Bible of Bibliomania 2010

I would have liked to read more about other favorite book haunts, such as Hatchards on Picadilly in London, once occupied by Lorenzo da Ponte, Mozart's librettist; and about the wood-paneled Rizzoli's in New York, an inexplicable omission.

The Bible of Bibliomania 2010

A pad and silver propelling pencil, then, there it was, a porcelain pillbox with 'Hatchards', that most famous of bookshops, transferred in colour on the lid.

Final Resting Place of The Pen 2010

I would have liked to read more about other favorite book haunts, such as Hatchards on Picadilly in London, once occupied by Lorenzo da Ponte, Mozart's librettist; and about the wood-paneled Rizzoli's in New York, an inexplicable omission.

The Bible of Bibliomania 2010

✒I also popped into the annual Hatchards party for authors, held at their gorgeous shop in Piccadilly.

Scottish independence is a win-win situation | Simon Hoggart 2011

The bookstore chain's dropping of its apostrophe shows confusion rules in the book trade, where Foyle's long ago became Foyles and Blackwell's retains an apostrophe while Hatchards does not.

In praise of … apostrophes | Editorial 2012

For their delectation, Mr. Singer has located a copy of what he calls the rarest Churchill book in the world: "For Free Trade," a small red paperback assemblage of speeches delivered to Parliament and published in 1906 by Hatchards, the still extant Piccadilly bookshop.

Selling the Myriad Products of Churchill's Toil and Sweat 2008

Hatchards, they've been selling books since 1797, the oldest surviving book store in London.

CNN Transcript Dec 13, 2008 2008