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Shakespeare Bookshop

A Moveable Feast

The Shakespeare Bookshop is documented here through a photograph caption that identifies it as Shakespeare and Company and places Sylvia Beach and Ernest Hemingway in front of it. The caption provides a concise visual record linking the bookshop with its owner and Hemingway, without describing the shop’s interior or other activities.

Identification and Documentary Record

The book’s illustration caption names the establishment as Shakespeare and Company and describes Sylvia Beach and Ernest Hemingway standing in front of her bookshop. This is the evidence available here for the Shakespeare Bookshop: a named location and its association in the photograph with Beach and Hemingway.