emblem's

Updated: June 13, 2025

Perhaps, however, the most delightful spot in all London for a second-hand bookshop is that occupied by Emblem's in the King's Road, Chelsea. It stands at the lower end of the road, where one begins to realize and thoroughly feel the influences of that ancient and lordly suburb.

Sir Walter Besant - In Luck at Last

It was now a week since he had received, carefully wrapped in wool, and deposited in a wooden box dispatched by post, a key, newly made. It was, also, very nearly a week since he had used that key. It was used during Mr. Emblem's hour for tea, while James waited and watched outside in an agony of terror. But Joe did not find what he wanted.

Sir Walter Besant - In Luck at Last