A working library

Marginalia — 03 / 06

The Library

Marginalia began in a closed antiquarian bookshop, and the shelves stayed.

2,400

Volumes

300

Printed pre-1900

An open herbal on a brass reading stand, candlelit against Marginalia's wall of cookbooks.

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The first-floor room

Marginalia's first-floor cookbook library prepared for an eight-cover private dinner.

Above the dining room, the working library holds the collection and eight covers. It is where the next binding is read, and where private dinners are laid when the room is not in use.

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The marginalia

An open cookbook on a brass stand between two candlelit place settings at Marginalia.

Ottilie keeps her pencil notes in the upstairs copies rather than a separate notebook — corrections, substitutions, the line where a recipe stops being possible in London. They are available on request.

Ask to see the shelves

Guests are welcome upstairs between courses, and after service if the room is free.

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14 Paddington Street · Marylebone · London W1U 4LB

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