2,400 volumes · 300 printed pre-1900

Marginalia — 03 / 06

The Library

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

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

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The first-floor room

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.

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

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

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The 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.


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

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