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Shopkeeping: Stories, Advice and Observation Faire the craft of botanical illustrationA love letter to the small shop, and shop owners everywhere, by beloved bookseller Peter Miller. There is a tradition of shopkeeping, a tradition of codes, etiquette, and customs. For the most part, it is an oral history, passed along, person to person. You learn to be a retailernot by going to college, but by going to work. You learn from people who have learned how to run a shop. [from the Introduction] For more than four decades, Peter Miller has