Enfilade

From the Editor

I have put in a plug before for Chicago’s Seminary Co-Op Bookstore, but at a time when independent bookstores face an increasingly uncertain future, this Hyde Park gem is worth singling out again. On the eve of its 50th anniversary, plans were announced last month by the University of Chicago for the store to move toward the end of 2011 to a new location, less than a block away (even closer, incidentally, to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House).

If you never get around to visiting the present (or future) store (and that really would be a shame), you can still take advantage of the Sem Co-Op’s resources through its website — good for browsing and buying. “The Front Table,” which provides a virtual display of new titles, is updated each week, and the eighteenth century is often well represented. Take, for example, the selection for 8 August 2010: