My friend David Plumtree, who has died aged 74, ran the Holleyman and Treacher antiquarian bookshop in Brighton with his business partner, Michael Kadwell, from 1983 until its closure in the late 1990s.
David had worked in the shop since he left school in 1973, and took over with Michael once George Holleyman retired. The shop was located on Duke Street in a building that had originally been a five storey temperance hotel, and was filled with thousands of books, many of which were rare continental volumes.
