A bookselling family, six generations deep.
The Haymes name has been bound up with books for more than two hundred years, from a Rotterdam family of dealers in the early nineteenth century to the shelves we keep today. Six generations on, the trade has crossed oceans and outlived empires, and it has settled, quietly, on the Tweed coast.
What has not changed is the work itself: the patient hunt for a fine first edition, the care of a leather binding, the pleasure of putting the right book into the right pair of hands. We deal in the second-hand, the antiquarian and the genuinely rare, and we treat each one as though it matters, because it does.
Step inside and you will find a room built for lingering. Ladders, lamplight, spines worn soft with reading, and time enough to browse without a clock over your shoulder.
Haymes & Co., booksellers since the early 1800s.
