Boots Book-Lovers' Library

It began in 1898, at the instigation of Florence Boot (née Florence Annie Rowe), and closed in 1966, following the passage of the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964, which required councils to provide free public libraries.

[5] Books carried the 'green shield' logo on the front and an eyelet at the top of the spine.

John Betjeman places Boots' libraries at the head of an ironic list of British national emblems: Think of what our Nation stands for, Books from Boots' and country lanes, Free speech, free passes, class distinction, Democracy and proper drains.

The stage directions for the opening scene of Sir Noël Coward's 1936 play Still Life show the protagonist Laura Jesson 'reading a Boots library book at which she occasionally smiles'.

[12] In the 1945 cinema adaptation Brief Encounter, Laura is seen visiting a branch of Boots to exchange her library book as part of her weekly routine.

The green shield logo of Boots Booklovers Library with a cancellation mark (the black X). 'Booklovers' is spelled as a single word without an apostrophe, as is the word 'Boots'. [ 1 ]
Boots Booklovers Library edition of The Saint in Europe