Witchcraft bookshop saved as if by magic

London's oldest esoteric bookshop, which closed last month after more than a century, is to re-open.

Watkins Books in Cecil Court off Charing Cross Road, whose customers included occultist Aleister Crowley and poet WB Yeats, owed £500,000 in tax.

Now American Etan Ilfeld, who owns an art gallery in the street, has bought it from the administrators.

The shop, which sells books on magic, astrology, the occult, Eastern religions and witchcraft, will resume trading from tomorrow.