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Heroic Works Catalogue for Designer Bookbinders International Competition 2017
ISBN: HB: 9781851242498, Bodleian Library Publishing, July 2017
112 pp., 26.7x19.4 cm, 250 colour illus.
Throughout the ages, every culture has created myths and legends which recount the great deeds of its heroes and their epic struggles with larger-than-life forces. Designer Bookbinders 3rd International Competition, held at the Bodleian Library in 20...
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£30,00
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Tea, Coffee and Chocolate How We Fell in Love with Caffeine
ISBN: HB: 9781851244065, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2015
176 pp., 17x11 cm, 20 black&white illus.
Did you know that coffee was recommended as protection against the bubonic plague in the seventeenth century? Or that tea was believed to make men "unfit to do their business" and blamed for women becoming unattractive? On the other hand, a cup of ch...
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£9,99
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Hours of Marie De Medici A Facsimile
ISBN: HB: 9781851244072, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2015
352 pp., 20.4x13.7 cm, 45 colour illus.
At the turn of the fifteenth century, private devotionals became a speciality of the renowned Ghent-Bruges illuminators. Wealthy patrons who commissioned work from these artists often spared no expense in the presentation of their personal prayer boo...
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£99,00
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Secrets in a Dead Fish The Spying Game in the First World War
ISBN: HB: 9781851242603, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2014
128 pp., 17x11 cm, 20 black&white illus.
How did German intelligence agents in the First World War use dead fish to pass on vital information to their operatives? What did an advertisement for a dog in "The Times" have to do with the movement of British troops into Egypt? And why did Britis...
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Great Medical Discoveries An Oxford Story
ISBN: PB: 9781851240036, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2013
96 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 40 colour illus.
The "miracle drug" penicillin was first given intravenously to a patient in Oxford on 12 February 1941, leading to a transformation in the way that bacterial infection is understood and treated. What was to become one of the greatest stories in biome...
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Prize Volumes Catalogue for Designer Bookbinders International Competition 2013
ISBN: HB: 9781851242580, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2013
112 pp., 26.4x19.6 cm, 200 colour illus.
"Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom" – "The Tempest" With Shakespeare as the inspiration for Designer Bookbinders second International Competition, this lavish catalogue feature...
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Englishwoman in California The Letters of Catherine Hubback, 1871-1876
ISBN: HB: 9781851243440, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2010
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, 14 black&white illus.
A niece of Jane Austen and a novelist herself, Catherine Hubback was fifty-two years old when she left England for America. She travelled to California on the Transcontinental Railroad and settled in Oakland, on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay...
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Bound for Success Catalogue for Designer Bookbinders International Competition 2009
ISBN: HB: 9781851243525, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2009
112 pp., 26.4x19.6 cm, 242 colour illus.
This catalogue illustrates each entry in the prestigious bookbinding competition held by Designer Bookbinders, one of the foremost bookbinding societies in the world. The Designer Bookbinders International Competition is being held at the Bodleian Li...
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