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Vintage Advertising An A to Z
ISBN: PB: 9781851245406, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2020
144 pp., 19.6x19.6 cm, 109 colour illus.
How did the advertisers of the past sell electric corsets, carbolic smoke balls or even the first televisions? Which celebrities endorsed products? How did innovations in printing techniques and packaging design play a part in the evolution of advert...
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£15,00
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Art of Advertising
ISBN: HB: 9781851245383, Bodleian Library Publishing, March 2020
256 pp., 25.9x23.7 cm, 200 colour illus.
Advertisers in the nineteenth and early twentieth century pushed the boundaries of printing, manipulated language, inspired a new form of art and exploited many formats, including calendars, bookmarks and games. This collection of essays examines th...
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£30,00
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Ormesby Psalter Patrons and Artists in Medieval East Anglia
ISBN: PB: 9781851243105, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2017
224 pp., 27.6x19.2 cm, 71 colour illus.
The Ormesby Psalter is perhaps the most magnificent yet enigmatic of the great Gothic psalters produced in East Anglia in the first half of the fourteenth century. Its pages boast a wealth of decoration picked out in rich colours and burnished gold,...
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£30,00
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Type is Beautiful The Story of Fifty Remarkable Fonts
ISBN: HB: 9781851244317, Bodleian Library Publishing, August 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, 50 black&white illus.
Behind every typeface is a story – who designed it, and why? What are its distinctive characteristics, and what cultural baggage does it carry? This book explores fifty of the most remarkable typefaces, dating from the birth of European printing in...
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£20,00
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If England Were Invaded
ISBN: PB: 9781851244027, Bodleian Library Publishing, March 2014
224 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 2 black&white illus.
...No fewer than two hundred thousand Germans were already upon English soil! The outlook grew blacker every hour. Eight years before the outbreak of the First World War, when national hysteria over the supposed presence of German spies in England gr...
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£5,00
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Edward Lear's Nonsense Birds
ISBN: HB: 9781851242610, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2013
80 pp., 17.8x17.8 cm, 24 colour illus., 40 halftones
Edward Lear loved birds. Of all the animals that sprang from his quirky imagination, birds held a special place, serving as the animal of choice for his zoomorphosis in self-portraiture. Not only did he draw more birds than any other animal, but he e...
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£15,00
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De Uiris Illustribus - On Famous Men
ISBN: HB: 9781851243679, Bodleian Library Publishing, August 2010
1028 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Equipped with a commission from Henry VIII, John Leland began to record the contents of English monastic libraries in 1533 before they were dispersed. His booklists were compiled as the primary resources for his comprehensive dictionary of British wr...
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£120,00
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Modern Political Papers
ISBN: PB: 9781851240487, Bodleian Library Publishing, January 1996
40 pp., 20x20 cm, 15 illus.
This is an illustrated introduction to the collections of political papers – the private papers of politicians, public servants, journalists and others active during the last 150 years – which constitute an essential source for the study of modern Br...
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£3,95
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