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Just the Job How Trades got their Names
ISBN: HB: 9781851245505, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2020
224 pp., 18.4x11.8 cm, 30 black&white illus.
What did a gongfarmer do? How is a chaperone connected to a bird of prey? What is the etymology behind cloud architect? And is there a link between secretaries and secrets? The story behind these (and many more) job titles is rarely predictable and...
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£12,99
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Jewish Treasures
ISBN: HB: 9781851245024, Bodleian Library Publishing, May 2020
288 pp., 25.9x23.7 cm, 136 colour illus.
Representing four centuries of collecting and 1000 years of Jewish history, this book brings together extraordinary Hebrew manuscripts and rare books from the Bodleian Library and Oxford colleges. Highlights of the collections include a fragment of M...
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£35,00
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Jane Austen The Chawton Letters
ISBN: HB: 9781851244744, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2017
128 pp., 18.4x11.8 cm, 15 colour illus.
In their celebration of 'little matters' – the regular round of visiting, dining out, drinking tea, of reading and walking to the shops and sending to the post – Jane Austen's letters and novels have many similarities. The thirteen letters collected...
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£14,99
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Jane Austen Writer in the World
ISBN: HB: 9781851244638, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2017
224 pp., 25.9x23.7 cm, 90 colour illus.
This collection of essays offers an intimate history of Austen's art and life told through objects associated with her personally and with the era in which she lived. Her teenage notebooks, music albums, pelisse-coat, letters, the homemade booklets i...
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£30,00
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Jane Austen Illustrated Quotations
ISBN: PB: 9781851244645, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2017
112 pp., 19x17 cm, 50 colour illus.
"Here I am once more in this Scene of Dissipation and vice, and I begin to find already my Morals corrupted". Much loved for the romantic plot lines of her novels and witty observations on relationships, Jane Austen was also a prolific letter writer...
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£9,99
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John Gower Poems on Contemporary Events
ISBN: HB: 9781851242900, Bodleian Library Publishing, May 2011
428 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The English poet John Gower (ca. 1340-1408) wrote important Latin poems witnessing the two crucial political events of his day: the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 and in 1399 the deposition of Richard II, in the "Visio Anglie" ("A Vision of England") and "...
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£110,00
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John Fuller and the Sycamore Press A Bibliographic History
ISBN: HB: 9781851243235, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2010
160 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
Established in 1968, John Fuller's Sycamore Press published some of the most influential and critically acclaimed writers of the past half-century. In addition to publishing established authors, such as W. H. Auden, Philip Larkin, and Peter Porter, t...
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£29,99
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