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Shelley's Ghost Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family
ISBN: PB: 9781851243396, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2010
176 pp., 25x18.4 cm, 83 colour illus.
Few families enjoy such a remarkable reputation for their contribution to the literature and intellectual life of Britain as the Godwins and the Shelleys. Yet this reputation was shaped in a subtle way by the selective release of literary manuscripts...
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£19,99
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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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£25,00
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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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Original Rules of Tennis
ISBN: HB: 9781851243181, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2010
64 pp., 15.5x10 cm
While Jeu de paume has been played in France for hundreds of years and was associated with the French and English medieval and renaissance courts, the modern game of tennis dates from 1874, when the rules were defined by Major Walter Clopton Wingfiel...
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£5,99
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Itineraries of William Wey
ISBN: HB: 9781851243044, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2010
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
William Wey, fifteenth-century Devon priest, Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, and Bursar of Eton College, made three pilgrimages between 1456 and 1462 – to Compostella, Rome and the Holy Land. The complete text of his narrative has never before been...
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£27,99
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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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Pick of the Bunch The Story of Twelve Treasured Flowers
ISBN: HB: 9781851243037, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2009
224 pp., 19.4x19.4 cm, 70 colour illus.
The list of favorite flowers has remained remarkably constant over the centuries. From late-sixteenth, early seventeenth-century Dutch and Flemish flower-pieces we can see what were considered desirable at that time: the rose, iris, carnation and lil...
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£10,00
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Talking About Detective Fiction
ISBN: HB: 9781851243099, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2009
144 pp., 19.6x12.9 cm
To judge by the worldwide success of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie's Poirot, it is not only the Anglo-Saxons who have an appetite for mystery and mayhem. Talking about the craft of detective writing and sharing her personal...
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£12,99
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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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£30,00
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Original Rules of Golf
ISBN: HB: 9781851243426, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2009
64 pp., 15.5x10 cm
The first known rules of golf were drawn up in 1744 in Edinburgh for the world's first open golf competition at Leith by the Gentlemen Golfers of Edinburgh, who became The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers. In the nineteenth century, the rules...
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£5,99
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