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Sindbad the Sailor and Other Stories from the Arabian Nights
ISBN: HB: 9781851245017, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2018
256 pp., 24.2x19 cm, 23 colour illus., 1 black&white illus.
The much-loved tales from "The Thousand and One Nights" first appeared in English translation in the early nineteenth century. The popularity of these ancient and beguiling tales set against the backdrop of Baghdad, a city of wealth and peace, stoked...
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£30,00
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Making of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
ISBN: PB: 9781851244867, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2018
128 pp., 21x17 cm, 55 colour illus.
In the 200 years since its first publication, the story of "Frankenstein's" creation during stormy days and nights at Byron's Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva has become literary legend. In this book, Daisy Hay returns to the objects and manuscripts of t...
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£12,99
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Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library A Descriptive Catalogue
ISBN: HB: 9781851244546, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2018
864 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 185 black&white illus.
The Bodleian Library is one of the few libraries outside Germany with a substantial number of medieval manuscripts from the German-speaking lands. These manuscripts, most of which were acquired by Archbishop Laud in the 1630s, during the Thirty Years...
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£395,00
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University of Oxford A Brief History
ISBN: PB: 9781851245000, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2018
144 pp., 22x17.3 cm, 55 colour illus.
The University of Oxford is the third oldest university in Europe and remains one of the greatest universities in the world. How did such an ancient institution flourish through the ages? This book offers a succinct illustrated account of its colour...
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£12,99
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Tolkien Maker of Middle-earth
ISBN: HB: 9781851244850, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2018
416 pp., 25.9x23.7 cm, 300 colour illus.
This richly illustrated book explores the huge creative endeavour behind Tolkien's enduring popularity. Lavishly illustrated with over 300 images of his manuscripts, drawings, maps and letters, the book traces the creative process behind his most fam...
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£40,00
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Tolkien Treasures
ISBN: PB: 9781851244966, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2018
144 pp., 19.6x19.6 cm, 100 colour illus.
This volume is an excellent introduction to the world of J. R. R. Tolkien. Recounting in images and words the story of his early years and life as a scholar and family man, the book also illustrates some of the primary items associated with "The Hobb...
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£12,00
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Georgia A Cultural History Through the Wardrop Collection
ISBN: HB: 9781851244959, Bodleian Library Publishing, May 2018
160 pp., 25x21 cm, 75 illus.
When Marjory Wardrop joined her diplomat brother, Oliver, in Georgia in 1894, they found themselves witnessing the birth pangs of a modern nation. Recognising the significance of these transformative years, they actively participated in the work of I...
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£40,00
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Ada Lovelace The Making of a Computer Scientist
ISBN: HB: 9781851244881, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2018
128 pp., 21x16.1 cm, 65 illus.
Ada, Countess of Lovelace (1815-1852), daughter of romantic poet Lord Byron and his highly educated wife, Anne Isabella, is sometimes called the world's first computer programmer and has become an icon for women in technology. But how did a young wom...
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£20,00
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Making of Wind in the Willows
ISBN: PB: 9781851244799, Bodleian Library Publishing, March 2018
128 pp., 21x17 cm, 60 colour illus.
"The Wind in the Willows" has its origins in the bedtime stories that Kenneth Grahame told to his son Alastair and then continued in letters (now held in the Bodleian Library) while he was on holiday. But the book developed into something much more s...
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There Was an Old Lady
ISBN: HB: 9781851244942, Bodleian Library Publishing, March 2018
48 pp., 24.7x20 cm, illus.
One day an old lady swallows a fly and the only way she can get rid of it is to swallow a wriggling, tickling spider... For over a century this subversive rhyme has delighted children and parents alike. Its galloping rhythm is perfect for reading ou...
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