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Secrets of the Great Ocean Liners
ISBN: HB: 9781851245307, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2020
256 pp., 22.8x17.6 cm, 150 colour illus.
Before the advent of commercial transatlantic flights in the early 1950s, the only way to travel between continents was by sea. In the golden age of ocean liners, between the late nineteenth century and the Second World War, shipping companies ensure...
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£25,00
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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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Chicago in Quotations
ISBN: HB: 9781851244119, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2016
96 pp., 11.5x8.8 cm
"I have struck a city – a real city – and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages", so wrote Rudyard Kipling on his tour of America in 1899. From these inauspicious beginnings rose the 'windy city',...
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£5,99
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Shakespeare's Dead
ISBN: PB: 9781851242474, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2016
192 pp., 21x21 cm, 80 colour illus.
Pyramus: "Now die, die, die, die, die". [Dies] "A Midsummer Night's Dream" "Shakespeare's Dead" reveals the unique ways in which Shakespeare brings dying, death, and the dead to life. It establishes the cultural, religious and social contexts for th...
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£19,99
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Making of Shakespeare's First Folio
ISBN: HB: 9781851244423, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2015
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 8 black&white illus.
In late November 1623, Edward Blount finally took delivery at his bookshop at the sign of the Black Bear near St Paul's of a book that had been long in the making. "Master William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies" was the first collec...
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£20,00
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Qur'ans Books of Divine Encounter
ISBN: PB: 9781851242566, Bodleian Library Publishing, July 2015
176 pp., 19x19 cm, 58 colour illus.
This book provides a unique visual history of the Qur'an using fifty-five rare, beautiful and significant Qur'an manuscripts. A general introduction guides the reader through the Qur'an's entry into the world of late near eastern antiquity, a world...
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£14,99
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Are You Really a Genius? Timeless Tests for the Irritatingly Intelligent
ISBN: HB: 9781851244232, Bodleian Library Publishing, February 2015
128 pp., 17x11 cm
In 1938, two authors embarked on a mission for the greater good of the country: to find more geniuses. They set about compiling fiendish brain-teasers, tortuous trick questions and complex numerical challenges and tested them thoroughly on some unsus...
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£9,99
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Latin Liturgical Psalters in the Bodleian Library A Select Catalogue
ISBN: HB: 9781851242979, Bodleian Library Publishing, August 2013
640 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 112 colour illus.
The liturgical psalter is one of the most important medieval Christian books and the most frequently and richly illuminated of medieval liturgical manuscripts. In its simplest form the psalter included 150 psalms, preceded by a calendar and followed...
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£150,00
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Roy Strong Self-Portrait as a Young Man
ISBN: HB: 9781851242825, Bodleian Library Publishing, March 2013
296 pp., 21x16.1 cm, 48 black&white illus.
These are the memoirs of a cultural icon. Here, told for the first time, is the story of the formative years of Sir Roy Strong, "a young man from nowhere who went somewhere". For nearly half a century, Roy Strong has been at the forefront of the ar...
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