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Oxford Botanic Garden A Guide
ISBN: PB: 9781851245208, Bodleian Library Publishing, August 2019
80 pp., 21.8x21.8 cm, 60 colour illus.
Oxford Botanic Garden has occupied its central Oxford site next to the river Cherwell continuously since its foundation in 1621 and is the UK's oldest botanic garden. The birthplace of botanical science in the UK, it has been a leading centre for res...
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Oxford Freemasons A Social History of Apollo University Lodge
ISBN: HB: 9781851244676, Bodleian Library Publishing, February 2019
240 pp., 27.8x22.6 cm, 74 colour illus.
Over the past 200 years, many thousands of undergraduates have been initiated into membership of Apollo – the Masonic Lodge of the University of Oxford. These have included such diverse figures as Oscar Wilde, Osbert Lancaster, Samuel Reynolds Hole,...
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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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Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum A Brief History
ISBN: PB: 9781851244652, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2017
144 pp., 22x17.3 cm, 66 colour illus.
Oxford Botanic Garden is the oldest surviving botanic garden in Britain and has occupied its site in central Oxford since 1621. Conceived as a place to grow medicinal plants, born in the turmoil of civil war and nurtured during the restoration of the...
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Odes of Horace A Facsimile
ISBN: HB: 9781851244492, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2016
426 pp., 17x11.8 cm, 183 colour illus.
At the turn of the fifteenth century, private devotionals became a speciality of the renowned Ghent-Bruges illuminators. Wealthy patrons who commissioned work from these artists often spared no expense in the presentation of their personal prayer boo...
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£99,00
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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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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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Original Frankenstein
ISBN: HB: 9781851243969, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2008
448 pp., 12.8x12.6 cm
In the summer of 1816, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, wrote the first draft of "Frankenstein" after she and her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley took part in a ghost writing competition at Lord Byron's villa by Lake Geneva. Returning to England in the autumn...
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Original Laws of Cricket
ISBN: HB: 9781851243129, Bodleian Library Publishing, May 2008
64 pp., 15.5x10 cm
Of all the rules governing sport, the laws of cricket are among the oldest. The first written rules of 1744 survive uniquely on the border of a piece of linen at the MCC Museum of Cricket. They were drawn up by certain "Noblemen and Gentlemen" at a t...
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Original Rules of Rugby
ISBN: HB: 9781851243716, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2007
64 pp., 15.5x10 cm, 20 black&white illus.
The origins of the game of rugby and the codification of the rules which defined the game have been glorified in numerous legends, some of which are little more than sporting hagiography.Following on from the success of "The Rules of Association Foot...
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