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Birds An Anthology
ISBN: HB: 9781851245291, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2020
272 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 25 black&white illus.
Thomas Hardy notes the thrush's "full-hearted evensong of joy illimited", Gilbert White observes how swallows sweep through the air but swifts "dash round in circles" and Rachel Carson watches sanderlings at the ocean's edge, scurrying "across the be...
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£16,99
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Now and Then England 1970-2015
ISBN: HB: 9781851245338, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2019
160 pp., 25.9x23.7 cm, 4 colour illus., 105 black&white illus.
Daniel Meadows is a pioneer of contemporary British documentary practice. His photographs and audio recordings, made over forty-five years, capture the life of England's "great ordinary". Challenging the status quo by working collaboratively, he has...
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£25,00
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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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£35,00
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Hungry Goat
ISBN: HB: 9781851245031, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2018
40 pp., 24.7x20 cm, fully illustrated
The (very) hungry goat has a big appetite which gets him into all kinds of adventures. He'll eat anything, from pigs swill to frying pans and even barbed wire. As a result he grows fatter and fatter until one day he gobbles up something that sends hi...
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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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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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New York in Quotations
ISBN: HB: 9781851244201, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2016
96 pp., 11.5x8.8 cm
"Make your mark in New York and you are a made man" wrote Mark Twain, encapsulating both the naked ambition of its citizens and the opportunities up for grabs in the Big Apple. Others take a more cynical approach: it's "an aviary over-stocked with ja...
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£5,99
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Paris in Quotations
ISBN: HB: 9781851244102, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2016
96 pp., 11.5x8.8 cm
Over the centuries, Paris has intrigued, revolted, scandalized and most of all captured the heart of many a visitor. For Dickens it is the "most extraordinary place in the world", for Hazlitt, "a beast of a city", and for French writers, the essence...
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£5,99
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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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