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Jewish Treasures
ISBN: HB: 9781851245024, Bodleian Library Publishing, May 2020
288 pp., 25.9x23.7 cm, 136 colour illus.
Representing four centuries of collecting and 1000 years of Jewish history, this book brings together extraordinary Hebrew manuscripts and rare books from the Bodleian Library and Oxford colleges. Highlights of the collections include a fragment of M...
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£35,00
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Vintage Advertising An A to Z
ISBN: PB: 9781851245406, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2020
144 pp., 19.6x19.6 cm, 109 colour illus.
How did the advertisers of the past sell electric corsets, carbolic smoke balls or even the first televisions? Which celebrities endorsed products? How did innovations in printing techniques and packaging design play a part in the evolution of advert...
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£15,00
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Art of Advertising
ISBN: HB: 9781851245383, Bodleian Library Publishing, March 2020
256 pp., 25.9x23.7 cm, 200 colour illus.
Advertisers in the nineteenth and early twentieth century pushed the boundaries of printing, manipulated language, inspired a new form of art and exploited many formats, including calendars, bookmarks and games. This collection of essays examines th...
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£30,00
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Sanskrit Treasury A Compendium of Literature from the Clay Sanskrit Library
ISBN: HB: 9781851245314, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2019
240 pp., 28.5x24.4 cm, 120 colour illus.
This beautiful collection brings together passages from the renowned stories, poems, dramas, and myths of South Asian literature, including the Mahabharata and the Ramaya?a. Drawing on the translations published by the Clay Sanskrit Library, the pass...
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£50,00
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Museum Miscellany
ISBN: HB: 9781851245116, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2019
160 pp., 17x11 cm, 20 black&white illus.
Which are the oldest museums in the world? What is a cabinet of curiosities? Who haunts Hampton Court? What is on the FBI's list of stolen art? "A Museum Miscellany" celebrates the intriguing world of galleries and museums, from national institution...
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£9,99
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How We Fell in Love with Italian Food
ISBN: HB: 9781851245123, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2019
256 pp., 25.4x19.7 cm, 68 colour illus.
Pizza, pasta, pesto and olive oil: today, it's hard to imagine any supermarket without these items. But how did these foods – and many more Italian ingredients – become so widespread and popular? This book maps the extraordinary progress of Italian...
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£25,00
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Islamic Maps
ISBN: HB: 9781851244928, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2019
192 pp., 28x23.7 cm, 60 colour illus.
Spanning the Islamic world, from ninth-century Baghdad to nineteenth-century Iran, this book tells the story of the key Muslim map-makers and the art of Islamic cartography. Muslims were uniquely placed to explore the edges of the inhabited world and...
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£35,00
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Novel Houses Twenty Famous Fictional Dwellings
ISBN: HB: 9781851244805, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2019
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 colour illus.
"Novel Houses" visits unforgettable dwellings in twenty legendary works of English and American fiction. Each chapter stars a famous novel in which a dwelling is pivotal to the plot, and reveals how personally significant that place was to the writer...
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£25,00
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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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Thinking 3D Books, Images and Ideas from Leonardo to the Present
ISBN: HB: 9781851245253, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2019
200 pp., 25.9x23.7 cm, 80 colour illus.
During the Renaissance, artists and illustrators developed the representation of truthful three-dimensional forms into a highly skilled art. As reliable illustrations of three-dimensional subjects became more prevalent, they also influenced the way i...
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£35,00
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