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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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Mapping Shakespeare's World
ISBN: PB: 9781851242573, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2015
208 pp., 25x21 cm, 110 colour illus.
The locations of Shakespeare's plays range from Greece, Turkey and Syria to England, and they range in time from 1000 BC to the early Tudor age. He never set a play explicitly in Elizabethan London, which he and his audience inhabited, but always in...
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£25,00
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Shakespearean Botanical
ISBN: HB: 9781851244379, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2015
208 pp., 18.4x11.8 cm, 60 colour illus.
When Falstaff calls upon the sky to rain potatoes in "The Merry Wives of Windsor", he is highlighting the late sixteenth-century belief that the exotic vegetable, recently introduced to England from the Americas, was an aphrodisiac. In "Romeo and Jul...
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£12,99
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Tea, Coffee and Chocolate How We Fell in Love with Caffeine
ISBN: HB: 9781851244065, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2015
176 pp., 17x11 cm, 20 black&white illus.
Did you know that coffee was recommended as protection against the bubonic plague in the seventeenth century? Or that tea was believed to make men "unfit to do their business" and blamed for women becoming unattractive? On the other hand, a cup of ch...
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£9,99
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What Have Plants Ever Done for Us? Western Civilization in Fifty Plants
ISBN: HB: 9781851244478, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2015
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, 50 black&white illus.
When did the British Government become the world's largest drugs pusher? What tree is frequently used to treat cancer? Which everyday condiment is the most widely traded spice on the planet? Plants are an indispensable part of our everyday life. Fro...
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£14,99
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Armenia Masterpieces from an Enduring Culture
ISBN: PB: 9781851244409, ISBN: HB: 9781851244393, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2015
288 pp., 28.5x24.4 cm, 180 colour illus.
Set like a stronghold south-west of the Caucasus mountains, Armenia is caught between East and West. Briefly a great empire in the first century BCE under King Tigranes the Great, Armenia was later incorporated first by the Sasanian and then the Byza...
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£35,00
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£60,00
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Heath Robinson's Home Front How to Make Do and Mend in Style
ISBN: HB: 9781851244447, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2015
136 pp., 18.5x12 cm, 125 black&white illus.
W. Heath Robinson is best known for his hilarious drawings of outlandish contraptions, though his work ranged across a wide variety of topics covering many aspects of British life. Collections of his drawings became so popular as to transform Heath R...
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£9,99
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Hours of Marie De Medici A Facsimile
ISBN: HB: 9781851244072, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2015
352 pp., 20.4x13.7 cm, 45 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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How to Be a Good Parent
ISBN: HB: 9781851244386, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2015
96 pp., 11.5x8.8 cm, 10 black&white illus.
"To keep children clean is something that should never be attempted. It cannot be done". "The mere provision of the vegetable is not sufficient; it must be actually eaten". "If there is room enough for somersaults, the child can be satisfied". Man...
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£4,99
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Penguin's Way
ISBN: HB: 9781851244270, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2015
48 pp., 26.2x19.9 cm, 23 colour illus.
"All over the snow plain the penguins begin to sing. The eggs are beginning to arrive". This is the story of the emperor penguins that live far away on the edge of a secret sea. During summer they are content with fishing, swimming and playing in th...
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£10,99
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