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Princess who Hid in a Tree An Anglo-Saxon Story
ISBN: HB: 9781851245185, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2019
40 pp., 24.7x20 cm, fully illustrated
This story is about a brave and kind Anglo-Saxon princess called Frideswide who lived in Oxford a long time ago and just happened to be brilliant at climbing very tall trees. Her talent came in useful one day when a wicked king tried to kidnap her. H...
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£12,99
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Provenance Research in Book History A Handbook
ISBN: HB: 9781851245109, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2019
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 200 colour illus.
Since this handbook was first published in 1994, interest in the book as a material object, and in the ways in which books have been owned, read and used, has burgeoned. Now established as a standard reference work, this book has been revised and exp...
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£55,00
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Petrograd, 1917 Witnesses to the Russian Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9781851244607, Bodleian Library Publishing, March 2017
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 32 colour illus., 44 black&white illus.
"It's damned hard lines asking for bread and only getting a bullet!" The dramatic and chaotic events surrounding the Russian Revolution have been studied and written about extensively for the last hundred years, by historians and journalists alike....
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£25,00
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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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Pocket Magna Carta 1217 Text and Translation
ISBN: HB: 9781851244522, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2016
64 pp., 15.5x10 cm,
"No freeman is to be taken or imprisoned, or dispossessed... except through the lawful judgment of his peers or through the law of the land". "To no one shall we sell, to no one shall we deny or delay right or justice" "Magna Carta" (or "Great Char...
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£5,99
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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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Portraits of Shakespeare
ISBN: PB: 9781851244058, Bodleian Library Publishing, August 2015
128 pp., 22x17.3 cm, 40 colour illus.
Within Shakespeare's lifetime there was already some curiosity about what the writer of such brilliant poems, sonnets and plays looked like. Yet like so much else about him, Shakespeare's appearance is mysterious. Why is it so difficult to find imag...
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£14,99
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Paintings from Mughal India
ISBN: PB: 9781851240876, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2013
184 pp., 21x15.4 cm, 80 colour illus.
A unique style of court painting, combining Persian, Indian and European elements, developed in India under the Mughal emperors in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Originally an art of book illustration, it soon gave rise to highly naturalist...
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£10,00
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Prize Volumes Catalogue for Designer Bookbinders International Competition 2013
ISBN: HB: 9781851242580, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2013
112 pp., 26.4x19.6 cm, 200 colour illus.
"Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom" – "The Tempest" With Shakespeare as the inspiration for Designer Bookbinders second International Competition, this lavish catalogue feature...
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£30,00
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Planting Paradise Cultivating the Garden
ISBN: HB: 9781851243433, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2010
176 pp., 25x25 cm, 51 colour illus.
An astonishing 430,000 green plant species and 350,000 flowering plant species have been identified since the early sixteenth century. According to Stephen Harris, author of "Planting Paradise", "these figures reflect the exploration, the accumulatio...
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£29,99
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