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St Margaret's Gospel Book The Favourite Book of an Eleventh Century Queen of Scots
ISBN: HB: 9781851243709, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2006
112 pp., 26.7x19.4 cm, 67 colour illus.
A beautiful little manuscript in the Bodleian Library, which was purchased for GBP 6 at auction in 1887, was discovered afterwards to belong to none other than Margaret, Queen of Scotland and was, according to her biographer, her favourite book. The...
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Instructions for American Servicemen in Australia, 1942
ISBN: HB: 9781851243952, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2006
64 pp., 14.8x10 cm
Nearly 1 million American soldiers passed through Australia between 1942 and 1945 as part of America's strategy to recapture the Philippines and defeat Japan. They encountered a country full of reassuring similarities and strange differences. Here wa...
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Rules of Association Football, 1863 The First FA Rule Book
ISBN: HB: 9781851243754, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2006
56 pp., 14.8x10 cm
"The Rule Book of The FA from 1863" is one of the most important books ever published – according to the writer and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg. Drawing on his recently published work, he explains in the Introduction why this book is one of the Twelve B...
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£5,99
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How to Woo, When, and to Whom A Facsimile
ISBN: HB: 9781851243457, Bodleian Library Publishing, February 2006
48 pp., 12.5x10 cm
All you need is love? Not according to W. H. Collingridge, the author of this essential guide to finding, wooing, and securing a suitable partner. Originally published in 1855, this brisk, no-nonsense handbook still has much to teach lovers and their...
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Queen Elizabeth's Book of Oxford Ms Bodley 13a, a Facsimile with Introduction and Translation
ISBN: HB: 9781851243150, Bodleian Library Publishing, January 2006
112 pp., 25x17.6 cm, 50 colour illus.
Among the many gifts presented to Queen Elizabeth during her week-long visit to Oxford in the summer of 1566, none is more remarkable than this manuscript history of the University illustrated with exceptionally fine drawings of its buildings. Though...
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Ralph Ayres' Cookery Book
ISBN: HB: 9781851240753, Bodleian Library Publishing, January 2006
96 pp., 25x17.6 cm, 72 colour illus.
At a dinner in New College, Oxford in 1774, the first course included cod with oysters, ham, fowls, boiled beef, rabbits smothered with onions, mutton, veal collops, pork griskins (lean part of the loin), New College Puddings, mince pies, and roots (...
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