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What is Red?
ISBN: HB: 9781851244584, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2016
24 pp., 24.7x20 cm, 24 colour illus.
Little Jonny ponders the meaning of colours as he explores the landscape. He dips his toes in a blue brook, picks purple flowers, digs brown earth and finds an enormous orange pumpkin. Finally yellow sunlight and the black night show him when it is t...
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£12,99
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Bodleianalia Curious Facts about Britain's Oldest University Library
ISBN: HB: 9781851242528, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2016
144 pp., 18.5x12 cm,
Which is the smallest book in the Bodleian Library? Who complained when their secret pen name was revealed in the library's catalogue? How many miles of shelving are there in the Book Storage Facility? What is the story behind the library's refusal t...
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Chicago in Quotations
ISBN: HB: 9781851244119, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2016
96 pp., 11.5x8.8 cm
"I have struck a city – a real city – and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages", so wrote Rudyard Kipling on his tour of America in 1899. From these inauspicious beginnings rose the 'windy city',...
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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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Treasures from the Map Room A Journey through the Bodleian Collections
ISBN: HB: 9781851242504, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2016
224 pp., 27x27 cm, 120 colour illus.
This book explores the stories behind seventy-five extraordinary maps. It includes unique treasures such as the fourteenth-century Gough Map of Great Britain, exquisite portolan charts made in the fifteenth century, the Selden Map of China – the earl...
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£35,00
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Art of the Islands Celtic, Pictish, Anglo-Saxon and Viking Visual Culture, c. 450-1050
ISBN: PB: 9781851244461, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2016
240 pp., 25x21 cm, 120 colour illus.
The Celtic, Pictish, Anglo-Saxon and Viking peoples who inhabited the British Isles and Ireland from late prehistory to the Norman Conquest left a rich visual heritage whose influence continues to be felt. This is the first book to present an illust...
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£25,00
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Type is Beautiful The Story of Fifty Remarkable Fonts
ISBN: HB: 9781851244317, Bodleian Library Publishing, August 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, 50 black&white illus.
Behind every typeface is a story – who designed it, and why? What are its distinctive characteristics, and what cultural baggage does it carry? This book explores fifty of the most remarkable typefaces, dating from the birth of European printing in...
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£20,00
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Heath Robinson's Second World War The Satirical Cartoons
ISBN: HB: 9781851244430, Bodleian Library Publishing, May 2016
164 pp., 25.3x19.4 cm, 46 line drawings, 104 duotone 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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New Bodleian The Making of the Weston Library
ISBN: PB: 9781851243747, Bodleian Library Publishing, May 2016
224 pp., 25x25 cm, 100 colour illus.
In 1934 Sir Giles Gilbert Scott began work on designs for a substantial new library building opposite the Old Bodleian Library site in Broad Street, Oxford in order to provide much-needed space for the growing numbers of books housed in the library a...
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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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