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Merton College Library
ISBN: PB: 9781851245390, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2020
144 pp., 22x17.3 cm, 85 colour illus.
The Merton library is rightly known for its antiquity, its beautiful medieval and early modern architecture and fittings and for its remarkable and important collection of manuscripts and rare books, yet a nineteenth-century plan to tear the medieval...
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Making of Handel's Messiah
ISBN: PB: 9781851245062, Bodleian Library Publishing, August 2020
144 pp., 21x17 cm, 54 colour illus.
The first performance of Handel's Messiah in Dublin in 1742 is now legendary. Gentlemen were asked to leave their swords at home and ladies to come without hoops in their skirts in order to fit more people into the audience. Why then, did this now fa...
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Making of Lewis Carroll's Alice and the Invention of Wonderland
ISBN: PB: 9781851245321, Bodleian Library Publishing, August 2020
128 pp., 21x17 cm, 67 colour illus.
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking-Glass" are two of the most famous, translated, and quoted books in the world. But how did a casual tale told by Charles Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll), an eccentric Oxford mathematician, to Ali...
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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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Martin Lister and his Remarkable Daughters The Art of Science in the Seventeenth Century
ISBN: HB: 9781851244898, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2018
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 46 colour illus., 33 black&white illus.
Martin Lister, royal physician and fellow of the Royal Society, was an extraordinarily prolific natural historian with an expertise in shells and molluscs. Disappointed with the work of established artists, Lister decided to teach his daughters, Sus...
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£25,00
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Making of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
ISBN: PB: 9781851244867, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2018
128 pp., 21x17 cm, 55 colour illus.
In the 200 years since its first publication, the story of "Frankenstein's" creation during stormy days and nights at Byron's Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva has become literary legend. In this book, Daisy Hay returns to the objects and manuscripts of t...
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Medieval Manuscripts from the Mainz Charterhouse in the Bodleian Library A Descriptive Catalogue
ISBN: HB: 9781851244546, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2018
864 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 185 black&white illus.
The Bodleian Library is one of the few libraries outside Germany with a substantial number of medieval manuscripts from the German-speaking lands. These manuscripts, most of which were acquired by Archbishop Laud in the 1630s, during the Thirty Years...
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£395,00
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Making of Wind in the Willows
ISBN: PB: 9781851244799, Bodleian Library Publishing, March 2018
128 pp., 21x17 cm, 60 colour illus.
"The Wind in the Willows" has its origins in the bedtime stories that Kenneth Grahame told to his son Alastair and then continued in letters (now held in the Bodleian Library) while he was on holiday. But the book developed into something much more s...
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Making Medieval Manuscripts
ISBN: PB: 9781851244683, Bodleian Library Publishing, November 2017
176 pp., 21.5x20 cm
Many beautiful illuminated manuscripts survive from the Middle Ages and can be seen in libraries and museums throughout Europe. But who were the skilled craftsmen who made these exquisite books? What precisely is parchment? How were medieval manuscri...
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March Wind
ISBN: HB: 9781851244614, Bodleian Library Publishing, March 2017
32 pp., 24.7x20 cm, fully illustrated
One windy day a little boy happens upon a large black hat, lying in the street. When he tries it on, he becomes a whole host of different characters he's always wanted to be: a soldier marching through the puddles, a cowboy galloping on his steed, a...
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