Bodleian Library Treasures
ISBN: PB: 9781851244089,
ISBN: HB: 9781851244775,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
September 2017
240 pp., 27,0x27,0 cm, 180 colour illus.
240 pp., 27,0x27,0 cm, 180 colour illus.
Since its foundation in 1602, the Bodleian Library has acquired manuscripts, printed books, maps, music and ephemera in all languages, from all ages and from all corners of the globe. From this huge collection David Vaisey, former Bodley's Librarian...
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20.00 GBP
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35.00 GBP
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Ormesby Psalter
Patrons and Artists in Medieval East Anglia
ISBN: PB: 9781851243105,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
April 2017
224 pp., 27,6x19,2 cm, 71 colour illus.
224 pp., 27,6x19,2 cm, 71 colour illus.
The Ormesby Psalter is perhaps the most magnificent yet enigmatic of the great Gothic psalters produced in East Anglia in the first half of the fourteenth century. Its pages boast a wealth of decoration picked out in rich colours and burnished gold,...
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30.00 GBP
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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.
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 GBP
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Oxford in Prints
1675-1900
ISBN: HB: 9781851242467,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
November 2016
160 pp., 24,5x27,8 cm, 76 colour illus.
160 pp., 24,5x27,8 cm, 76 colour illus.
For more than three centuries Oxford has been the subject of fine illustrated books and engraved prints. These exquisitely made illustrations have become part of the historical record, showing how Oxford's identity is rooted in the past and tracing a...
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25.00 GBP
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Odes of Horace
A Facsimile
ISBN: HB: 9781851244492,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
September 2016
426 pp., 17,0x11,8 cm, 183 colour illus.
426 pp., 17,0x11,8 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 GBP
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Pocket Magna Carta
1217 Text and Translation
ISBN: HB: 9781851244522,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
April 2016
64 pp., 15,5x10,0 cm,
64 pp., 15,5x10,0 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 GBP
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Magna Carta
Origins and Legacy
ISBN: PB: 9781851243631,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
August 2015
160 pp., 25,0x21,0 cm, 40 colour illus.
160 pp., 25,0x21,0 cm, 40 colour illus.
Magna Carta is arguably the most famous document in world history. 2015 marks its 800th anniversary. Yet, until relatively recently, it was unknown how many versions of the document survive, the means by which they were distributed, or the relationsh...
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25.00 GBP
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Historiae Britannicae Defensio - A Defence of the British History
ISBN: HB: 9781851244362,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
June 2015
390 pp., 22,8x15,2 cm,
390 pp., 22,8x15,2 cm,
Sir John Prise (1501/2-1555), of Brecon, was an influential lawyer and administrator during the reigns of King Henry VIII, King Edward VI and Queen Mary I. In the 1530s he was brought under the aegis of Thomas Cromwell, to whose family he became conn...
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110.00 GBP
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Dr Radcliffe's Library
The Story of the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford
ISBN: HB: 9781851244294,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
November 2014
104 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 8 black&white illus, 36 colour plates
104 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 8 black&white illus, 36 colour plates
The Radcliffe Camera is one of the most celebrated buildings in Oxford. Instantly recognizable, its great dome rises amid the Gothic spires of the University. Through early maps, plans and drawings, portraits, engravings and photographs this book tel...
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12.99 GBP
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Ye Berlyn Tapestrie
John Hassall's Satirical First World War Panorama
ISBN: HB: 9781851244164,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
August 2014
64 pp., 14,5x17,5 cm, 30 colour illus.
64 pp., 14,5x17,5 cm, 30 colour illus.
The horror of the First World War brought out a characteristic response in a group of English artists, who resorted to black humour. Among these, John Hassall, a pioneering British illustrator and creator of the influential 'Skegness is so bracing' p...
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9.99 GBP
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