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Splendours of Japan: Highlights from the Bodleian Library Bodleian Library Publishing 9781851245901
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $83.71The Bodleian Library houses one of the oldest institutional collections of Japanese rare books and manuscripts in Europe, dating back to the first half of the seventeenth century. Leading scholars... -
Wonderful Things from 400 Years of Collecting: The Bodleian Library 1602-2002 Bodleian Library 9781851240777
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $52.57Taking its title from Howard Carter's famous description of his first glimpse of the treasures of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, this book offers a timeless portrait of highlights representing the range... -
A Catalogue of the ... Pictures ... in the Picture Gallery, Bodleian Library, and Ashmolean Museum at Oxford. With Additions by Bodleian Library 9780461184198
RRP: $23.30Booksplease Price: $19.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461184198Author Bodleian LibraryFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint -
Jane Austen: Illustrated Quotations by The Bodleian Library
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.75'Here I am once more in this Scene of Dissipation and vice, and I begin to find already my Morals corrupted.' Much loved for the romantic plot lines of her novels and witty observations on... -
Father Christmas' ABC: A Fascimile by F. Warne & Co.
RRP: $11.68Booksplease Price: $11.02Q is the Quadrille, danced at our party R for the Reindeer, of Santa Claus hearty This very special picture book is an unusual and utterly enchanting ABC entirely devoted to the theme of... -
Wilfred Owen: An Illustrated Life by Jane Potter
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $16.77Wilfred Owen is the poet of pity, the voice of the soldier maimed, blinded, traumatised and killed, not just in the Great War, but in all wars since, so resonant has his message become. Although he... -
The Curious World of Dickens by Clive Hurst
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $16.77Published to mark the 200th anniversary of Dickens's birth, this book celebrates the greatest of English novelists by illustrating some of his abiding preoccupations. Prompted by quotations from... -
Heath Robinson: How to be a Motorist by W. Heath Robinson
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.75W. Heath Robinson is best known for his hilarious drawings of zany contraptions, though his work ranged across a wide variety of topics covering many aspects of British life in the decades following... -
Prize Volumes: Catalogue for Designer Bookbinders International Competition 2013 Jeanette Koch 9781851242580
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $52.61'Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.' The Tempest, I, ii, 166 With Shakespeare as the inspiration for Designer... -
Ye Berlyn Tapestrie: John Hassall's satirical First World War panorama by John Hassall
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.75The 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... -
The Food Lovers' Anthology: A literary compendium by Bodleian Library the
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $17.36'Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.' - Talleyrand 'He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.' - Jonathan Swift 'There is no love sincerer than the... -
Making Medieval Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.76Many 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... -
We Are Not Amused: Victorian Views on Pronunciation as Told in the Pages of Punch by David Crystal
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $21.06Pronunciation governs our regional and social identity more powerfully than any other aspect of spoken language. No wonder, then, that it has attracted most attention from satirists. In this... -
London in Quotations by Jaqueline Mitchell
Booksplease Price: $7.64'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford,' said Samuel Johnson in 1777. Since then the capital has been characterised variously as a... -
The Forms of Nameless Things: Experimental Photographs by William Henry Fox Talbot by Geoffrey Batchen
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $47.89William Henry Fox Talbot, the English inventor of photography, created around 15,000 photographs in the nineteenth century, most of them attempts to produce compelling scientific documents or... -
Evelyn Waugh's Oxford Barbara Cooke 9781851244874
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $27.28Oxford held a special place in Evelyn Waugh's imagination. So formative were his Oxford years that the city never left him, appearing again and again in his novels in various forms. This book... -
112 Gripes about the French by Bodleian Library
Booksplease Price: $5.85When American troops arrived in Paris to help maintain order at the end of the Second World War they were, at first, received by the local population with a sense of euphoria. However, the French... -
Oxford in Prints: 1675-1900 Peter Whitfield 9781851242467
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $45.67For 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... -
Shakespeare's Dead Emma Smith 9781851242474
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $35.67Pyramus: 'Now die, die, die, die, die.' [Dies] A Midsummer Night's Dream 'Shakespeare's Dead' reveals the unique ways in which Shakespeare brings dying, death, and the dead to life. It establishes... -
What is Red? by Suzanne Gottlieb
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $21.18Little 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... -
Oxford University: Stories from the Archives by Alice Blackford Millea
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $48.48The University Archives was established in 1634. Based in the Bodleian Library, it is the institutional archive of Oxford University, holding records which span just over 800 years, documenting the... -
Treasures from the Map Room: A Journey through the Bodleian Collections Debbie Hall 9781851242504
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $63.06This 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... -
Manifold Greatness: The Making of the King James Bible Helen Moore (Fellow and Tutor in English, Corpus Christi College, Oxford University) 9781851243495
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $35.67Manifold Greatness: the Making of the King James Bible tells the story of the creation and immediate afterlife of the King James translation of the bible, first published in 1611. The King James... -
Museum Miscellany, A by Claire Cock-Starkey
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $16.75Which 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... -
Bicycles: Vintage People on Photo Postcards by Tom Phillips
RRP: $19.50Booksplease Price: $16.77To celebrate the acquisition of the Tom Phillips archive, the Bodleian Library has asked the artist to assemble and design a series of books drawing on his themed collection of over 50,000... -
British Dandies: Engendering Scandal and Fashioning a Nation by Dominic James
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $47.89Dressy men as a type of celebrity have played a distinctive part in the cultural - and even in the political - life of Britain over several centuries. But unlike the twenty-first-century hipster, the... -
John Fuller and the Sycamore Press: A Bibliographic History by Ryan Roberts
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $51.99Established in 1968, John Fuller's Sycamore Press was an important independently run press that published some of the most influential and critically acclaimed writers of the past half-century. In... -
The Original Rules of Golf by Dale Concannon
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $15.35The first known rules of golf were drawn up in 1744 in Edinburgh for the world's first open golf competition at Leith by the Gentlemen Golfers of Edinburgh, who became The Honourable Company of... -
Korean Treasures: Volume 2: Rare Books, Manuscripts and Artefacts in the Bodleian Libraries and Museums of Oxford University Minh Chung (Head of the Bodleian Chinese Studies Library and Korean Collections, University of Oxford) 9781851245260
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $61.50Many important and valuable rare books, manuscripts and artefacts related to Korea have been acquired by donations throughout the long history of the Bodleian Libraries and the museums of the... -
Provenance Research in Book History: A Handbook David Pearson 9781851245109
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $93.19Since 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... -
Postcards from Checkpoint Charlie: Images of the Berlin Wall Andrew Roberts 9781851243228
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $16.46Between 1945 and 1961, an estimated 2.5 million people fled East Germany in search of the political and economic freedom offered by West Germany. To thwart this tide of defections, on the morning of... -
Defying Hitler: The White Rose Pamphlets by Alexandra Lloyd
RRP: $29.25Booksplease Price: $25.19'Long Live Freedom!' - Hans Scholl's last words before his execution The White Rose (die Weisse Rose) resistance circle was a group of students and a professor at the University of Munich who in... -
Heroic Works: Catalogue for Designer Bookbinders International Competition 2017 Jeanette Koch 9781851242498
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $52.61Throughout the ages, every culture has created myths and legends which recount the great deeds of its heroes and their epic struggles with larger-than-life forces. Designer Bookbinders 3rd... -
Historic Heart of Oxford University, The by Geoffrey Tyack
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $56.71Oxford's university buildings are world-famous. Over eight centuries, starting in the twelfth century, the University - the third oldest in Europe - gradually occupied a substantial portion of the... -
Catalogue of Ethiopian Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Edward Ullendorff 9780900177200
Booksplease Price: $10.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900177200Author Edward UllendorffFormat HardbackImprint -
John Aubrey and the Advancement of Learning William Poole (Fellow, New College, Oxford) 9781851243198
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $44.11John Aubrey (1626-97) was one of the best-connected scholars and antiquaries in the great decades of the British scientific revolution. Immersed in the intellectual fervour of the era, he is best... -
The Making of Shakespeare's First Folio by Emma Smith 9781851245987
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $47.89In late November 1623, Edward Blount finally took delivery to his bookshop at the sign of the Black Bear near St Paul's a book that had been long in the making. Master William Shakespeares Comedies,... -
The Potato Book by John Clark Newsham 9781851246236
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $21.06'Everybody who possibly can ought to grow potatoes...' First published towards the end of the First World War, this charming little book is a love letter to the potato, from its origins in South... -
Armenia: Masterpieces from an Enduring Culture Theo Marten van Lint 9781851244393
RRP: $117.00Booksplease Price: $102.67Set like a stronghold south-west of the Caucasus mountains, Armenia is caught between East and West. Briefly a great empire in the first century BCE under King Tigranes the Great, Armenia was later... -
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 9781851246175
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $41.28Marley's ghost, Bob Cratchit's slide down icy Cornhill, Mr and Mrs Fezziwig's dance, and of course Ebenezer Scrooge himself, are all exquisitely illustrated in this luxury collector's edition of...