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Evelyn Waugh's Oxford Barbara Cooke 9781851244874
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £13.99Oxford 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... -
Oxford in Prints: 1675-1900 Peter Whitfield 9781851242467
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.42For 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: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.29Pyramus: '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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.86Little 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: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.86The 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: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.34This 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: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.29Manifold 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.59Which 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: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.60To 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: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.56Dressy 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: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.66Established 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: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.87The 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... -
Heath Robinson's Second World War: The Satirical Cartoons by W. Heath Robinson
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £9.48Soldiers disguised as a herd of cows, cork bath mats for troops crossing streams and a tank with a piano attachment for camp concerts are just some of the absurd inventions to be found in this book... -
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: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.54Many 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: £55.00Booksplease Price: £47.79Since 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: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.44Between 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: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.92'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: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.98Throughout 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: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.08Oxford'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: £5.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900177200Author Edward UllendorffFormat HardbackImprint Bodleian LibraryPublisher Bodleian Library -
John Aubrey and the Advancement of Learning William Poole (Fellow, New College, Oxford) 9781851243198
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.62John 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: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.56In 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.80'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: £60.00Booksplease Price: £52.65Set 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: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.17Marley'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... -
Nature's Apothecary Margaret Willes 9781851246694
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.87Herbs have been used for centuries to cure all manner of ailments. In the Middle Ages, before the advent of affordable healthcare, monastery gardens were used to cultivate plants to treat both the... -
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The Huns Have Got my Gramophone!: Advertisements from the Great War by Amanda-Jane Doran 9781851243990 [USED COPY]
RRP: £5.00Booksplease Price: £1.87Fountain-Pens - The Super-Pen for Our Super-Men Ladies! Learn To Drive! Your Country Needs Women Drivers! Do you drink German water? When Britain declared war on Germany in 1914, companies... -
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Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain, 1942 by 9781851240852 [USED COPY]
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £2.20In 1942 the United States War Department distributed a handbook to American Servicemen advising them on the peculiarities of the 'British, their country, and their ways'. The guide was intended to... -
Martin Lister and his Remarkable Daughters: The Art of Science in the Seventeenth Century Anna Marie Roos 9781851244898
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.62Martin 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... -
Penguin's Way by Johanna Johnston
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.67'All over the snow plain the penguins begin to sing. The eggs are beginning to arrive.' This is the story of the emperor penguins that live far away on the edge of a secret sea. During summer they... -
London: Prints & Drawings before 1800 Bernard Nurse 9781851244126
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.48By the end of the eighteenth century London was the second largest city in the world, its relentless growth fuelled by Britain's expanding empire. Before the age of photography, the most widely used... -
Whale's Way by Johanna Johnston
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.67'That is the way of the largest creature on earth. That is the whale's way.' The humpback whales journey through polar seas, diving, spouting and leaping. As winter comes they swim through... -
Making of Lewis Carroll's Alice and the Invention of Wonderland, The by Peter Hunt
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £10.99'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... -
Great Literary Friendships by Janet Phillips
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.39Close friendships are a heart-warming feature of many of our best-loved works of fiction. From Jane Eyre and Helen Burns' poignant schoolgirl relationship to Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn's... -
The Ormesby Psalter: Patrons and Artists in Medieval East Anglia Frederica C.E. Law-Turner 9781851243105
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.98The 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... -
Sindbad the Sailor & Other Stories from the Arabian Nights Edmund Dulac 9781851245017
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.98The much-loved tales from 'The Thousand and One Nights' first appeared in English translation in the early nineteenth century. The popularity of these ancient and beguiling tales set against the... -
Oxford Botanic Garden: A Guide Simon Hiscock 9781851245208
RRP: £8.00Booksplease Price: £7.64Oxford Botanic Garden has occupied its central Oxford site next to the river Cherwell continuously since its foundation in 1621 and is the UK's oldest botanic garden. The birthplace of botanical... -
Aesop's Fables by Agnes Miller Parker
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.56For 25 centuries, the animal stories which go by the name of Aesop's Fables have amused and instructed generations of children and adults alike. They are still as fresh and poignant today as they... -
Great Tales Never End, The: Essays in Memory of Christopher Tolkien by Richard Ovenden
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.26Over more than four decades J.R.R. Tolkien's son and literary executor, Christopher Tolkien, published some twenty-four volumes of his father's work, much more than his father had succeeded in... -
That's the Ticket for Soup!: Victorian Views on Vocabulary as Told in the Pages of 'Punch' by David Crystal
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.91The vocabulary of past times, no longer used in English, is always fascinating, especially when we see how it was pilloried by the satirists of the day. Here we have Victorian high and low...