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Jane Austen: Illustrated Quotations by The Bodleian Library
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.22'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... -
The Making of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Daisy Hay
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.85'Invention ... does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos' - Mary Shelley In the 200 years since its first publication, the story of Frankenstein's creation during stormy days and... -
A Barrel of Monkeys: A Compendium of Collective Nouns for Animals by Samuel Fanous
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.22We're all familiar with 'a flock of sheep' but what are the collective nouns for racehorses, pigs, zebras or giraffes? Drawing on a range of sources, from fifteenth-century hunting terms to more... -
Postcards of Lost Royals Andrew Roberts 9781851243327
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €10.04A century ago, hereditary rulers governed the great world powers. The royal houses of Europe, Africa, and Asia once ruled continents and the dominions beyond the seas. Today, just ten monarchs still... -
Women & Hats: Vintage People of Photo Postcards by Philip Treacy
RRP: €11.90Booksplease Price: €10.23To 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... -
German Invasion Plans for the British Isles, 1940 by Bodleian Library the
RRP: €8.32Booksplease Price: €7.62I have decided to prepare a landing operation against England, and if necessary to carry it. - Adolf Hitler, 16 July 1940. Immediately after the fall of France in June 1940, Hitler ordered his... -
Portraits of Shakespeare by Katherine Duncan-Jones
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.36Within Shakespeare's lifetime there was already some curiosity about what the writer of such brilliant poems, sonnets and plays looked like. Yet like so much else about him, Shakespeare's appearance... -
Better Bed Manners: A Humorous 1930s Guide to Bedroom Etiquette for Husbands and Wives by Anne Balliol 9781851246199
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.85Ever needed tips on how to sleep next to a snoring spouse? How to convalesce in style? Or the etiquette of staying in a haunted house? This humorous book was originally published in the 1930s as an... -
How to Be a Good Wife by 9781851243815
RRP: €7.13Booksplease Price: €5.94The art of being a good wife is not an easy one. This little guide was written for the middle classes of the 1930s who were reading one of the first modern self-help books. Illustrated with... -
Great Literary Friendships by Janet Phillips
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.12Close 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... -
Curious History of Weights & Measures, The by Claire Cock-Starkey
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.36How long is an ell? What is the largest size of champagne bottle? How do you measure the heat of a chilli pepper? Why is the depth of water measured in fathoms? And what is a cubit? The Curious... -
Oxford Botanic Garden: A Guide Simon Hiscock 9781851245208
RRP: €9.52Booksplease Price: €9.09Oxford 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... -
Heath Robinson: How to be a Perfect Husband by W. Heath Robinson
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €11.08What makes a perfect husband? In this tongue-in-cheek guide, illustrated by Heath Robinson's inimitable cartoons and contraptions, there are many charmingly old-fashioned tips for how to succeed in... -
Bill of Rights: The Origin of Britain's Democracy by Jonathan Sumption
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €8.48In 2017, the Government's attempt to trigger Article 50 and so leave the European Union resulted in a judgement by the Supreme Court, which stated that the Government was unentitled to do so without... -
A Splendour of Succulents & Cacti by Caroline Ball
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €12.20Succulents, especially cacti, are the current focus of serious ecological studies but also the darlings of designers and style influencers. Their endearing, characterful looks have given them the... -
What Can Cats Do? by Abner Graboff
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.92There are many things cats can do which children can't, such as lap up milk and use their tongues as combs. There are also a number of things that cats can't do, like sing children to sleep, or get... -
Cornucopia of Fruit & Vegetables, A: Illustrations from an eighteenth-century botanical treasury by Caroline Ball
RRP: €17.85Booksplease Price: €15.37Close-up photos of plump apricots, juicy mangoes, crisp lettuce ... these are familiar to us all through cookery books and garden guides. But seeing fruit and vegetables as detailed art, viewed... -
Menswear: Vintage People on Photo Postcards by Tom Phillips
RRP: €11.90Booksplease Price: €10.23This series celebrates the Bodleian Library's acquisition of Tom Phillips's archive of over 50,000 photographic postcards dating from the first half of the twentieth century, a period in which,... -
Hyphens & Hashtags*: *The Stories behind the symbols on our keyboard by Claire Cock-Starkey
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.85The punctuation marks, mathematical symbols and glyphs which haunt the edges of our keyboards have evolved over many hundreds of years. They shape our understanding of texts, calculations and online... -
Just the Job: How Trades got their Names by Alexander Tulloch
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.85What did a gongfarmer do? How is a chaperone connected to a bird of prey? What is the etymology behind cloud architect? And is there a link between secretaries and secrets? The story behind these... -
The Original Rules of Rugby by Martin Johnson 9781851243716
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €8.48The origins of the game of rugby and the codification of the rules which defined the game have been glorified in numerous legends, some of which are little more than sporting hagiography. ... -
Einstein in Oxford Andrew Robinson 9781851246380
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.48Albert Einstein visited Oxford in 1931, to receive an honorary degree and to lecture on relativity and the Universe. While lecturing, he naturally chalked equations and diagrams on several... -
Instructions for British Servicemen in France, 1944 by 9781851243358
Booksplease Price: €7.13In 1944 the British War Office distributed a handbook to British soldiers informing them what to expect and how to behave in a newly-liberated France. Containing candid descriptions of this... -
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The Original Rules of Rugby by Martin Johnson 9781851243716 [USED COPY]
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €2.61The origins of the game of rugby and the codification of the rules which defined the game have been glorified in numerous legends, some of which are little more than sporting hagiography. ... -
Ralph Ayres' Cookery Book Jane Jakeman 9781851240753
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €16.56Ralph Ayres was head cook at New College in the 1770s. This book is a fascinating insight into the eighteenth-century kitchen, a period of great interest to social and culinary historians, and... -
The Slave Trade Debate: Contemporary Writings For and Against John Pinfold 9781851243167
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.64At the height of the debate about the slave trade and its abolition in the 1780s and '90s, each side issued pamphlets in support of its position. This publication reproduces a selection of... -
Father Christmas' ABC: A Fascimile by F. Warne & Co.
RRP: €7.13Booksplease Price: €6.72Q 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: €11.90Booksplease Price: €10.23Wilfred 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... -
We Are Not Amused: Victorian Views on Pronunciation as Told in the Pages of Punch by David Crystal
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.85Pronunciation 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... -
Veronica by Roger Duvoisin
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.03Veronica the hippopotamus lives with her large family on the cool muddy river bank, swimming in its clear waters. But she is not happy. She dreams of becoming a conspicuous hippopotamus, even... -
Making of Handel's Messiah, The by Andrew Gant
RRP: €17.85Booksplease Price: €13.08The 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... -
Paris in Quotations by Jaqueline Mitchell
RRP: €7.13Booksplease Price: €6.75Over the centuries, Paris has intrigued, revolted, scandalized and most of all captured the heart of many a visitor. For Dickens it is the 'most extraordinary place in the world', for Hazlitt, 'a... -
Chicago in Quotations by Stuart Shea
RRP: €7.13Booksplease Price: €6.75'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... -
Tea, Coffee & Chocolate: How We Fell in Love with Caffeine by Melanie King
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.58Did you know that coffee was recommended as protection against the bubonic plague in the seventeenth century? Or that tea was believed to make men 'unfit to do their business' and blamed for women... -
Weddings: Vintage People on Photo Postcards by Tom Phillips
RRP: €11.90Booksplease Price: €10.23To 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... -
Bicycles: Vintage People on Photo Postcards by Tom Phillips
RRP: €11.90Booksplease Price: €10.23To 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... -
Postcards from Checkpoint Charlie: Images of the Berlin Wall Andrew Roberts 9781851243228
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €10.04Between 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... -
Catalogue of Ethiopian Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library Edward Ullendorff 9780900177200
Booksplease Price: €6.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900177200Author Edward UllendorffFormat HardbackImprint -
Bodleian Library Souvenir Guide by Geoffrey Tyack 9781851242740
Booksplease Price: €14.82This richly illustrated guide to the historical buildings of the Bodleian Library not only makes an attractive keepsake but is also packed with fascinating architectural details about one of the... -
A Library Miscellany by Claire Cock-Starkey 9781851244720
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €10.22What can be found in the Vatican's Secret Archive? How many books did Charles Darwin's library aboard the Beagle hold? Which library is home to a colony of bats? Bursting with potted histories,...