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Postcards from Utopia: The Art of Political Propaganda Andrew Roberts 9781851243372
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.44Presidents, Prime Ministers and Secretary Generals of totalitarian states in the twentieth century have been highly conscious of the need to present a national image suited to the new political... -
Curious Creatures on our Shores by Chris Thorogood
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.64This veritable marine treasure trove of a book is richly illustrated by the author, with fifty of the most beautiful, easily encountered, and sometimes astonishing marine organisms found on British... -
Curious History of Weights & Measures, The by Claire Cock-Starkey
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.91How 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... -
The Hungry Goat by Alan Mills
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.86The (very) hungry goat has a big appetite which gets him into all kinds of adventures. He'll eat anything, from pigs swill to frying pans and even barbed wire. As a result he grows fatter and fatter... -
Art of Advertising, The Julie Anne Lambert 9781851245383
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.28Advertisers in the nineteenth and early twentieth century pushed the boundaries of printing, manipulated language, inspired a new form of art and exploited many formats, including calendars,... -
Merton College Library: An Illustrated History Julia C. Walworth 9781851245390
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.94The 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,... -
Typographic Firsts: Adventures in Early Printing John Boardley 9781851244737
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.00How were the first fonts made? Who invented italics? When did we work out how to print in colour? Many of the standard features of printed books were designed by pioneering typographers and... -
Jane Austen: The Chawton Letters by Kathryn Sutherland
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.99In their celebration of 'little matters' - the regular round of visiting, dining out, drinking tea, of reading and walking to the shops and sending to the post - Jane Austen's letters and novels have... -
The Making of The Wind in the Willows by Peter Hunt
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.80The 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... -
Dark Room by Garry Fabian Miller
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £31.96Garry Fabian Miller's Dark Room is a photography book unlike any other. At its heart is the artist's description of a life lived making pictures between the dark and the light, a deeply personal... -
Bodleianalia: Curious Facts about Britain's Oldest University Library by Claire Cock-Starkey
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30Which is the smallest book in the Bodleian Library? Who complained when their secret pen name was revealed in the library's catalogue? How many miles of shelving are there in the Book Storage... -
Birds: An Anthology by Jaqueline Mitchell
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.39Thomas Hardy notes the thrush's 'full-hearted evensong of joy illimited', Gilbert White observes how swallows sweep through the air but swifts 'dash round in circles' and Rachel Carson watches... -
A Splendour of Succulents & Cacti by Caroline Ball
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £10.25Succulents, 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... -
A Conspiracy of Ravens: A Compendium of Collective Nouns for Birds by Bill Oddie
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.59'A murder of crows', 'a charm of goldfinches', 'an ostentation of peacocks': collective nouns for British birds have existed since at least the mid fifteenth century. They are thought to originate in... -
Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries Rebecca Abrams 9781851245024
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.34Representing four centuries of collecting and 1,000 years of Jewish history, this book brings together extraordinary Hebrew manuscripts and rare books from the Bodleian Library and Oxford colleges... -
A Sanskrit Treasury: A Compendium of Literature from the Clay Sanskrit Library Camillo A. Formigatti 9781851245314
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £44.53This beautiful collection brings together passages from the renowned stories, poems, dramas and myths of South Asian literature, including the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. Drawing on the... -
Temple of Science: The Pre-Raphaelites and Oxford University Museum of Natural History John Holmes 9781851245567
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.54Built between 1855 and 1860, Oxford University Museum of Natural History is the extraordinary result of close collaboration between artists and scientists. Inspired by John Ruskin, the architect... -
The Huns Have Got my Gramophone!: Advertisements from the Great War by Amanda-Jane Doran
RRP: £5.00Booksplease Price: £4.94Fountain-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... -
Volcanoes: Encounters through the Ages David Pyle (Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford) 9781851244591
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.30For centuries, volcanic eruptions have captured our imaginations. Whether as signposts to an underworld, beacons to ancient mariners, or as an extraordinary manifestation of the natural world,... -
The University of Oxford: A Brief History by Laurence Brockliss
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.80The University of Oxford is the third oldest university in Europe and remains one of the greatest universities in the world. How did such an ancient institution flourish through the ages? This... -
Heritage Apples by Caroline Ball
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.55What would a greengrocer say if you were to ask for half a dozen Grenadiers and a couple of Catsheads? In the course of the past century we have lost much of our rich heritage of orchard fruits, but... -
Magna Carta: Origins and Legacy Nicholas Vincent (Professor of Medieval History, University of Anglia) 9781851243631
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.42Magna Carta is the most famous document in English history. And yet its survival is purely accidental. King John, who negotiated the document with his rebellious barons, had no intention of honouring... -
What Can Cats Do? by Abner Graboff
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.86There 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... -
The Making of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Daisy Hay
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.80'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... -
Writing the Thames Christina Hardyment 9781851244508
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.92Thames aficionado Robert Gibbings once wrote that 'the quiet of an age-old river is like the slow turning of the pages of a well-loved book'. Writing the Thames tells a much-loved river's story... -
The Life of Anthony Wood in His Own Words Nicolas K. Kiessling (Professor Emeritus of the Department of English, Washington State University, Pullman, WA) 9781851243082
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.04Anthony Wood's account of his life is one of the few written by university persons in the seventeenth century. It is full of information about famous people, including Christopher Wren, John Locke,... -
Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family Stephen Hebron 9781851243396
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.29Few families enjoy such a remarkable reputation for their contribution to the literature and intellectual life of Britain as the Godwins and the Shelleys. Yet this reputation was shaped in a subtle... -
Heath Robinson's Home Front: How to Make Do and Mend in Style by W. Heath Robinson
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.59How does one play bridge in a gas mask? Or enjoy motoring without consuming petrol? Or deal with a nationwide shortage of pea-sticks? For this compact little book Heath Robinson joined forces with... -
Menswear: Vintage People on Photo Postcards by Tom Phillips
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.60This 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,... -
An Exile on Planet Earth: Articles and Reflections Brian Aldiss 9781851243730
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99Although Brian Aldiss cannot be pigeon-holed as a science fiction writer there is no doubt that he is a master of the art of conceiving other worlds. His fertile imagination has created intriguing... -
Literary Cats by Judith Robinson
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.39'Everything you ever wanted to know about cats in books. A wonderful idea, beautifully executed.' - Viv Groskop Cats have provided the inspiration for an incredible range of fiction, memoir and... -
Postcards from the Russian Revolution by Andrew Roberts
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.87The Bolshevik revolution of 1917 was one of the most important events of the 20th century. It has been studied from many angles, but never before from the visual perspective of postcards, a... -
Domestic Herbal, The: Plants for the Home in the Seventeenth Century by Margaret Willes
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.18In the seventeenth century, even the most elaborate and fashionable gardens had areas set aside for growing herbs, fruit, vegetables and flowers for domestic use, while those of more modest... -
Thinking 3D: Books, Images and Ideas from Leonardo to the Present Daryl Green 9781851245253
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.54During the Renaissance, artists and illustrators developed the representation of truthful three-dimensional forms into a highly skilled art. As reliable illustrations of three-dimensional subjects... -
North Sea Crossings: The Literary Heritage of Anglo-Dutch Relations, 1066 to 1688 Sjoerd Levelt 9781851245543
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £35.10This richly illustrated book tells the story of cultural exchange between the people of the Low Countries and England in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, and reveals how Anglo-Dutch... -
Just the Job: How Trades got their Names by Alexander Tulloch
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.80What 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 Tennis Tim Henman 9781851243181
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.87While Jeu de paume has been played in France for hundreds of years and was associated with the French and English medieval and renaissance courts, the modern game of tennis dates from 1874, when the... -
Dole Queues and Demons: British Election Posters from the Conservative Party Archive Stuart Ball (Reader in Modern History, University of Leicester) 9781851243532
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.29A unique blend of graphic design, bold art or photography and cunning psychology, election posters are an unsung art form, stretching back to the dawn of the twentieth century. Exploiting the... -
The Romance of the Middle Ages Nicholas Perkins (Fellow of St Hugh's College and Lecturer in Medieval English, University of Oxford) 9781851242955
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.29From King Arthur and the Round Table to Alexander the Great's global conquests, the stories of romance appear in some of the most beautiful books of the Middle Ages, and still resonate today. This... -
The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce 9781851245079
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.80DIPLOMACY, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country In 1881 Ambrose Bierce, journalist and former soldier for the Union army in the Civil War, began writing satirical definitions for the...