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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... -
Papers of Dame Margery Perham in Rhodes House Library by Patricia M. Pugh 9781851240173
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781851240173Author Patricia M. PughFormat PaperbackImprint Bodleian LibraryPublisher Bodleian Library -
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... -
Gifts and Books by Nicholas Perkins 9781851246106
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £31.96We all know about giving and receiving gifts: they can be touching or puzzling, either strengthening bonds of friendship or becoming a burden. Gifts are an integral part of human societies and this... -
Write Cut Rewrite: The Cutting Room Floor of Modern Literature by Dirk Van Hulle 9781851246182
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.76Imagine looking over the shoulder of your favourite author and witnessing the moment they begin writing the opening chapter of their best-loved novel. What you might see is that the author has to... -
Better Bed Manners: A Humorous 1930s Guide to Bedroom Etiquette for Husbands and Wives by Anne Balliol 9781851246199
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.80Ever 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... -
The Original Rules of Rugby by Martin Johnson 9781851243716
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.13The 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. ... -
Instructions for British Servicemen in France, 1944 by 9781851243358
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.67In 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... -
Father Christmas' ABC: A Fascimile by F. Warne & Co.
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.65Q 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: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.60Wilfred 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: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.60Published 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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.59W. 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: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.98'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: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.59The 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: £10.00Booksplease Price: £8.90'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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.85Many 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.80Pronunciation 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: £3.92'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: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.56William 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: £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...