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Botany of Gin, The by Chris Thorogood
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.92From its roots in ancient Greek herbal medicine, the popular spirit we now know as gin was established by the Dutch in the sixteenth century as a juniper-infused tincture to cure fevers. It gained... -
Town: Prints and Drawings of Britain Before 1800 Bernard Nurse 9781851245178
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.34Provincial towns in Britain grew in size and importance in the eighteenth century. Ports such as Glasgow and Liverpool greatly expanded, while industrial centres such as Birmingham and Manchester... -
Petrograd, 1917: Witnesses to the Russian Revolution by John Pinfold
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.92'It's damned hard lines asking for bread and only getting a bullet!' The dramatic and chaotic events surrounding the Russian Revolution have been studied and written about extensively for the last... -
The March Wind by Inez Rice
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.41One windy day a little boy happens upon a large black hat, lying in the street. When he tries it on, he becomes a whole host of different characters he's always wanted to be: a soldier marching... -
Babel: Adventures in Translation Dennis Duncan (Munby Fellow in Bibliography, University of Cambridge) 9781851245093
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.30This innovative collection of essays shows how linguistic diversity has inspired people across time and cultures to embark on adventurous journeys through the translation of texts. It tells the story... -
Cornucopia of Fruit & Vegetables, A: Illustrations from an eighteenth-century botanical treasury by Caroline Ball
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £12.92Close-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... -
Now and Then: England 1970-2015 Daniel Meadows 9781851245338
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.42Daniel Meadows is a pioneer of contemporary British documentary practice. His photographs and audio recordings, made over forty-five years, capture the life of England's 'great ordinary'. Challenging... -
Korean Treasures: 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) 9781851242870
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.04Many important and valuable manuscripts, rare books, and artefacts related to Korea have been acquired by donations throughout the long history of the Bodleian Library and the museums of the... -
Readers: Vintage People of Photo Postcards by David Lodge
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... -
The Tradescants' Orchard: The Mystery of a Seventeenth-Century Painted Fruit Book by Barrie Junniper
Booksplease Price: £57.84In the early seventeenth century there was eager interest, among the leisured classes, in fruits from the Mediterranean and beyond, not least for the kitchen gardens and orchards of England's grand... -
Secrets in a Dead Fish: The Spying Game in the First World War by Melanie King
RRP: £5.00Booksplease Price: £4.94How did German intelligence agents in the First World War use dead fish to pass on vital information to their operatives? What did an advertisement for a dog in The Times have to do with the movement... -
Reynard the Fox by Anne Louise Avery
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.44Reynard - a subversive, dashing, anarchic, aristocratic, witty fox from the watery lowlands of medieval East Flanders - is in trouble. He has been summoned to the court of King Noble the Lion,... -
German Invasion Plans for the British Isles, 1940 by Bodleian Library the
RRP: £6.99Booksplease Price: £6.40I 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... -
Hyphens & Hashtags*: *The Stories behind the symbols on our keyboard by Claire Cock-Starkey
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.80The 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... -
Chaucer Here and Now by Marion Turner 9781851246151
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.36The Geoffrey Chaucer of this book is not the Father of English Literature that you think you know. In this wide-ranging collection of essays you will find wartime Chaucer, postcolonial Chaucer,... -
Talking about Detective Fiction P. D. James 9781851243099
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.30To judge by the worldwide success of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie's Poirot, it is not only the Anglo-Saxons who have an appetite for mystery and mayhem. Talking about the... -
A Date with Language: Fascinating Facts, Events and Stories for Every Day of the Year by David Crystal 9781851246113
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.55In this ingenious and diverse collection of 366 stories, events and facts about language, David Crystal presents a selection of insights from literary and linguistic writers, poets and global... -
Wisdom from the Ancients by Emilie Savage-Smith 9781851246144
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.91Words of wisdom and advice for leading a good life have long been part of society, handed down from one generation to the next. Plenty of these wise observations originated from the philosophers of... -
Twelfth Night: Illustrated by Eric Ravilious by William Shakespeare 9781851246243
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.27Together with a newly commissioned introduction, this book includes a facsimile of one of Eric Ravilious’s finest illustrated works, first published by the Golden Cockerel Press in 1932 in a limited... -
Marks of Genius: Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries Stephen Hebron 9781851242665
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £37.20What sets Mary Shelley's Frankenstein apart from so many other famous works of fiction? What special combination of creativity and vision made possible the drafting of Magna Carta? When describing... -
Kafka: Making of an Icon by Ritchie Robertson 9781851246229
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.54Franz Kafka died in 1924, when he was not yet forty-one. During his life he published only seven small books, but he left behind three unfinished novels and a mass of stories, reflections and... -
How to Be a Good Wife by 9781851243815
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.99The 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... -
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The Real McCoy and 149 other Eponyms by Claire Cock-Starkey 9781851244980 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £2.20The English language is rich with eponyms - words that are named after an individual - some better known than others. This book features 150 of the most interesting and enlightening specimens,... -
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: £12.75In 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...