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Index, A History of the by Dennis Duncan
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50*A TIME, New Yorker, Financial Times and History Today Book of the Year*'Hilarious' Sam Leith'I loved this book' Susie Dent''Witty and affectionate' Lynne TrussPerfect for book lovers, a delightful... -
Book Parts by Dennis Duncan
RRP: $86.76Booksplease Price: $81.14What would an anatomy of the book look like? There is the main text, of course, the file that the author proudly submits to their publisher. But around this, hemming it in on the page or enclosing it... -
The Oulipo and Modern Thought by Dennis Duncan
RRP: $154.05Booksplease Price: $118.33The impact of the Oulipo (Ouvroir de Litterature Potentielle), one of the most important groups of experimental writers of the late twentieth century, is still being felt in contemporary literature,... -
Book Parts by Dennis Duncan 9780198885443
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $35.86What would an anatomy of the book look like? There is the main text, of course, the file that the author proudly submits to their publisher. But around this, hemming it in on the page or enclosing it... -
Latin: or, the Empire of a Sign by Françoise Waquet
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $30.28Though not without its rivals, Latin stood at the apex of Western culture from the Renaissance until relatively recently. Francoise Waquet offers an enthralling, original history of the language's... -
Theory Of The Great Game: Writings from 'Le Grand Jeu' Dennis Duncan 9781900565677
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $31.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900565677Author Dennis DuncanFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Atlas PressPublisher Atlas... -
Babel: Adventures in Translation Dennis Duncan (Munby Fellow in Bibliography, University of Cambridge) 9781851245093
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $35.69This 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... -
The Book in the Cathedral: The Last Relic of Thomas Becket Christopher de Hamel 9780141994246
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.62From the bestselling author of Meetings With Remarkable Manuscripts, a captivating account of the last surviving relic of Thomas BecketThe assassination of Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral on 29... -
Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa Anthony Grafton 9780140276916
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50At the heart of the extraordinary ferment of the High Renaissance stood a distinctive, strange and beguiling figure: the magus. An unstable mix of scientist, bibliophile, engineer, fabulist and... -
Recommended!: The influencers who changed how we read Nicola Wilson 9781739104757
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $24.84Before Reese Witherspoon and Zoella's Book Clubs, there was Oprah Winfrey and Richard and Judy. And before them, there was Hugh Walpole and the Book Society. This is the story of Britain's first... -
The Mind of the Book: Pictorial Title-Pages by Alastair Fowler 9780198717669
Booksplease Price: $101.07Alastair Fowler presents a fascinating study of title-pages printed in England from the early modern period to the nineteenth century. He examines pictorial title-pages in the context of the History... -
A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History by Edward Wilson-Lee
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $35.69A Times History Book of the Year 2022 A TLS Book of the Year 2022 'Exhilarating and whip-smart' THE SUNDAY TIMES From award-winning writer Edward... -
A History of Water: Being an Account of a Murder, an Epic and Two Visions of Global History by Edward Wilson-Lee 9780008358259
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.68A Times History Book of the Year 2022 A TLS Book of the Year 2022 'Exhilarating and whip-smart' THE SUNDAY TIMES From award-winning writer Edward... -
Gobsmacked!: The British Invasion of American English Ben Yagoda 9780691262291
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $32.51A spot-on guide to how and why Americans have become so bloody keen on Britishisms-for good or illThe British love to complain that words and phrases imported from America-from French fries to... -
Henry Eliot's Book of Bookish Lists by Henry Eliot
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.00Who had birds called Death, Wigs and Spinach? How do you spell the noise of a door slamming? Whose working title was The Chronic Argonauts?Henry Eliot - author, editor and insatiable bookworm - has... -
A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders 9781509881581
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $21.31'A delightfully quirky sturdy . . . [Flanders] is a meticulour historian with a taste for the offbeat; the story of the alphabet suits her well . . . Fascinating.' Sunday TimesOnce we've learned it... -
The Library: A Fragile History by Arthur der Weduwen 9781788163439
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $22.25LONGLISTED FOR THE HISTORICAL WRITERS' ASSOCIATION NON-FICTION CROWN A SUNDAY TIMES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Timely ... a long and engrossing survey of the library' FT 'A sweeping,... -
The Untold Story of the Talking Book by Matthew Rubery 9780674545441
RRP: $68.15Booksplease Price: $57.49Histories of the book often move straight from the codex to the digital screen. Left out of that familiar account are nearly 150 years of audio recordings. Recounting the fascinating history of... -
A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes by Anthony Bale 9781324064572
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $40.21Europeans of the Middle Ages were the first to use travel guides to orient their wanderings, as they moved through a world punctuated with miraculous wonders and beguiling encounters. In this vivid... -
A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes by Anthony Bale 9781324106982
Booksplease Price: $26.25Europeans of the Middle Ages were the first to use travel guides to orient their wanderings, as they moved through a world punctuated with miraculous wonders and beguiling encounters. In this vivid... -
A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders 9781509881567
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $23.38'Marvellous . . . I read it with astonished delight . . . It is equally scholarly and entertaining.' - Jan Morris 'Quirky and compelling.' - The Times Once we've learned it as children, few of us... -
Penning Poison: A history of anonymous letters by Dr Emily Cockayne 9780198795056
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $20.79Accusatory, libellous, or just bizarre, Penning Poison unveils the history of anonymous letter-writing. 'er at number 14 is dirty Receiving an unexpected and unsigned note is a disconcerting... -
Penning Poison: A history of anonymous letters Dr Emily Cockayne 9780198795063
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.15Accusatory, libellous, or just bizarre, Penning Poison unveils the history of anonymous letter-writing. 'er at number 14 is dirty Receiving an unexpected and unsigned note is a disconcerting... -
The Language Puzzle: How We Talked Our Way Out of the Stone Age Steven Mithen 9781800811607
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.45'A tour de force' Alice Roberts 'Wonderful ... A remarkably comprehensive biography of the single most important thing we all share - language' Robin Dunbar The relationship between language,... -
A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes Anthony Bale 9780241993408
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50'Rich and wonderful . . . This is the world as you've never seen it before' Ian Mortimer'A joyful, erudite book . . . A global Middle Ages for our times' Jerry Brotton'Wisdom fills the pages of this... -
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RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $2.44'Rich and wonderful . . . This is the world as you've never seen it before' Ian Mortimer'A joyful, erudite book . . . A global Middle Ages for our times' Jerry Brotton'Wisdom fills the pages of this...