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Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine art, this luxurious week-to-view pocket diary has a foil and embossed cover with magnetic closure. Featuring on its cover a beautiful design based on…
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Mrs Beeton's classic dishes calendar features vintage pages from Mrs Beeton Household Management, originally published in 1861, from the Bodleian Library's collection. Informative text accompanies each work and the datepad…
Annaclara Cataldi Palau
This book showcases an important selection of forty manuscripts from the Bodleian’s collections of medieval and renaissance Greek manuscripts for the first time in a modern catalogue.
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Edward Lear was a British artist, illustrator, author and poet. This calendar celebrates his wonderful illustrations with 12 birds from the collections of the Bodleian Libraries. Informative text accompanies each…
Artisan Art Diaries from Flame Tree come in a range of hues, with well-known art on the embossed covers and beautifully decorated edges. With a week to view on one…
Bodleian Library
Covering such topics as unscrupulous second-hand car dealers, women drivers and ‘dashboard delights’, this charming and practical guide provides all the information needed to get maximum enjoyment out of the…
Bodleian Library the
In June 1940, Hitler ordered his generals to organize the invasion of Britain under a plan codenamed Operation Sealion, drawing up a complex set of documents, consisting of maps, aerial…
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
‘Here I am once more in this Scene of Dissipation and vice, and I begin to find already my Morals corrupted.’ Drawing together fifty quotations from Jane Austen’s letters and…
Illustrated with delightfully evocative cartoons and written in a direct, colloquial style, this gem from 1945 is by turns amusing, shocking and thought-provoking in its valiant stand against prejudice and…
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Taking its title from Howard Carter’s famous description of his first glimpse of the treasures of Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922, this book offers a timeless portrait of highlights representing the…
Packed with amusing scenarios of provocative behaviour as well as pithy advice, and illustrated with contemporary line drawings, this charming guide will win over both novices and veterans in this…
‘The Art of Good Manners’ covers such topics as table manners, pronunciation, introductions, conversation, courtship and children’s behaviour.
Major writers through the centuries have turned their minds to the subject of books, often with humour, sometimes with exasperation, always with affection. This essential anthology for bibliophiles offers a…
Collected in this anthology is a mouth-watering selection of excerpts on the subject of eating, drinking, cooking and serving food, guaranteed to whet every reader’s appetite. Featuring diverse writers and…
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Richard Gough (1735-1809), director of the Society of Antiquities for over twenty-five years, was an eighteenth-century authority on British topography and an eager proponent of Saxonist scholarship. Published in 1814…
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
This impressive catalogue showcases some of the rarest and most important Japanese and Chinese books and manuscripts in the Bodleian Library collection. It is a must-see for anyone interested in…
This collection of documents from the Clarendon State Papers provides a unique glimpse into the politics and daily life of England during the mid-seventeenth century. Edited by the esteemed Reverend…
How should men and women embark on a new relationship? Is it acceptable to flirt? What gifts are appropriate for a fiancee? How should one announce an engagement? Aimed at…
This book tells the story of the transformation of the Grade-II-listed New Bodleian into the state-of-the-art Weston Library. Detailing this amazing architectural project from demolition in August 2011 to the…
Accompanied by a range of arresting images, this book is a compilation of some of Lenin’s most famous sayings, taken from speeches, tracts, letters and recorded conversations. These proclamations offer…
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1 million American soldiers passed through Australia between 1942 and 1945 as part of America’s strategy to defeat Japan. In the pithy prose of the soldier’s pocketbook series, this guide…
Filled with timeless advice and charming historical detail, this book is the perfect gift for anyone who ever struggled to write a letter, offering encouragement and amusement alike.
These twenty-six detachable postcards feature historiated initials decorated with gold leaf from medieval and renaissance manuscripts together with hand-painted examples from early printed books. By turns exquisite, playful and unique…
In 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. This book is an irresistible…
Bodleian Libraries
The art of being a good wife is not an easy one. This little guide was written in the 1930s for the middle classes - one of the first modern…
The Bodleian Library
In 1942 the United States War Department distributed a handbook to American Servicemen advising them on the peculiarities of the ‘British, their country, and their ways’. By turns hilarious and…
This remarkable booklet, often unintentionally humorous and sometimes crudely stereotypical reads by turns like a travel guide and a crash course in psychological warfare. It is very much a document…
The art of being a good husband is not an easy one. This little guide was written in the 1930s for the middle classes - one of the first modern…
The Latin text of Magna Carta (the 1217 issue of Henry III) is reproduced, together with a modern translation and an introduction which traces the background to the making of…
Library, Bodleian
Structured around the alphabet, this book contains twenty-six detachable postcards, each featuring a rare or beautiful masterpiece. Presented in a handsome paper binding, these beautiful cards are perfect for you…
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfectionssuch as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
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