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Offers short poems and extracts from the Classical tradition, by authors including Virgil, Homer, Catullus, Horace, Sappho and Ovid, and illustrates them with the finest Classical and classically inspired pieces from the British Museums extensive collection. This title explores of the treasures of Classical literature and art.

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Beautifully illustrated gift book on the prints and drawings of Albrecht Drer, the first truly international artist.

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Aimed at the general reader and relevant to many academic disciplines, this book explores the ways people acquired new information, organised their ideas and reached their conclusions.

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Eric Gill (18821940) is one of the twentieth centurys most controversial artists. This illustrated introduction focuses on the clarity of Gills drawn and cut line. It explores his genius as a letter cutter, wood engraver, sculptor and typographer in the light of his refined finished drawings and preparatory sketches.

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This delightful book showcases bookplates drawn from the rich collections of the British Museum, including works created by some of the most talented artists of their day, such as Albrecht Drer, Edward Burne-Jones, Aubrey Beardsley and Eric Gill.

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Ian Jenkins, a world expert on Ancient Greek sculpture, describes and explains these wonderful sculptures in a vivid and simple way for children, and puts them in the context of Ancient Greek religion, life and art.

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This book tells the story of Hoa Hakananaia: an imposing, intriguing figure of superb workmanship, it was the focal point of initiation rites, and is layered with late relief carvings that relate it to exotic birdman rites.

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Indian Love Poetry

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This exciting and beautifully produced book amounts to the definitive collection of the artists graphic works, and is the first to examine in detail Kitajs prints for almost twenty years.

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Beginning with an introduction to the life of the artist, this beautifully illustrated gift book presents a chronological selection of priceless drawings by Leonardo along with other beautiful works thought to be by his students and other members of his circle.

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London: a view from the streets brings together and interprets vivid images of the changing faces of London, featuring never-before-seen works from the rich collection of the British Museum. A broad range of pieces from artists including Canaletto, Hogarth, Cruikshank, Whistler and George Scharfe are all engagingly explored by Anna Maude, herself an expert on prints and drawings of London.

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The ultimate picture book packed with wonderful, quirky, amusing and delightful images from the British Museum. There is no text at all: the pictures, and combinations of pictures, speak for themselves

Press out and make your own Viking ship model, based on one of the most famous Viking ships ever to be found. Use the punch out pieces to build your ship and place your crew at the helm, ready for an adventure on the sea.

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Offers an introduction to masterpieces of printmaking and reveals why prints can be considered to be every bit as original as any other visual art form. This details the differences in texture, shading, line, tone and colour that an artist can achieve in engravings, etchings, lithography and screen printing.

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Includes many acquisitions and discoveries, such as Picasso's Vollard Suite and the intriguing Vale of York Viking hoard, and showcases a selection of more than 250 of the most beautiful and important objects drawn from across the Museum.

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The British Museum has one of the worlds finest collections of antiquities from medieval Europe, and this is the first fully illustrated guide to the highlights of the collection.

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A ground-breaking, beautifully illustrated book exploring the early Ming period in the years 14001450, a time when China was the largest (and one of the most prosperous) states in the world, ruled by a single family through a network of imperial and regional courts.

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Este libro de atractivo diseo presenta una seleccin especial de 250 objetos, de entre los ms bellos e importantes del Museo Britnico, cada uno de ellos acompaado de su fascinante historia y magnficamente ilustrado a todo color.

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This collection of beautiful Persian love poetry is richly illustrated with images from the British Museum s world-famous collection.

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Power; the power of the gods; the power of Greek cities; the power of the human body: all these were celebrated at the ancient Olympic Games. This title revolves around the Games of 416 BC a turning point in Greek politics when a cold war between Athens and other major cities was about to erupt into bloody fighting.

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The book provides explanations of different techniques of printmaking and illustrates both details and whole prints to show the effects that can be achieved. Woodcut, engraving and mezzotint are among the different processes explained and placed within an historical context.

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This work contains six titles from the "Reading the Past" series and provides an introduction to the systems of writing used in the Ancient World. Illustrated throughout, it covers cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, the early alphabet, linear B and related scripts, Greek inscriptions and Etruscan.

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An accessible, highly illustrated introduction to the history, society, culture and art of Britain when it was a province of the Roman Empire

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This beautifully illustrated book explores the diverse peoples of the Roman Empire: how they viewed themselves and others as Romans and examining their enduring legacy today, from the languages we speak, to the legal systems we live by, the towns and cities we live in, and even to our table manners.