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Featuring pets, farmyard animals, big cats and wild beasts, this beautifully presented book is the perfect gift for animal lovers and all those with an interest in this quirky linguistic tradition.

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An exquisitely illustrated, luxury collectors edition of Dickenss Christmas tale.

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Featuring songbirds, aquatic birds, birds of prey and garden favourites, this beautifully presented collection will delight both bird-lovers and word-lovers in equal measure.

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A collection of 366 witty and fascinating facts, events and stories about language, for every day of the year (with one extra for leap years).

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What can be found in the Vaticans Secret Archive How many books did Charles Darwins library aboard the Beagle hold Which library is home to a colony of bats Packed with unusual facts and statistics, this is the perfect volume for library enthusiasts, bibliophiles and readers everywhere.

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Taking fifty quotations centring on flowers, herbs, fruit and vegetables, this book marries the beauty of Shakespeares lines with charming contemporary renderings of the plants he described so vividly.

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This beautifully illustrated collector's edition contains some of the best-loved fables alongside many of the lesser-known tales. These timeless stories are illustrated with 35 wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker (18951980), one of the greatest British woodcut artists of twentieth century.

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This innovative and lavishly illustrated collection of essays shows how linguistic diversity has inspired people across time and cultures to embark on adventurous journeys through the translation of texts. From papyrus fragments to Asterix cartoons, it explores how ideas have travelled via the medium of translation.

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A charming, humorous guide on nighttime manners for married couples, first published in the 1930s.

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This rich anthology brings together poetry and prose in celebration of birds, records their behaviour, flight, song and migration, across the seasons and in different habitats and our own interaction with them. Perfect for bird-lovers and anyone who has taken comfort or joy in a bird in flight.

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Garnished with sumptuous illustrations depicting the plants that tell the story of this complex and iconic drink, this enticing book delves into the botany of gin from root to branch. As this books extraordinary range of featured ingredients shows, gin is a quintessentially botanical beverage with a rich history like no other.

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Beautifully illustrated with prints, portraits, manuscripts and archival material, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of libraries and collections. Featuring stories of donors and acquisitions across four centuries, it brings the rich collections of Oxford's Bodleian Library to life.

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Dressy 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. This groundbreaking study tells the scandalous story of fashionable men and their clothes as a reflection of changing attitudes not only to style but also to gender and sexuality.

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An examination of the influence of Oxford on the writing of C.S. Lewis, bringing to light new archival discoveries including letters and an unpublished poem.

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Although plenty of Dr Buchan's advice is still sound today, much is amusing, and some is downright dangerous, this edited selection from one of the first medical self-help manuals gives a fascinating insight into popular treatments of the eighteenth century, derived both from folklore and the emerging medical science of the day.

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A fascinating and authoritative collection of essays examining the varied adaptations of and responses to Chaucers work.

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This book offers candid views of an extraordinary town, which has attracted citizens from all over Europe and the rest of the world. They have made the city what it is today - and written about it variously with affection, loyalty, disgust and amazement.

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A stunningly packaged anthology of writings and artwork by noted wood engraver Clare Leighton, including beautifully reproduced extracts and a detailed introduction to the artists life and work, reflecting Leightons lifelong fascination with the virtues of the countryside and the people who worked the land.

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This stunning gift book offers fruit and vegetables as detailed art, viewed through eighteenth-century eyes, allowing us to enjoy the sight of swan-necked gourds and horned lemons, smile at silkworms hovering over mulberries and delight at the quirkiness of strawberry spinach a delicious medley of garden produce for gardeners and art-lovers.

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This 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 coasts, from seemingly exotic seahorses and starfish, to peculiar sea-potatoes and sea lemons.

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