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This books chronicles the ingenious ways of dying in Shakespeare, from suicide to murder, and from workaday dagger to baroque pie recipe. Illustrated with contemporary images, it establishes the cultural, religious and social contexts for thinking about early modern death.

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Drawing on the archives of both the Bodleian and New York Public Library, this book offers a uniquely visual and insightful account of the lives and posthumous reputations of Percy Bysshe Shelley, his wife Mary Shelley, and Mary's parents, William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft.

(Hardback)

Beautifully illustrated, this work brings to life a highly treasured personal book and the story behind its creation, use, loss, and rediscovery. It also explores St Margaret's life, her learning, piety, and place in Scottish history.

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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.

(Hardback, Facsimile edition)

The first book to be printed in North America, twenty years after the arrival of the Pilgrim Fathers in Massachusetts, and now the most expensive book in the world, fetching over $14.2 million at auction. Every page of this extraordinarily influential book, including the translators' preface, is faithfully reproduced in this stunning facsimile.

(Hardback, 2nd edition)

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 rich selection of musings on the virtues of libraries, books and the pleasant smell of paper freshly pressed.

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This critical edition, the first of the entire work, seeks to encourage the study of Caxtons Ovyde, both as an example of the late-medieval mise en prose and as a significant part of Caxtons considerable oeuvre.

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From an exploration of the twelfth-century monastic origins of the texts to the creation of two-word graces in the nineteenth century and new texts for the modern age, this meticulous collection reveals how the tradition of the Latin grace has survived and evolved over the centuries and offers a rare glimpse inside the private halls of Oxbridge.

(Hardback, Facsimile edition)

A unique opportunity for rare book collectors and medieval scholars to own a stunning facsimile copy of this enchanting illuminated manuscript.

(Hardback)

These charged images from the Great War cover a wide range of products, including trench coats, motor-cycles, gramophones, cigarettes and invalid carriages, all bringing an insight into the preoccupations, aspirations and necessities of life between 1914 and 1918.

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Anthony Wood is one of the most colourful and informative chroniclers of seventeenth-century Britain. He describes the skirmishes between parliamentarian and royalist forces in the 1640s and the return of King Charles II in 1660. His account of his own life is peppered with famous people, including Christopher Wren and John Locke

(Hardback, Collector's edition)

'This is an excellent scholarly edition of one of Blake's most fascinating works, likely to become the defining text for generations to come.' Professor John Mee

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Hugh Crow was the captain of a slave-trading vessel which made one of the last legal journeys across the Atlantic with its human cargo. This is a highly engaging, rare, first-hand account written by a staunch defender of the slave trade. Crow depicts himself as an enlightened practitioner of the trade, concerned with the welfare of his negroes.

(Hardback, Facsimile edition)

This facsimile edition of William Morris' Odes of Horace is presented in a blind embossed slipcase featuring a detail from one of Burne-Jones' paintings in the book with a companion volume containing an introduction to William Morriss manuscript and an English translation of the Odes.

(Hardback)

For nearly two hundred years, Mary Shelleys original text has lain dormant in the pages of her draft manuscript. This exciting new edition makes it possible to hear Marys genuine voice for the very first time and shows the fascinating process whereby wife and husband collaborated on the first and most important work of science fiction.

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The Ormesby Psalter is perhaps the most magnificent yet enigmatic of the great Gothic psalters produced in East Anglia in the first half of the fourteenth century. This richly illustrated book casts an entirely new light on its history.

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Dating from the Ming Dynasty, the Selden Map of China reveals a country very different from popular conceptions of the time. The enthralling story revealed by this extraordinary artefact is central to an understanding of the long history of China's relationship with the sea and with the wider world.

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At the height of the debate about the slave trade and its abolition in the 1780s and 90s, each side issued pamphlets in support of its position. This valuable source-book reproduces a selection of representative pamphlets encompassing the arguments for and against. Issues discussed include humanitarianism and the Rights of Man.

(Hardback)

A stunning, full-colour facsimile, this beautiful and fascinating book explores the mystery of why and how these beguiling watercolours came to be commissioned and made.

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Drawing on the Marconi Archives in the Bodleian Library, the most extensive record of wireless communications, this book recounts the fateful events of April 1912 using complete transcripts of the messages to re-tell this legendary story as it was first heard.

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Continuing the artist-designed 'Photo Postcards from the Tom Phillips Archive' series, 'Weddings' presents 200 images from the turn of the century that captures all the stages of the ceremony.

(Hardback)

Those already familiar with or well-versed in Owen's work will find new material in this book, and those coming to Owen for the first time will enjoy a well researched, yet accessible, illustrated introduction to one of the twentieth century's greatest poets.

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Assembled and designed by Tom Phillips from his themed collection of over 50,000 photographic postcards, 'Women & Hats' explores the remarkable range in the world of millinery from outrageous Edwardian creations to the inventive austerities of the Second World War.

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A niece of Jane Austen and a novelist herself, Catherine Hubback wrote regularly to her eldest son John and his wife Mary. Her letters offer an articulate, detailed commentary on life in California by a gentlewoman managing a household and finding her place in a new world