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By: David Bowe

ISBN: 9781851245703
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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Rachel Owens hauntingly beautiful illustrations for Dantes 'Inferno' take a radically new approach to representing the world of Dantes famous poem. The images combine the artists deep cultural and historical understanding of 'The Divine Comedy' and its artistic legacy with her unique talent for collage and printmaking.


(Hardback)

By: Jane Jakeman

ISBN: 9781851240753
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2007
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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Ralph Ayres was head cook at New College in the 1770s. This book is a fascinating insight into the eighteenth-century kitchen, a period of great interest to social and culinary historians, and includes recipes for famous dishes such as Quaking Pudding, and Oxford Sausages.


(Hardback)

By: Kate Diston

ISBN: 9781851244843
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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This lavishly illustrated book features highlights from the collections ranging from the iconic Dodo and the giant tuna to crabs collected by Darwin during his voyage on the Beagle, David Livingstones tsetse fly specimens and Mary Annings ichthyosaur.


(Paperback)

By: the Bodleian Library

ISBN: 9781851244706
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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Accompanied by a range of arresting images, this book is a compilation of some of Lenins most famous sayings, taken from speeches, tracts, letters and recorded conversations. These proclamations offer an insight into the atmosphere of Revolutionary Russia and the mind of one of the twentieth centurys most defining political figures.


(Hardback)

By: Anne Louise Avery

ISBN: 9781851245550
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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Reynard was once the most popular and beloved character in European folklore. Expanded with new interpretations, innovative language and characterisation, this edition is an imaginative re-telling of the Reynard story and as relevant and controversial today as it was in the fifteenth century.


(Hardback)

By: Stephen A. Harris

ISBN: 9781851245611
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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Oxford has an outstanding collection of plant specimens, botanical illustrations and rare books on plant classification, collecting and plant biology. Celebrating 400 years of Oxford botany, this book profiles the botanists and collections which have helped to transform our understanding of the biology of plants over the past four centuries.


(Hardback)

By: Rita Ricketts

ISBN: 9781851244256
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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Exploring the Blackwell Collections (publishing and bookselling archives), Rita Ricketts discovered diverse characters associated with this world-famous company, between 1830 and 1940; rich fodder for any book or cultural historian.


(Hardback)

By: Sharon Ruston

ISBN: 9781851245574
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2022
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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Interweaving images of the manuscript, portraits, medical instruments and contemporary diagrams into her narrative, Sharon Ruston shows how this extraordinary tale is steeped in historical scientific and medical thought exploring the fascinating boundary between life and death.


(Hardback)

By: Melanie King

ISBN: 9781851244539
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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Informative but light-hearted social and cultural history of our obsession with drinking and bathing in spa waters. Beautifully illustrated with paintings, engravings, maps, caricatures, posters, advertisements, ephemera and modern photos from 1597 to present day, this book presents everything you need to know about taking the waters.


(Hardback)

By: John G. Sayers

ISBN: 9781851245307
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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In the golden age of ocean liners, between the late nineteenth century and the Second World War, shipping companies ensured their vessels were a home away from home. This book leads the reader through each of the stages and secrets of ocean liner travel, from booking a ticket and choosing a cabin to shore excursions and disembarking on arrival.


(Hardback, Illustrated edition)

By: Edmund Dulac

ISBN: 9781851245017
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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Four of the most well-known tales from 'The Thousand and One Nights' are reproduced in this collectors edition: 'Sindbad the Sailor', 'Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp', 'The Story of the Three Calenders' and 'The Sleeper Awakened'. Each is illustrated with exquisite watercolours by the renowned artist Edmund Dulac.


(Hardback)

By: David Pearson

ISBN: 9781851245628
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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(Paperback)

By: Michael Burden

ISBN: 9781851244560
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2016
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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This illustrated volume, researched and written by experts in the field, explores contemporary theatrical documents (playbills, set designs, musical scores) and images (paintings, prints and illustrations) in seeking to explain what counted as history and historical truth for the writers, performers and audiences of these plays.


(Hardback)

By: Jerry Brotton

ISBN: 9781851245154
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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Drawing on the Bodleian Library's outstanding map collection and covering almost a thousand years, 'Talking Maps' takes a new approach to map-making by showing how maps and stories have always been intimately entwined.


(Hardback)

By: Melanie King

ISBN: 9781851244065
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2015
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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From the tale of the goatherd whose animals became frisky on coffee berries to a duchess with a goblet of poisoned chocolate, this book, illustrated with eighteenth-century satirical cartoons and early advertisements, tells the extraordinary story of our favourite hot drinks.


(Hardback)

By: John Holmes

ISBN: 9781851245567
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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Built between 1855 and 1860, Oxford University Museum of Natural History is the extraordinary result of close collaboration between Pre-Raphaelite artists and scientists. 'Temple of Science' sets out the history of the campaign to build the museum before taking the reader on a tour of art in the museum itself.


(Hardback)

By: David Crystal

ISBN: 9781851245529
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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The vocabulary of past times is always fascinating, especially when we see how it was pilloried by the satirists of the day. In this intriguing collection, David Crystal has pored through the pages of the satirical magazine 'Punch', and reveals how many present-day feelings about words have their origins over a century ago.


(Hardback)

By: Clive Hurst

ISBN: 9781851243846
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2012
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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This book celebrates the greatest of English novelists by illustrating his abiding preoccupations. It reproduces extracts from the novels alongside a selection of the original covers, their illustrations and all the paraphernalia of nineteenth-century advertising, breathing life into the vibrant world of Dickens and his characters.


(Hardback)

By: Ambrose Bierce

ISBN: 9781851245079
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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Bierce's dictionary, first published in 1906 as 'The Cynics Word Book', brought his biting black humour to bear on spoof definitions of everyday words. Over 100 years later, Bierces redefinitions still give us pause for thought making for a timely new edition of this irreverent and provocative satire.


(Hardback)

By: Bodleian Library the

ISBN: 9781851244218
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2014
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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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 interspersed with a generous helping of cartoons, this is a perfect gift for foodies, chefs, picnickers and epicurean explorers.


(Hardback)

By: Geoffrey Batchen

ISBN: 9781851245932
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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This book features 24 of William Henry Fox Talbot's experimental prints. Offered to the reader as enigmatic physical artefacts, an accompanying essay illustrated with comparative images places these photographs in a broad historical context, revealing what relevance Talbots experiments have to contemporary concepts of the art of photography.


(Hardback, Special ed.)

By: Oscar Wilde

ISBN: 9781851245994
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2022
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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Oscar Wildes childrens stories explore timeless themes of good and evil, freedom and responsibility, love and death, beauty and self-sacrifice. This beautiful collectors edition with original watercolour illustrations and decorative motifs by Charles Robinson and an introduction by Michle Mendelssohn will delight adults and children alike.


(Hardback)

By: Alan Mills

ISBN: 9781851245031
Readership/Audience: Children
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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The (very) hungry goat has a big appetite which gets him into all kinds of adventures. Abner Graboffs timeless illustrations bring this greedy animal to life in a comic rhyming tale for younger children.


(Hardback)

By: Katrin Kogman-Appel

ISBN: 9781851246007
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
Publisher: Bodleian Library
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A beautifully illustrated book on the Kennicott Bible, a remarkable example of Medieval Jewish book art.

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