Jewish Languages and Book Culture
ISBN: HB: 9781851246328, Bodleian Library Publishing, July 2024
256 pp., 25,9x23,7 cm, 86 colour illus.
From Cairo Genizah to Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, the spread of books in Jewish vernacular languages and Hebrew characters offers us an extraordinary insight into the linguistic richness of Jewish life. For over two millennia, Jewish co...
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Adventures in Maps
ISBN: HB: 9781851245451, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2024
224 pp., 22,4x17,0 cm, 75 colour illus.
A richly illustrated collection that maps twenty historical journeys. "Adventures in Maps" features twenty awe-inspiring journeys, ranging in distances from a few miles to great treks across land, sea, air, and space. Some chart the route a traveler...
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C. S. Lewis's Oxford
ISBN: HB: 9781851245642, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2024
232 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 30 colour illus., 16 black&white illus.
The fantastical fictional land of Narnia, famously reached via a magical wardrobe, has many connections to the world in which its creator C. S. Lewis lived. The influence of Oxford can be seen not only in medieval buildings and towers but also in the...
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Funkadelic The Vibrant Artistry of the '70s
ISBN: PB: 9781851245789, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2024
192 pp., 22,8x17,6 cm, 50 colour illus.
"Funkadelic" invites readers to step back in time and witness the dynamism of the funky 70's with a handpicked selection of visual identities and branding designs inspired by the iconic aesthetic of the era, whether it be striking lettering, clashing...
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Ferdinand Bauer's Remarkable Birds
ISBN: HB: 9781851246250, Bodleian Library Publishing, May 2024
240 pp., 33,0x22,0 cm, 120 colour illus.
A richly illustrated volume, which reproduces one of the finest collections of eighteenth-century ornithological art in its entirety. In 1786, Austrian natural history artist Ferdinand Bauer traveled to Italy and the Levant. The watercolors he creat...
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Kafka Making of an Icon
ISBN: HB: 9781851246229, Bodleian Library Publishing, May 2024
192 pp., 25,9x23,7 cm, 100 colour illus.
Franz Kafka died in 1924, when he was not yet forty. During his life he published only seven small books, but he left behind three unfinished novels and a mass of stories, reflections and personal writings which were published after his death. His no...
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Twelfth Night Illustrated by Eric Ravilious
ISBN: HB: 9781851246243, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2024
96 pp., 26,7x19,4 cm, 79 colour illus.
Artist Eric Ravilious's stunning illustrative interpretation of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night". Together with a newly commissioned introduction, this book includes a facsimile of one of artist Eric Ravilious's finest illustrated works, William Shakes...
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£25.00
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Potato Book
ISBN: HB: 9781851246236, Bodleian Library Publishing, March 2024
104 pp., 17,0x11,0 cm, 10 black&white illus.
A charming guide to potatoes, covering everything from how to grow them to their origins and history. "Everybody who possibly can ought to grow potatoes". First published towards the end of the First World War, this charming little book is a love le...
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£12.99
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Write Cut Rewrite The Cutting Room Floor of Modern Literature
ISBN: HB: 9781851246182, Bodleian Library Publishing, February 2024
200 pp., 25,9x23,7 cm, 80 colour illus.
An illumination of writing's mysteries through examining the words and ideas that were edited out of renowned novels, poems, and plays. Imagine looking over your favorite author's shoulder and witnessing the moment they begin writing the opening cha...
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£40.00
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Chaucer Here and Now
ISBN: HB: 9781851246151, Bodleian Library Publishing, December 2023
224 pp., 24,4x20,7 cm, 75 colour illus.
The Geoffrey Chaucer of this book is not the Father of English Literature that you think you know. In this wide-ranging collection of essays you will find wartime Chaucer, postcolonial Chaucer, feminist Chaucer, misogynist Chaucer, radical Chaucer an...
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