Clare Leighton's Rural Life: An Anthology by Clare Leighton
$59.99 AUD
Category: Bodleian Library
A stunningly packaged anthology of writings and artwork by noted wood engraver Clare Leighton, including beautifully reproduced extracts and a detailed introduction to the artist’s life and work, reflecting Leighton’s lifelong fascination with the virtues of the countryside and the people who worked the ...Show more
Speaking Volumes: Books with Histories by David Pearson
$79.99 AUD
Category: Bodleian Library
Every individual book has a history which can help us to understand what difference it may have made in the world. Within these pages you will find books damaged by bullets or graffiti, recovered from fire or water, or even disguised as completely different texts for protection in dangerous times. Marks ...Show more
Foiled Journal #250: Bodleian Libraries, Playing the Game! by FLAME TREE STUDIO
$24.99 AUD
Category: Bodleian Library | Series: Flame Tree Notebooks Ser.
Part of a series of exciting and luxurious Flame Tree Notebooks. Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine art, the covers are printed on foil in five colours, embossed, then foil stamped. And they're powerfully practical: a pocket at the back for receipts and scraps, two bookmarks and a s ...Show more
Chaucer Here and Now by Marion Turner (Editor)
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Category: Bodleian Library
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 and conservative Chaucer, among many other interpretatio ...Show more
Bodleian Girls Adventure Book (Foiled Blank Journal) by Flame Tree Studio (Created by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Bodleian Library | Series: Flame Tree Blank Notebooks Ser.
A FLAME TREE NOTEBOOK. Beautiful and luxurious the journals combine high-quality production with magnificent art. Perfect as a gift, and an essential personal choice for writers, notetakers, travellers, students, poets and diarists. Features a wide range of well-known and modern artists, with new artwor ...Show more
Gifts and Books by Perkins, Nicholas
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Category: Bodleian Library
We all know about giving and receiving gifts: they can be touching or puzzling, either strengthening bonds of friendship or becoming a burden. Gifts are an integral part of human societies and this volume explores how, over the centuries, books and writing describe gifts in all their complexity, but als ...Show more
Tolkein: Maker of Middle Earth by Catherine McIlwaine
$79.99 AUD
Category: Bodleian Library
The range of J. R. R. Tolkien's talents is remarkable. Not only was he an accomplished linguist and philologist, as well as a scholar of Anglo-Saxon and medieval literature and Norse folklore, but also a skillful illustrator and storyteller. Drawing on these talents, he created a universe which is for m ...Show more
Foiled Journal #207: Bodleian Libraries: Girls Adventure Book by Flame Tree Studio
$24.99 AUD
Category: Bodleian Library
Part of a series of exciting and luxurious Flame Tree Notebooks. Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine art, the covers are printed on foil in five colours, embossed, then foil stamped. And they're powerfully practical: a pocket at the back for receipts and scraps, two bookmarks and a s ...Show more
Twelfth Night: Illustrated by Eric Ravilious by William Shakespeare
$49.99 AUD
Category: Bodleian Library
A stunning facsimile of the 1932 edition of Twelfth Night illustrated by Eric Ravilious. Together with a newly commissioned introduction, this book includes a facsimile of one of Eric Ravilious’s finest illustrated works, first published by the Golden Cockerel Press in 1932 in a limited print run and no ...Show more
The Book Lovers' Anthology: A Compendium of Writing About Books, Readers and Libraries by BODLEIAN LIBRARY THE,
$19.99 AUD
Category: Bodleian Library
A blessed companion is a book--a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend."--Douglas William Jerrold "Much reading is like much eating, wholly useless without digestion."--Robert South "If I had read as much as other men, I should have been as ignorant as they." --Thomas HobbesCan books corrupt? Do ...Show more
Write Cut Rewrite: The Cutting Room Floor of Modern Literature by Dirk Hulle, Mark Nixon
$79.99 AUD
Category: Bodleian Library
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 chapter of their best-loved novel. What you might see is t ...Show more
Making Medieval Manuscripts by Christopher de Hamel
$29.99 AUD
Category: Bodleian Library
Many beautiful illuminated manuscripts survive from the Middle Ages and can be seen in libraries and museums throughout Europe. But who were the skilled craftsmen who made these exquisite books? What precisely is parchment? How were medieval manuscripts designed and executed? What were the inks and pigm ...Show more