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Art of the Scribe
Practical Projects Inspired by the Calligraphy and Illuminations of Medieval Manuscripts
Inbunden, 2025
441 kr
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Winner of the 2026 British Book Design and Production Awards - Scholarly, Academic and Reference Book categoryPages from some of the most celebrated and exquisite medieval manuscripts in the British Library provide the inspiration for twenty-one practical art and calligraphy projects. Seven classic …
Shakespeare's First Folio
(400th Anniversary Facsimile)
Inbunden, 2023
1528 kr
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Published to mark the 400th anniversary of the book's original publication, this facsimile edition faithfully reproduces one of the finest copies held in the British Library collections.The significance of the First Folio cannot be underestimated. It is the only contemporary source of eighteen of …
Literary Christmas
An Anthology
Inbunden, 2018
215 kr
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This seasonal compendium collects together poems, short stories, and prose extracts by some of the greatest poets and writers in the English language. Like Charles Dickens's ghosts of Christmas Past and Present, they are representative of times old and new--from John Donne's Elizabethan hymn over …
Cats in Medieval Manuscripts
Inbunden, 2019
171 kr
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Cats were illustrated in medieval manuscripts throughout the Middle Ages, often in exquisite detail and frequently accompanied by their natural prey, mice. Medieval cats were viewed as treasured pets, as fearsome mousers, as canny characters in fables, as associates of the Devil and as magical …
Wuthering Heights
(British Library Deluxe Facsimile Edition) A Novel in two volumes and 'Poems' by the Bronte sisters
Av Emily Bronte
2026
1815 kr
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Wuthering Heights First Edition Facsimile (1847) in a two-volume edition, with Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell (1846)Step into the wild, windswept world of the Yorkshire moors with this exquisite first edition facsimile of Wuthering Heights, faithfully reproduced from the British Library’s …
Lindisfarne Gospels
Art, History & Inspiration - The British Library Guide
Inbunden, 2022
171 kr
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The Lindisfarne Gospels is an extraordinary book and one of the British Library's greatest treasures. It was hand-written and decorated over 1,300 years ago by a single supremely gifted scribe-artist. It inspires awe both as a pinnacle of book design and for the fascinating story of how it came …
Photographs and Words
Av Michael Katakis, Kris L. Hardin
Inbunden, 2011
286 kr
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Michael Katakis has spent his life travelling with a camera and writing a journal. This is the resulting book. For the past 25 years he has collaborated with the social anthropologist Kris Hardin in work spanning continents and cultures. Their initial project was the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in …
Buddhism Illuminated
Manuscript Art in Southeast Asia
Inbunden, 2018
544 kr
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Buddhist temples in Southeast Asia are centres for the preservation of local artistic traditions. Chief among these are manuscripts, a vital source for our understanding of Buddhist ideas and practices in the region. They are also a beautiful art form, too little understood in the West.The British …
Book of Book Lists
A Bibliophile's Compendium
Av Alex Johnson
Häftad, 2017
130 kr
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This is a book of book lists. Not of the '1,001 Books You MUST Read Before You Die' variety but lists that tell stories. Lists that make you smile, make you wonder, and see titles together in entirely new ways. From Bin Laden's bookshelf to the books most frequently left in hotels, from prisoners' …
Reading Room
A Year of Literary Curiosities
Av Ian Sansom
Inbunden, 2019
230 kr
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This is a playful and provocative collection of 365 extracts sourced from the British Library's collections. Selected to challenge and inform the reader, each excerpt is accompanied by the unique shelfmark number of the source publication. Encompassing a wide range of great works in literature, …
Taking to the Air
An Illustrated History of Flight
Av Lily Ford
Inbunden, 2018
286 kr
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The possibilities of flight have long fascinated us. Each innovation captivated a broad public, from those who gathered to witness winged medieval visionaries jumping from towers, to those who tuned in to watch the moon landings.Throughout history, the visibility of airborne objects from the ground …
Dogs in Medieval Manuscripts
Inbunden, 2020
173 kr
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Throughout the Middle Ages, medieval manuscripts often featured dogs, from beautiful and loving depictions of man's best friend, to bloodthirsty illustrations of savage beasts, to more whimsical and humorous interpretations.Featuring stunning illustrations from the British Library's rich medieval …
Death in Fancy Dress
Häftad, 2019
119 kr
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This classic country house mystery, first published in 1933, contrasts the splendours and frivolities of the English upper classes with the sombre overhang of the First World War and the irresistible complications of deadly familial relationships.
Sailor Song
The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas
Inbunden, 2021
179 kr
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Passed down in the oral tradition and sung traditionally as working songs, sea shanties tell the human stories of life at sea: hard graft, battling the elements, the loss of ships or pining for a lady on shore.Its pages decorated with hand-drawn or wood-cut illustrations from celebrated artist …
Yesterday's Tomorrows
The Story of Classic British Science Fiction in 100 Books
Av Mike Ashley
Häftad, 2020
246 kr
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Join Mike Ashley on a characterful tour of the most ingenious and often forgotten books from the rich history of classic British science fiction. From the enrapturing tales of H. G. Wells to the punishing dystopian visions of 1984 and beyond, the evolution of science fiction from the 1890s to the …
Children's Literary Treasury
Magical Stories for Every Feeling
Av Anna James, Anna James
Inbunden, 2022
238 kr
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Great stories ignite a child's imagination and can fill a childhood with unforgettable characters, wondrous places and superb illustrations. They also allow young readers to explore, and to understand, their different feelings and experiences.In her second compilation for the British Library, …
Dragons, Heroes, Myths & Magic
The Medieval Art of Storytelling (Paperback Edition)
Häftad, 2023
288 kr
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Journey through magical fairy tales, chivalric adventures, mystical events and celebrated foundation myths. Trace how folk traditions and the manners of courtly love have developed through generations and across continents and how the most celebrated of ancient stories have become even more …
Serpent, Siren, Maelstrom & Myth
Sea Stories and Folktales from Around the World
Av Gerry Smyth
Inbunden, 2023
317 kr
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The sea is beautiful and alluring, but it is also dangerous and deadly. Above all, it is unknowable and untameable. Storytelling offered our ancestors a means to understand and interact with the natural world, and in time these stories coalesced into the mythological systems of the world. And the …
Story of Propaganda in 50 Images
Av David Welch
Inbunden, 2022
192 kr
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Propaganda is thousands of years old. But it came of age in the 20th century, when the development of mass media (and later multimedia communications) offered a fertile ground for its dissemination, and the century's global conflicts provided the impetus needed for its growth. Put simply, …
Animals
The Book of the British Library Exhibition
Av Cheryl Tipp (eds) Malini Roy, Cam Sharp Jones, Malini Roy m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
397 kr
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Artworks, manuscripts, printed works and wildlife sound recordings come together in this major compendium of the greatest and strangest representations of animals on record.Eighty detailed case studies highlight celebrated works, including John James Audubon’s The Birds of America, Matthew Paris’s …
Penned and Painted
The Art & Meaning of Books in Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
Inbunden, 2022
334 kr
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The idea of the book was central throughout the western European and the eastern Mediterranean world in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. From the beginning, the word for 'book'-sefer in Hebrew, biblia in Greek, and liber in Latin-was identified with sacred writings--the Holy Scriptures of Jews …
Royal Puzzle Book
300 Challenges and Teasers from Alfred the Great to Charles III
Häftad, 2023
171 kr
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Test your knowledge of kings and queens by attempting to answer some 300 questions across 25 topics, from early kingdoms to the realms of England, Scotland and Wales and the British Royal Family of the modern era.The topics range from Coronations to Sports and Pastimes – from the first English …
History of Britain in 100 Maps
Av Jeremy Black
Inbunden, 2022
452 kr
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In A History of Britain in 100 Maps Jeremy Black takes readers deep into the unparalleled collections of the British Library Map Room to tell a new story of the British Isles through acknowledged treasures and previously undiscovered and unpublished items.Presenting in detail 100 important maps …
Book Lover's European Bucket List
A Grand Tour of Literature
Inbunden, 2024
245 kr
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Following the success of The Book Lover's Bucket List, Caroline Taggart sets off on a tour of Europe to select 100 literary landmarks across the continent to describe and provide practical advice for visiting. Discover the inspirations in Austria for Mary Shelly and in Sweden for Astrid Lindgren; …
History of Railways in 100 Maps
Av Jeremy Black
Inbunden, 2024
443 kr
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Continuing the thematic strand of the successful and proven British Library ‘100 Maps’ series, this new volume traces the fully international history of railways from their beginnings in the north-west of England through to the inter-continental lines of today.Arranged chronologically, and with …
Maidens or Monsters?
Amazons and Goddesses, Queens and Temptresses in Medieval Legend
Inbunden, 2024
381 kr
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Chantry Westwell has used herprofound knowledge of the Library's unrivalled Medieval and Renaissanceilluminated manuscript collections to explore some of literature's mostenduring and multi-layered stories, together with the deep history of thebooks and chronicles in which they were first …
Beyond the Bassline
500 Years of Black British Music
Av TBD, Paul Bradshaw
Häftad, 2025
284 kr
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The story of Black British music is a five-hundred-year journey from the court of King Henry VIII to the ‘Ends’ of South London; from Africa to the Caribbean to the UK and back; from subterranean shebeens and church halls to royal command performances and sold-out stadiums; and from outsider …
Swallowed by a Whale
Writing Advice from Authors of Note
Av TBD, Huw Lewis-Jones
Häftad, 2025
149 kr
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In this specially commissioned anthology, 60 accomplished authors share secrets and insights into their writing lives: on their inspirations, methods, wild ideas and daily routines; on the pleasure and the pain in achieving their literary goals; on how they started out and how they hope to …
Fairy Tales for Grown-Ups
A Collection of Dark Stories by Modern Authors
Inbunden, 2027
239 kr
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Most people think of fairy tales as stories intended for children, but this is a relatively recent idea. For thousands of years, such tales were enjoyed by listeners young and old alike; and the earliest printed fairy tales in Europe were published for adult readers. These older versions of fairy …
