How to Be a Good Husband (Inbunden)
avBodleian Library (EDT)
ISBN: 9781851243761 - UTGIVEN: 2008-01The art of being a good husband is not an easy one. This little guide was written for the middle classes of the 1930s who were reading one of the first modern self-help books. Illustrated with contemporary line-drawings, it contains advice by turns delightfully arcane and timelessly true, for exampl[...]
Postcards from the Russian Revolution (Inbunden)
avBodleian Library (EDT)
ISBN: 9781851243860 - UTGIVEN: 2008-06The Bolshevik revolution of 1917 was one of the most important events of the 20th century. It has been studied from many angles, but never before from the visual perspective of postcards, a surprising number of which were published around the event, many in Russia but also France, England, the USA a[...]
An Illuminated Alphabet (Pocket)
avBodleian Library (EDT)
ISBN: 9781851244133 - UTGIVEN: 2015-01The Bodleian Library has among its collections some very fine examples of illuminated letters in Western manuscripts and fine art books. These twenty-six detachable postcards feature historiated initials decorated with gold leaf from medieval and renaissance manuscripts together with hand-painted e[...]
The Book Lovers' Anthology (Inbunden)
avBodleian Library (EDT)
ISBN: 9781851244188 - UTGIVEN: 2015-01'Much reading is like much eating, wholly useless without digestion.' - R. South 'If I had read as much as other men, I should have been as ignorant as they.' - T. Hobbes 'Choose an author as you choose a friend.' - W. Dillon 'A blessed companion is a book - a book that, fitly chosen, is a life-lo[...]
