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This rich anthology brings together poetry and prose in celebration of birds, records their behaviour, flight, song and migration, across the seasons and in different habitats - and our own interaction with them. Perfect for bird-lovers and anyone who has taken comfort or joy in a bird in flight.

This book shows how various plants were used for cooking and brewing, medicines and cosmetics, in the making and care of clothes, and finally to keep rooms fresh, fragrant and decorated during the seventeenth-century. Richly illustrated, it provides an intriguing and original focus on the domestic history of Stuart England.

Representing four centuries of collecting and 1,000 years of Jewish history, this book brings together extraordinary Hebrew manuscripts and rare books. Saved for posterity by religious scholarship, intellectual rivalry and political ambition, these collections offer a fascinating journey through Jewish intellectual and social history.

Advertisers in the nineteenth and early twentieth century pushed the boundaries of printing, manipulated language, inspired a new form of art and exploited many formats, including calendars, bookmarks and games. This collection of essays examines the extent to which these standalone advertisements - which have survived by chance and are now divorced from their original purpose - provide information not just on the sometimes bizarre products being sold, but also on class, gender, Britishness, war, fashion and shopping. Starting with the genesis of an advertisement through the creation of text, image, print and format, the authors go on to examine the changing profile of the consumer, notably the rise of the middle classes, and the way in which manufacturers and retailers identified and targeted their markets. Finally, they look at advertisements as documents that both reveal and conceal details about society, politics and local history. Copiously illustrated from the world-renowned John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera and featuring work by influential illustrators John Hassall and Dudley Hardy, this attractive book invites us to consider both the intended and unintended messages of the advertisements of the past.

This veritable marine treasure trove of a book is richly illustrated by the author, with fifty of the most beautiful, easily encountered, and sometimes astonishing marine organisms found on British coasts, from seemingly exotic seahorses and starfish, to peculiar sea-potatoes and sea lemons.

Daniel Meadows is a pioneer of contemporary British documentary practice. Drawing on the archives now held at the Bodleian Library, this book includes important work from Meadows' ground-breaking projects and offers a moving and insightful commentary on forty-five years' of life in Britain.

Through essays on some of the world's greatest artists and thinkers and in-depth analysis of over forty manuscripts and books, 'Thinking 3D' tells the story of the development of the techniques used to communicate three-dimensional forms on the two-dimensional page and contemporary media.

This beautiful collection brings together passages from the renowned stories, poems, dramas and myths of Classical Asian literature, including the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. Drawing on the translations published by the Clay Sanskrit Library, this is the perfect introduction for anyone interested in Sanskrit literature and Asian manuscript art.

From the Blenheim Orange to the Ribston Pippin, this book tells the intriguing stories behind each variety, how they acquired their names, and their merits for eating, cooking or making cider. Beautifully illustrated and including practical advice on how to choose and grow your own trees, this is the perfect book for apple-lovers and growers.

Pizza, pasta, pesto and olive oil: how did these foods - and many more Italian ingredients - become so widespread and popular? Richly illustrated, this book maps the extraordinary progress of Italian food, from the legacy of the Roman invasion to its current, ever-increasing popularity.

Bursting with quirky facts, intriguing statistics, lists and legendary curators, this is the perfect gift for all those who love to visit museums and galleries.

Spanning the Islamic world, from ninth-century Baghdad to nineteenth-century Iran, this book tells the story of the key Muslim map-makers and the art of Islamic cartography. Lavishly illustrated with stunning manuscripts, beautiful instruments and Qibla charts, this book provides a window into the worldviews of Islamic societies.

'Novel Houses' visits unforgettable dwellings in twenty legendary works of English and American fiction. A winning combination of literary criticism, geography and biography, this is an entertaining and insightful celebration of beloved novels and the extraordinary role that houses play in their continuing popularity.

Many people have a love of maps. But what lies behind the process of map-making? Here is an accessible and enlightening guide to the sometimes hidden techniques of map-making through the centuries.

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.

This innovative and lavishly illustrated collection of essays shows how linguistic diversity has inspired people across time and cultures to embark on adventurous journeys through the translation of texts. From papyrus fragments to Asterix cartoons, it explores how ideas have travelled via the medium of translation.

Following on from the publication of the first volume of these forgotten treasures, this book collects together further important and often unique Korean objects within the University of Oxford.

Dating from the Ming Dynasty, the Selden Map of China reveals a country very different from popular conceptions of the time. The enthralling story revealed by this extraordinary artefact is central to an understanding of the long history of China's relationship with the sea and with the wider world.

Lavishly illustrated with photographs taken throughout the seasons, this book not only provides a fascinating historical overview but also offers a practical guide to the Oxford Botanic Garden and its work today. Featuring a map and a historical timeline, it is guaranteed to enhance any visit, and is also a beautiful souvenir to take home.

With stunning illustrations by award-winning artist Alan Marks, the story of Oxford's Saint Frideswide - the Anglo-Saxon princess - is retold for young children as a tale of adventure, courage in the face of danger, friendship, and kindness, with a few surprises along the way.

An established reference work, this revised and expanded edition has over 200 new colour illustrations, updated bibliographies and extended international coverage of libraries and online resources. It covers inscriptions, bookplates, ink and binding stamps, mottoes and heraldry, and describes how to identify owners and track down books.

From the practical challenges of polychromatic printing or printing music staves and notes to the techniques for illustrating books with woodcuts, producing books for children and the design of the first fonts, these stories chart the invention of the printed book, the world's first means of mass communication.

Lost Maps of the Caliphs provides the first general overview of The Book of Curiosities and the unique insight it offers into medieval Islamic thought.

Bierce's dictionary, first published in 1906 as 'The Cynic's Word Book', brought his biting black humour to bear on spoof definitions of everyday words. Over 100 years later, Bierce's redefinitions still give us pause for thought- making for a timely new edition of this irreverent and provocative satire.

Did you know that marmalade, pirate, sketch and purse trace their linguistic origins back to the Athens of 500 bce? This book offers a word-by-word look at the influence of Greek on everyday words in English, telling the stories behind their etymological developments.

A succinct illustrated account of the University of Oxford's colourful and controversial 800-year history, from medieval times through the Reformation and on to the nineteenth century, in which the foundations of the modern tutorial system were laid.

Four of the most well-known tales from 'The Thousand and One Nights' are reproduced in this collector's 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.

In this book, Daisy Hay explores the novel's time and place, its people, the relics of its long afterlife and the notebooks in which it was created. This is a compelling and innovative biography of the novel for all those fascinated by its essential, brilliant chaos.

This is the fascinating story of Martin Lister's great work on shells and molluscs, 'Historiae Conchyliorum'; its illustrations (over 1,000 copperplates) by his daughters, Susanna and Anna, and the early techniques behind scientific illustration together with the often unnoticed role of women in the scientific revolution.

The (very) hungry goat has a big appetite which gets him into all kinds of adventures. Abner Graboff's timeless illustrations bring this greedy animal to life in a comic rhyming tale for younger children.