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Author: Mick Manning
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2017-09-05
Total Pages: 49
ISBN-13: 0763697575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAward-winning duo Manning and Granstrm bring to life the extraordinary history of the book through the treasures of one of the greatest libraries in the world: the British Library.
Author: Peter Fryer
Publisher: London : Secker & Warburg
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe "cupboard" books in the British Museum Library.
Author: George Peper
Publisher: Assouline Publishing
Published: 2017-10-01
Total Pages: 5
ISBN-13: 1614286531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this most recent addition to Assouline’s highly covetable and lauded Ultimate Collection, George Peper, former editor in chief of Golf magazine and 2016 PGA Lifetime Achievement Award winner for Journalism, takes readers on an incomparable golf journey as he travels the world detailing the 100 most significant, historically noteworthy, and architecturally paramount courses. Describing intricate holes that have confounded the game’s best, revisiting tournaments that have made and broken champions, and elucidating the unique and truly special characteristics of each course makes Peper the perfect golf partner as he walks readers through the clubhouses, fairways, and bunkers. From greens as old and hallowed as St Andrews to courses celebrating their first anniversary such as Nova Scotia’s Cabot Cliffs, from the island mountain course of China’s Shanqin Bay to the Hamptons’ Maidstone Club, Golf: The Impossible Collection is an unequivocal sensory treat for the golf fanatic, or the perfect feast to feed the wanderlust simmering in all of us.
Author: British Library
Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books
Published: 2018-10-18
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1526607077
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHarry Potter: A History of Magic is the official book of the exhibition, a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between Bloomsbury, J.K. Rowling and the brilliant curators of the British Library. It promises to take readers on a fascinating journey through the subjects studied at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry -- from Alchemy and Potions classes through to Herbology and Care of Magical Creatures. Each chapter showcases a treasure trove of artefacts from the British Library and other collections around the world, beside exclusive manuscripts, sketches and illustrations from the Harry Potter archive. There's also a specially commissioned essay for each subject area by an expert, writer or cultural commentator, inspired by the contents of the exhibition -- absorbing, insightful and unexpected contributions from Steve Backshall, the Reverend Richard Coles, Owen Davies, Julia Eccleshare, Roger Highfield, Steve Kloves, Lucy Mangan, Anna Pavord and Tim Peake, who offer a personal perspective on their magical theme.
Author: British Library
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 124
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anne Van Arsdall
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-08-21
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 1136613889
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents for the first time an up-to-date and easy-to-read translation of a medical reference work that was used in Western Europe from the fifth century well into the Renaissance. Listing 185 medicinal plants, the uses for each, and remedies that were compounded using them, the translation will fascinate medievalist, medical historians and the layman alike.
Author: Howard M. Nixon
Publisher: Oxford [England] ; Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on the Lyell Lectures given by Howard Nixon at Oxford in 1979, this lavishly illustrated book traces the decorated binding in England from the earliest surviving example, the St Cuthbert Gospel dating from a little before the end of the seventh century, to the beginning of the Modern Movement in the late 1940s. This books emphasis is on fine binding in leather, with the styles and designs used for its decoration, and with the tools employed to effect these designs. This work is the first to trace comprehensively the development of this English tradition and bring together numerous illustrations of the superb bindings produced over the last eight centuries.
Author: Mike Ashley
Publisher: Running PressBook Pub
Published: 1999-09
Total Pages: 808
ISBN-13: 9780786706921
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovers more than 1000 rulers and two millennia of history
Author: Janet Backhouse
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIlluminated manuscripts are among the richest, most revealing relics of the Western world before the introduction of printing. They are central to our knowledge of social and cultural history from antiquity to the Renaissance. Drawing on the British Library's collection of medieval manuscripts, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to this art form, embracing both devotional and secular material.
Author: Tom Harper
Publisher:
Published: 2020-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780712353328
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the publication in 1595 of the first "atlas" by the Flemish cartographer Gerhard Mercator, the term has become a universally adopted title for books containing accurate, uniform and evenly spread maps of all or some of the world. This is an atlas with a difference. Few of the maps in this book could reasonably be called "accurate" in the modern sense and could almost certainly not be used to plan a journey. Yet this atlas can help us to travel in a way that regular atlases do not, because by looking at old maps and getting to know their stories we can be transported back to the times in which they were made. The generous, full-color illustrations of each map in this large-format book range from the Klencke Atlas (1660) to Hokusai's map of China (1840-41), from a 1682 pirate map of Guatemala to 20th-century cartographic postcards featuring maps of Australia.
