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Hebrew Manuscripts
$35.00The written word holds sacred value to Jewish people and this means that books have always played a central role in the development and transmission of their religion and culture….
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Image in Print
$80.00Woodcuts are a unique resource in the study of late medieval and early modern books: they have much to tell us about how books were produced and for what purposes,…
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Life of St Edmund, King and Martyr (facsimile)
$100.00On Christmas Eve 1433, the young King Henry VI arrived at the abbey at Bury St Edmunds, one of the largest religious foundations in fifteenth-century England. He remained there until…
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Literary Cultures and the Material Book
$80.00While the technological hype that dominated the 1990s eventually collided with reality and subsided, one of the period’s most tenacious ideas has not: the conviction that the future of books…
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Lord Chamberlain Regrets
$29.50Between 1824 and 1968, British theatre was controlled by censorship. Under the dictate of the Lord Chamberlain’s Office, all new plays were read for unfavourable or corrupting content with the…
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Lost Books of Medieval China
$32.00For 2000 years the state-run libraries of imperial China systematically assembled standard collections of books from the past and present. Although the collections themselves were lost through warfare and fire,…
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Magna Carta
$12.95Magna Carta is one of the most celebrated documents in English history and one of the most popular exhibits at The British Library. But despite this fame, the reinterpretations made…
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Maps in the Atlases of the British Library
$403.00Although there are catalogues of individual maps in The British Library, up to now there has been no thorough listing of the maps in the Library’s large collection of atlases,…
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Mary Queen of Scots
$29.95Mary, Queen of Scots polarized entire nations, weathered multiple romantic scandals, and immersed herself in intrigues and subterfuge to advance her claim to the British throne—a prolonged political battle which…
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Music, Print and Culture in Early 16th Century Italy
$32.00During the early years of the sixteenth century, the reproduction of music of all kinds began to move from the copyist’s desk to the printer’s workshop. As Francis Bacon, viewing…
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New Texts and Discoveries in Early Modern English Manuscripts
$85.00New Texts and Discoveries in Early Modern English Manuscripts explores both newly discovered manuscripts and new aspects of known manuscript writings by a number of major early modern authors—including genres…
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Polished Cornerstones of the Temple
$32.00Based on the Panizzi Lectures given in the British Library in November 2004, The Polished Cornerstones of the Temple examines the impact of women’s educational projects on female reading and…