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An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography traces the development of handwriting in the Gree...

Dibdin's Bibliomania is an anthem to the printed book, a warning to the unwary about the perils o...

An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography traces the develop­ment of handwriting in the Gre...

Richard de Bury's Philobiblon, completed in 1345, is the great medieval treatise on the love of b...

This book shows that you don't need a large kitchen, expensive ingredients and fancy equipment to...

It's 1938 and the world is changing quickly. Hitler is stirring the German nation into a xenophob...

Mentioned in despatches at Bunker Hill, brother to the Duchess of Argyll and the Countess of Cove...

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Thompson's History of English Handwriting charts the development of the distinctive, and often ve...

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William Cummings's highly regarded biography of has been revised and reset to mark the 250th anni...

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A handsome, large-format paperback edition set in elegant type with generous margins.The venerabl...

The wittiest commentary on book-collecting and the care of books ever written, Blades's Enemies o...

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This fascinating book describes the history of Oxford University's great academic library, from t...

The biography of the comic actor Thomas Doggett and the famous Coat and Badge Race which he found...

Anton de Moresco's whodunnit, set in the strange, cloistered environment of the University of Isl...

Sara Daniels lives in France where she pursues her passion for organic gardening and natural buil...

William Coxe (1748-1828) was the stepson of Handel's amanuensis, John Christopher Smith. As such,...

In ancient Israel, there was no distinction between reason and emotion, as both were seen to oper...

If you've made it to 18 (or even 80), you probably think you've reached adulthood. Unfortunately,...