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

Enter the Malcontent... a misfit, an outcast, a 'strayer from the drove', one who laughs at the f...

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

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

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

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

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

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