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Prints for Books
$40.00The second half of the eighteenth century in France was one of the great ages of book illustration, which saw the meeting of top-quality engraving, fine printing, and high bibliophily….
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Publishing Drama in Early Modern Europe
$32.00This book, by one of the most distinguished of contemporary cultural historians, examines the relationship between plays in performance and plays in print and the often tortuous transmission of texts…
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Qur’an Manuscripts
$35.00While the significance of the written word reverberates through both Judaism and Christianity, nowhere does the physical presence of scripture matter as much as it does in the Islamic world….
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Rothschilds and their Collections of Illuminated Manuscripts
$40.00The family art collections of the Rothschilds were legendary for their extravagance and refinement. This is the first history of the Rothschilds as bibliophiles and especially as collectors of medieval…
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Russian Magic Books in the British Library
$32.00The work of W.R.S. Ralston, a Keeper of the British Museum Library in the mid- 19th century and authority on Russian magic and folklore is discussed in this latest addition…
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Scottish Libraries
$150.00Scottish Libraries chronicles an impressive collection of books and pamphlets in Latin, Greek, French, Italian, and English, providing fascinating insight into the reading, both cultural and political, available to the…
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St Albans Psalter
$50.00The St Albans Psalter, made in the 1130s, is one of the great monuments of English Romanesque painting and has survived the disasters of religious upheaval and war in pristine…
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Syon Abbey with the Libraries of the Carthusians
$160.00Syon Abbey, the only house of the Bridgettine order in England, was founded in 1415. The celebrated literary activities of the brethren were supported by a magnificent library, one of…
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The Catalogues of Henry de Kirkestede
$180.00In the middle years of the fourteenth century, the monk Henry de Kirkestede, librarian and later prior of Bury St Edmunds abbey, set about compiling a universal bibliography of writers…
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The Library of Peterborough Abbey
$120.00This volume brings together every catalogue and book-list to survive from the library of Peterborough Abbey, one of the great monastic houses of medieval England. The lists range in date…
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The New Testament 1526
$25.00Preface by David DaniellIntroduction by W. R. CooperA Note on the Text1. The Gospell of. S. Mathew2. The Gospell of. S. Marke3. The Gospell of. S. Luke4. The Gospell of….
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The Romantics and the British Landscape
$45.00The melancholic beauty of the British landscape was a central influence on the life and work of the Romantic poets. Not content to merely depict rural life or point out…
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