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Magna Carta: Law, Liberty, Legacy
edited by Claire Breay and Julian Harrison
When it was granted by King John
in 1215, Magna Carta was a practical
solution to a political crisis. In the
centuries since, it has become a
potent symbol of liberty and the rule
of law. This catalogue accompanies
a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition at the
British Library commemorating the
800th anniversary of Magna Carta.
It takes us on a journey from the
charter’s medieval origins through
to what it means to people around
the world today.
Drawing on the rich historical
collections of the British Library –
including two original copies of Magna
Carta from 1215 – the catalogue brings
to life the history and contemporary
resonance of this globally important
document. It features treasured artefacts
inspired by the rich legacy of Magna
Carta, including Thomas Jefferson’s
handwritten draft of the Declaration
of Independence and an original copy
of the Bill of Rights.
Paperback £25
ISBN 978 0 7123 5763 0
Hardback £40
ISBN 978 0 7123 5764 7
272 pages, 280 x 220 mm
150 colour illustrations
Publishing March 2015
Claire Breay is Lead Curator, Medieval
and Earlier Manuscripts at the British
Library. Her publications include Magna
Carta: Manuscripts and Myths (British
Library, 2002) and a co-edited volume
of essays, The St Cuthbert Gospel
(British Library, 2015). Julian Harrison
is Curator of Pre-1600 Historical
Manuscripts at the British Library. His
publications include Beowulf: Treasures
in Focus (British Library, 2009).
The blockbuster exhibition which
this book complements will be at the
heart of a nationwide commemorative
programme throughout 2015 and is
sure to gain significant media attention
and a high public profile.
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Medieval Monsters
Damien Kempf and Maria L. Gilbert
From satyrs and sea creatures to
griffins and dragons, monsters lay
at the heart of the medieval world.
Believed to dwell in exotic, remote
areas, these inexplicable parts of
God’s creation aroused fear, curiosity
and wonder in equal measure.
Powerfully captured in the illustrations
of manuscripts, such as bestiaries,
travel books and devotional works,
they continue to delight audiences
today with their vitality and humour.
Hardback £10
ISBN 978 0 7123 5790 6
96 pages, 190 x 150 mm
100 colour illustrations
Publishing April 2015
Medieval Monsters shows how strange
creatures sparked artists’ imaginations
to remarkable heights. Half-human
hybrids of land and sea mingle with
bewitching demons, blemmyae,
cyclops and multi-headed beasts
of nightmare and comic grotesques.
Over 100 wondrous and terrifying
images offer a fascinating insight into
the medieval mind.
Damien Kempf is a medieval
historian specialising in the study
and interpretation of manuscripts.
Maria L. Gilbert is senior writer and
editor at the J. Paul Getty Museum.
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BRITISH LIBRARY CRIME CLASSICS
Murder in Piccadilly
The Sussex Downs Murder
Charles Kingston
John Bude
‘Already it looked as if the police were
up against a carefully planned and
cleverly executed murder, and, what
was more, a murder without a corpse!’
‘Scores of men and women died daily
in London, but on this day of days one
of them had died in the very midst of a
crowd and the cause of his death was
a dagger piercing his heart. Death had
become something very real.’
Two brothers, John and William Rother,
live together at Chalklands Farm in the
beautiful Sussex Downs. Their peaceful
rural life is shattered when John Rother
disappears and his abandoned car is
found. Has he been kidnapped? Or is his
disappearance more sinister – connected,
perhaps, to his growing rather too
friendly with his brother’s wife?
When Bobbie Cheldon falls in love with
a pretty young dancer at the Frozen Fang
night club in Soho, he has every hope of
an idyllic marriage. But Nancy has more
worldly ideas about her future: she is
attracted not so much to Bobbie as to the
fortune he expects to inherit.
Paperback £8.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5795 1
320 pages, 190 x 132 mm
Publishing January 2015
Charles Kingston (1884–1944) wrote
over twenty crime novels in the golden
age of British crime fiction between the
two world wars. Many of his books –
including Poison in Kensington and
The Highgate Mystery – are set in
London. All have been unavailable for
many decades, and Kingston’s work
has long been neglected by readers
of classic crime fiction.
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Bobbie’s miserly uncle Massy stands
between him and happiness: he will not
relinquish the ten thousand a year on
which Nancy’s hopes rest. When Bobbie
falls under the sway of the roguish
Nosey Ruslin, the stage is set for murder
in the heart of Piccadilly – and for
Nancy’s dreams to be realised.
When Chief Inspector Wake of
Scotland Yard enters the scene, he
uncovers a tangled web of love affairs,
a cynical Soho underworld, and a motive
for murder.
This good-natured vintage mystery novel
is now republished for the first time since
the 1930s.
Paperback £8.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5796 8
288 pages, 190 x 132 mm
Publishing April 2015
John Bude was the pseudonym of
Ernest Elmore (1901–1957), an author
of the golden age of crime fiction. Elmore
was a co-founder of the Crime Writers’
Association, and worked in the theatre
as a producer and director. His first two
books, The Cornish Coast Murder
and The Lake District Murder, were
republished as British Library Crime
Classics to great acclaim in 2014.
Superintendent Meredith is called to
investigate – and begins to suspect the
worst when human bones are discovered
on Chalklands farmland. His patient,
careful detective method begins slowly
to untangle the clues as suspicion shifts
from one character to the next.
This classic detective novel from
the 1930s is now republished for the
first time, with an introduction by
the award-winning crime writer
Martin Edwards.
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BRITISH LIBRARY CRIME CLASSICS
Capital Crimes
Resorting to Murder
London Mysteries
Holiday Mysteries
edited by Martin Edwards
edited by Martin Edwards
With its fascinating mix of people – rich
and poor, British and foreign, worthy
and suspicious – London is a city where
anything can happen. The possibilities
for criminals and for the crime writer
are endless. London has been home to
many of fiction’s finest detectives, and
the setting for mystery novels and short
stories of the highest quality.
Paperback £9.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5749 4
320 pages, 190 x 132 mm
Publishing March 2015
Martin Edwards is an award-winning
crime writer best known for his series
of detective novels set in Liverpool and
the Lake District. He is also a member
of the Murder Squad collective of crime
writers, a member of the Crime Writers’
Association Committee and Archivist of
the Detection Club.
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Capital Crimes is an eclectic collection
of London-based crime stories, blending
the familiar with the unexpected in
a way that reflects the personality of
the city. Alongside classics by Margery
Allingham, Anthony Berkeley and
Thomas Burke are excellent and unusual
stories by authors who are far less
well known. The stories give a flavour
of how writers have tackled crime in
London over the span of more than half
a century. Their contributions range
from an early serial-killer thriller set on
the London Underground and horrific
vignettes to cerebral whodunits. What
they have in common is an atmospheric
London setting, and enduring value as
entertainment.
Each story is introduced by the editor,
Martin Edwards, who sheds light on the
authors’ lives and the background
to their writing.
Holidays offer us the luxury of getting
away from it all. So, in a different way,
do detective stories. This collection of
vintage mysteries combines both those
pleasures. From a golf course at the
English seaside to a pension in Paris,
and from a Swiss mountain resort to
the cliffs of Normandy, this new
selection shows the enjoyable and
unexpected ways in which crime writers
have used summer holidays as a theme.
Paperback £9.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5748 7
320 pages, 190 x 132 mm
Publishing May 2015
Martin Edwards is an award-winning
crime writer best known for his series
of detective novels set in Liverpool and
the Lake District. He is also a member
of the Murder Squad collective of crime
writers, a member of the Crime Writers’
Association Committee and Archivist of
the Detection Club.
These fourteen stories range widely
across the golden age of British crime
fiction. Stellar names from the past
are well represented – Arthur Conan
Doyle and G. K. Chesterton, for
instance – with classic stories that
have won acclaim over the decades.
The collection also uncovers a wide
range of hidden gems: Anthony
Berkeley – whose brilliance with plot
had even Agatha Christie in raptures
– is represented by a story so
(undeservedly) obscure that even the
British Library seems not to own a copy.
The stories by Phyllis Bentley and Helen
Simpson are almost equally rare, despite
the success which both writers achieved,
while those by H. C. Bailey, Leo Bruce
and the little-known Gerald Findler have
seldom been reprinted.
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Antidote to Venom
The Hog’s Back Mystery
Freeman Wills Crofts
Freeman Wills Crofts
‘Mr Wills Crofts is deservedly a first
favourite with all who want a real
puzzle’ – Times Literary Supplement
‘As pretty a piece of work as Inspector
French has done … On the level of
Mr Crofts’ very best; which is saying
something.’ – Daily Telegraph
‘He always manages to give us
something that really keeps us guessing’
– Daily Mirror
Dr James Earle and his wife live in
comfortable seclusion near the Hog’s
Back, a ridge in the North Downs
in the beautiful Surrey countryside.
When Dr Earle disappears from his
cottage, Inspector French is called
in to investigate. At first he suspects
a simple domestic intrigue – and
begins to uncover a web of romantic
entanglements beneath the couple’s
peaceful rural life.
George Surridge, director of the
Birmington Zoo, is a man with many
worries: his marriage is collapsing;
his finances are insecure; and an
outbreak of disease threatens the
animals in his care.
Paperback £8.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5779 1
288 pages, 190 x 132 mm
Publishing April 2015
Freeman Wills Crofts (1879–1957)
was one of the pre-eminent writers in
the golden age of British crime fiction.
He was the author of more than thirty
detective novels and was greatly
acclaimed by his peers, including Agatha
Christie and Raymond Chandler.
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As Surridge’s debts mount and the
pressure on him increases, he begins
to dream of miracle solutions. But is he
cunning enough to turn his dreams into
reality – and could he commit the most
devious murder in pursuit of his goals?
This ingenious crime novel, with
its unusual ‘inverted’ structure and
sympathetic portrait of a man on the
edge, is one of the greatest works by
this highly respected author. The
elaborate means of murder devised
by Crofts’s characters is perhaps
unsurpassed in English crime fiction
for its ostentatious intricacy.
This new edition is the first in several
decades and includes an introduction
by the award-winning novelist and
crime fiction expert Martin Edwards.
Paperback £8.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5797 5
336 pages, 190 x 132 mm
Publishing April 2015
Freeman Wills Crofts (1879–1957)
was one of the pre-eminent writers in
the golden age of British crime fiction.
He was the author of more than thirty
detective novels and was greatly admired
by his peers, including Agatha Christie
and Raymond Chandler.
Published in North America by Poisoned
Pen Press
The case soon takes a more complex
turn. Other people vanish mysteriously,
one of Dr Earle’s house guests among
them. What is the explanation for the
disappearances? If the missing people
have been murdered, what can be the
motive? This fiendishly complicated
puzzle is one that only Inspector French
can solve.
Freeman Wills Crofts was a master of
the intricately and ingeniously plotted
detective novel, and The Hog’s Back
Mystery shows him at the height of his
powers. This new edition of a classic
mystery is introduced by the crime
fiction expert Martin Edwards.
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Pleasures of the Table
The Second I Saw You
A Literary Anthology
The True Love Story of Rupert Brooke and Phyllis Gardner
selected by Christina Hardyment
Lorna C. Beckett
This beautifully illustrated collection
of food writing includes delectable
scenes of cooking and feasting from
novels and stories, poems that use food
to tempt and seduce, and fine writing
by and about great cooks.
In 2000 the British Library uncovered
a cache of letters and a memoir
documenting the previously unknown
love affair between Rupert Brooke
and Phyllis Gardner. Their story of
love, conflict and loss – expressed with
spirited vibrancy against a backdrop of
impending war – makes these writings
a fascinating insight into life on the eve
of the First World War, as well as
a powerful love story.
Napoleon famously declared that
an army marches on its stomach; less
familiar is the idea that great authors
were as eager to feed their stomachs
as their imaginations. Far-ranging in
both time and place, this exploration
of literary eating and great writing
about food will amuse, surprise, and
make the mouth water.
Hardback £20
ISBN 978 0 7123 5780 7
224 pages, 246 x 170 mm
60 colour illustrations
Publishing March 2015
Christina Hardyment is the author
of many books on literature and social
history, including Writing Britain:
Wastelands to Wonderlands (British
Library, 2012) and The World of Arthur
Ransome (Frances Lincoln 2012). She
is also the editor of Pleasures of the
Garden: A Literary Anthology (British
Library, 2014).
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The anthology begins with examples of
hospitality. Next comes eating to impress
– dazzling banquets from Flaubert to
F. Scott Fitzgerald – and some great
fictional love feasts.
Many of our most vivid memories of
food in literature were laid down in
childhood, and nostalgia is to the fore
in several classic scenes included here.
Finally, a smorgasbord of recipes,
either taken from literature or beloved
by authors, will encourage culinary
experiment: from Emily Dickinson’s
gingerbread, to George Orwell’s method
of brewing tea.
Hardback £16.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5792 0
216 pages, 234 x 156 mm
20 black and white illustrations
Publishing April 2015
This book tells the couple’s story for
the first time. It gives a revealing insight
into the life and personality of Brooke
(1887–1915), still revered as a great
British war poet, and uncovers the
neglected life story of Phyllis Gardner,
which has been almost lost from history.
The story is told largely in the couple’s
own words and has been sensitively
compiled as part of a major research
project by Lorna Beckett, Chair of the
Rupert Brooke Society.
Lorna C. Beckett is a writer and artist
and Chair of the Rupert Brooke Society.
This is her first book.
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Medieval Women
How to Skin a Lion
Deirdre Jackson
A Treasury of Lost and Outmoded Advice
Claire Cock-Starkey
Our understanding of the lives and
roles of medieval women has changed
dramatically in recent years. This
compelling and richly illustrated book
explores how they were perceived by
others and how they saw themselves –
as lovers, wives, mothers, intellectuals,
women of God and members of a vibrant
and volatile society.
Hardback £20
ISBN 978 0 7123 5865 1
176 pages, 240 x 220 mm
100 colour illustrations
Publishing May 2015
Deirdre Jackson is a Research Associate
on the Cambridge Illuminations project
at the Fitzwilliam Museum. She is
the author of Marvellous to Behold:
Miracles in Medieval Manuscripts
(British Library, 2007) and Lion (2010).
Many of those fortunate enough to
receive an education were patrons of
literature, particularly secular tales of
adventure and romance. Some, such
as Marie de France and Christine de
Pizan, became writers, forging a place
for themselves in a field dominated by
men. Others made a living as scribes
and illuminators. Women were at
the forefront of a literary revolution,
creating and commissioning texts in the
major languages spoken in Europe today.
Medieval texts and images inform us
about socially constructed roles for
women, female sexuality, and codes
of behaviour, as well as how feet were
shod, breasts concealed, waists laced,
and hair fashioned. Medieval Women
draws on the rich heritage of the British
Library’s manuscript collection to reveal
the importance of women at every level
of European society, from aristocratic
patrons to tradeswomen and servants.
Have you ever wondered how to pan
for gold, train a falcon or make a love
potion? Could you restore a drowned
person, smoke your own bacon or
correctly address a Maharajah? If not,
fear not – you will find the answer in
this book.
How to Skin a Lion is a fascinating
collection of miscellaneous historical
advice, gathered from the magnificent
archives of the British Library. Drawing
on medieval manuscripts, Victorian
manuals and self-help guides of the early
twentieth century, the book uncovers
an extraordinary range of guidance
from etiquette to apiculture, medicine to
mechanics.
Hardback £10
ISBN 978 0 7123 5782 1
160 pages, 178 x 115 mm
20 black and white illustrations
Publishing May 2015
How to Skin a Lion offers an intriguing
insight into a past with no modern
conveniences, where navigating the
social scene was fraught with perils
and Google did not hold the answer
to everything.
Claire Cock-Starkey was series editor
for all seven editions of Schott’s
Almanac. Her most recent book,
The Georgian Art of Gambling, was
published by the British Library in 2013.
The result is a powerful insight
into the real lives of women in the
medieval world.
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Advice to Single Women
Manners for Schoolboys
Haydn Brown
J. Robinson
‘Think not that you have the right to
be idle because you are young.’
‘Single women who have been
industrious, and who have boldly carved
out a career for themselves, can afford
to snap their fingers at lost lovers, and
thank the fate that at length designed
them for a life of single success rather
than the possible one of married misery.’
‘Of all things, beware of sullenness,
melancholy and ill-humoured silence.’
‘Particularly avoid belching, biting
or cutting your nails, rubbing your
teeth and picking your nose and ears
in company.’
‘All women would be healthier and none
the less beautiful if they possessed firm
muscles and strong limbs.’
‘Most of those who have married have
no idea how they ever came to do such
a thing.’
Published in the last years of Queen
Victoria’s reign, this fascinating book
provides sensible, remarkably modern
guidance for Britain’s unmarried
women and girls.
Hardback £7.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5781 4
128 pages, 182 x 92 mm
Publishing March 2015
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Advice to Single Women explores
the perilous fashion for tight-lacing
corsets and the dangers of contemporary
cosmetics, in contrast to the benefits of
healthy exercise and the emerging trend
for rational dress. It weighs the merits
of matrimony and the single life, with
conclusions to surprise and cheer its
readers. And for those still seeking to
marry, the book offers a suggestion
of Bridget Jones-style guile: ‘Appear
as though you do not, but mind you
do it sweetly.’
Hardback £7.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5746 3
112 pages, 150 x 114 mm
Publishing March 2015
‘Boys will be boys’, the saying goes –
but, as this intriguing manual maintains,
there is always scope for improvement.
First published in 1829, it offers
forthright advice to young gentlemen in
all situations, from encouraging family
harmony (‘On no account quarrel with
your brothers and sisters’) to good table
manners and conduct at school. Packed
with frank and funny observations on
boys at work and play, it shows how
to navigate the twin perils of ‘sheepish
bashfulness and obtrusive boldness’,
and hold your own in company with
confidence and style.
Timeless tips on tidiness, behaviour
and self-knowledge combine with
the amusing social etiquette of two
centuries ago in this entertaining and
perceptive guide.
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Ride a Cock Horse
The Black Cat Book
and Other Nursery Rhymes
with illustrations by Mervyn Peake
The black cat is – and you will know
At least as much as that –
A pleasant, purry, furry beast,
In fact he is a – cat.
This elegantly produced collection of
classic nursery rhymes is accompanied
by richly imaginative drawings by
Mervyn Peake. First published in 1940,
and now reissued for the first time, this
is a charming children’s gift book that
will also be sought after by enthusiasts
for the work of the inimitable Peake.
This classic children’s book, first
published in 1905, combines charming
rhymes by Walter Copeland with
beautiful illustrations by Charles
Robinson. The little black cats of the
title are shown at play in many delightful
scenes: at the doctor’s; going shopping;
having a Christmas party; learning to
spell; and playing havoc at bath-time.
Hardback £7.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5786 9
32 pages, 243 x 182 mm
14 colour illustrations
Publishing February 2015
Hardback £10
ISBN 978 0 7123 5737 1
48 pages, 240 x 175 mm
48 black and white illustrations
Publishing February 2015
Mervyn Peake (1911–1968) was one
of the most important British novelists
of the late twentieth century. Although
best known for his Gormenghast trilogy,
he was also widely admired for his work
as an artist and illustrator, including
his work on Grimm’s Household Tales,
which was republished by the British
Library in 2012.
Charles Robinson (1870–1937) is best
known for his classic illustrations to
fairy tales and other children’s books,
including Robert Louis Stevenson’s
Child’s Garden of Verses and Frances
Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden.
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The St Cuthbert Gospel
Codex Sinaiticus
Studies on the Insular Manuscript of the Gospel of John
New Perspectives on the Ancient Biblical Manuscript
Edited by Claire Breay and Bernard Meehan
edited by Scot McKendrick, David Parker, Amy Myshrall and Cillian O’Hogan
The St Cuthbert Gospel (formerly
known as the Stonyhurst Gospel) is
the earliest intact European book and
a landmark in the cultural history of
western Europe. Now dated to the early
eighth century, the manuscript contains
a beautifully written copy of the Gospel
of John in Latin and is famous for the
craftsmanship and condition of its
contemporary decorated leather binding.
Found in Cuthbert’s coffin when it
was opened in Durham Cathedral in
1104, the Gospel was acquired for the
national collection in 2012 after a major
fundraising campaign.
Hardback £45
ISBN 978 0 7123 5765 4
224 pages, 244 x 172 mm
Publishing May 2015
Claire Breay is Lead Curator of
Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts at
the British Library. She is the author of
Magna Carta: Manuscripts and Myths
(2002), and the co-editor of Medieval
Cartularies of Great Britain and
Ireland (2010) and a major exhibition
catalogue, Magna Carta: Law, Liberty,
Legacy (2015). Bernard Meehan is Head
of Research Collections and Keeper of
Manuscripts at Trinity College, Dublin.
He is the author of The Book of Kells
(2012) and numerous articles on insular
manuscripts and culture.
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This new collection of essays is the most
substantial study of the book since the
1960s. It includes detailed commentary
on Cuthbert in his historical context;
the codicology, text, script and medieval
history of the manuscript; the structure
and decoration of the binding; the other
relics found in Cuthbert’s coffin; and the
post-medieval ownership of the book.
This book significantly revises the
existing scholarship on one of the British
Library’s most recent acquisitions which
is now one of its greatest treasures.
Codex Sinaiticus is one of the most
important books in the world.
Handwritten well over 1600 years ago,
the manuscript contains the Christian
Bible in Greek, including the oldest
complete copy of the New Testament.
Its heavily corrected text is of
outstanding importance for the history
of the Bible and the manuscript – the
oldest substantial book to survive
antiquity – is of supreme importance
for the history of the book.
Hardback £50
ISBN 978 0 7123 5860 6
352 pages, 244 x 172 mm
Publishing June 2015
Scot McKendrick is Head of History
and Classics at the British Library. David
Parker is Edward Cadbury Professor of
Theology and Director of the Institute for
Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing
at the University of Birmingham. Amy
Myshrall is a researcher at the Institute for
Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing
at the University of Birmingham. Cillian
O’Hogan is Curator of Classical and
Byzantine Studies at the British Library.
Published in North America
by Hendrickson
This collection of scholarly essays
constitutes an important reappraisal
of the history of the manuscript. The
evidence relating to the production of
the manuscript is assessed by several
contributors, who pay careful attention
to the thousands of corrections which
were made to the text by several hands.
The significance of Codex Sinaiticus for
our understanding of the New Testament
text is analysed in detail, with a number
of articles showing how the manuscript
helps us to understand the formation of
the Christian canon in antiquity. Newly
discovered archival material sheds light
on the complex sequence of events which
led to the Codex being dispersed across
four libraries.
This volume provides an excellent starting
point for those new to the world of late
antique Christianity or Biblical textual
criticism, a worthy resource for scholars
already working in the field, and an
illuminating guide for the general reader.
New Titles
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The Publication of Plays in
Eighteenth-Century England
The Magic of Birds
London
Celia Fisher
A Literary Anthology
Birds have captured people’s
imagination since earliest times, with
their fascinating plumage, behaviour
and power of flight. In this beautifully
and unusually illustrated book, Celia
Fisher traces the remarkable breadth
of ways in which artists, writers
and storytellers have depicted the
enduring magic of birds.
Here is London brought to life by
many of the greatest writers in the
English language. This anthology
features a wide-ranging collection
of poems and scenes from novels
that stretch from the fifteenth
century to the present day.
Playwrights, Publishers and the Market
Judith Milhous and Robert D. Hume
Hardback £50
ISBN 978 0 7123 5773 9
416 pages, 244 x 172 mm
Publishing May 2015
Judith Milhous is Lucille Lortel
Distinguished Professor Emerita in
Theatre at the Graduate Center of the
City University of New York. Robert D.
Hume is Evan Pugh Professor of English
Literature at Penn State University.
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A great deal of bibliographical and
historical scholarship has been devoted
to English drama up to 1660, but
late seventeenth-century plays have
received little such attention and
eighteenth-century plays hardly any
at all. This ground-breaking study
by two internationally renowned
scholars in theatre history addresses
such fundamental questions as: who
published plays? What was the cost of
publication, the risk, and the potential
profit? What did single plays cost, and
what did play collections cost? What
was the buying power of those prices,
and who could afford to make such
purchases? How much market existed
for used copies and at what prices? What
did playwrights earn from publication,
and how important was it to their
income? What was the commercial logic
of various sorts of collections? What was
the function of illustrations in published
plays, and what can we learn from such
illustrations?
This study, a significantly expanded
version of the Panizzi Lectures delivered
by the authors at the British Library in
2011, will become a cornerstone work in
the field and lays the groundwork for a
generation of further scholarship.
Hardback £20
ISBN 978 0 7123 5742 5
160 pages, 240 x 220 mm
130 colour illustrations
Published September 2014
Hardback £20
ISBN 978 0 7123 5740 1
224 pages, 246 x 170 mm
30 colour and 30 black and white illustrations
Published October 2014
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Terror and Wonder:
The Gothic Imagination
The Face in the Glass
Comics Unmasked
And Other Gothic Tales
Art and Anarchy in the UK
The Philosophy of
Beards
Edited by Dale Townshend
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Paul Gravett and John Harris Dunning
Thomas S. Gowing
The Gothic imagination – that dark
predilection for horrors and terrors,
spectres and sprites – occupies a
prominent place in contemporary
Western culture. Terror and Wonder
traces the numerous meanings and
manifestations of the Gothic across
time, tracking its shifts and mutations
from its eighteenth-century origins,
through the Victorian period, and
into the present day.
This collection of macabre tales
highlights the deliciously dark
imagination of Mary Elizabeth
Braddon, an author increasingly
seen as one of the finest and most
entertaining of her generation. By
turns curious, sinister, haunting
and terrifying, each tale explores
in dazzling fashion the dark
shadows beyond the rational world.
Far from being merely the stuff
of childhood and nostalgia, comics
are an inherently anarchic medium,
fraught with political and social
jeopardy. Comics Unmasked reveals
mainstream and underground comics
which address politics, heroes, gender,
violence, sexuality and altered states.
This eccentric Victorian book
argues a strong case for the universal
wearing of a beard – that essential
symbol of manly distinction since
ancient times. Thomas S. Gowing
contrasts the vigour and daring of
bearded men through history with
the undeniable effeminacy of the
clean-shaven.
Paperback £25
ISBN 978 0 7123 5791 3
Hardback £35
ISBN 978 0 7123 5755 5
224 pages, 280 x 220 mm
120 colour illustrations
Published October 2014
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Paperback £8.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5751 7
256 pages, 190 x 132 mm
Published October 2014
Paperback £25
ISBN 978 0 7123 5735 7
192 pages, 288 x 245 mm
150 colour illustrations
Published May 2014
Hardback £7.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5766 1
80 pages, 200 x 130 mm
10 black and white illustrations
Published October 2014
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A History of the 20th
Century in 100 Maps
A History of the Book in
100 Books
Tim Bryars and Tom Harper
Roderick Cave and Sara Ayad
The 20th century was a golden
age of map-making, and maps
permeated almost every aspect
of daily life. It was a century
overshadowed by war which was
also marked by tremendous social
and technological change to which
millions of contemporary maps
bear witness. Most were created
for a specific and immediate
purpose, and have never been
reprinted or discussed. Until now.
The ebook age has taken ‘the book’
to a turning point. But in fact, casting
off old technologies and taking on
new ones has been part of the history
of the book since Egyptian times.
At this crucial time for the future of
books as we know them today, this
volume tells the story of the book
from the very beginning.
A visual celebration of the mystery
and magnificence of cats, from
charming kittens and affectionate
families to bold hunters and
battle-scarred toms. More than
100 illustrations depict cats at play,
in riotous roof-top gatherings, poised
in cool, fashion-plate elegance and
enjoying convivial tea parties.
Hardback £25
ISBN 978 0 7123 5756 2
284 pages, 254 x 203 mm
250 colour illustrations
Published October 2014
Paperback £10
ISBN 978 0 7123 5750 0
144 pages, 190 x 150 mm
130 colour illustrations
Published October 2014
Hardback £25
ISBN 978 0 7123 5856 9
240 pages, 280 x 220 mm
110 colour illustrations
Published September 2014
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In the Company of Cats
Illustration through the Ages
The Cat And the Moon
and Other Cat Poems
Cats have fascinated, amused,
infuriated and inspired writers
for thousands of years. This
magnificently varied anthology
features fluffy kittens and
belligerent toms, moggies snoozing
by the fire and feral tormentors of
mice and birds. Drawing on poems
from more than five centuries, The
Cat and the Moon celebrates the
diverse moods and qualities of these
most intriguing creatures.
Hardback £7.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5747 0
80 pages, 150 x 114 mm
Published September 2014
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BRITISH LIBRARY CRIME CLASSICS
BRITISH LIBRARY SPY CLASSICS
A Scream in Soho
Mystery in White
John G. Brandon
A Christmas Crime Story
The Great
Impersonation
J. Jefferson Farjeon
E. Phillips Oppenheim
On Christmas Eve, heavy snowfall
brings a train to a halt near the
village of Hemmersby. Several
passengers take shelter in a deserted
country house, where the fire has
been lit and the table laid for tea
– but no one is at home. Trapped
together for Christmas, the passengers
are seeking to unravel the secrets of
the empty house when a murderer
strikes in their midst.
1913. As international tension mounts
and the great powers of Europe move
closer to war, Dominey finds himself
entangled in a story of suspicion and
intrigue. He must try to evade his
insane and murderous wife as well as
escape the attentions of the passionate
Princess Eiderstrom – and will
eventually uncover the secret of the
ghost that haunts his ancestral home.
Soho during the blackouts of the
Second World War. When a piercing
scream rends the air and a bloodied
knife is found, Detective Inspector
MacCarthy is soon on the scene.
This evocative and suspenseful
London novel from the golden
age of British crime fiction is now
republished for the first time since
the 1950s
Paperback £8.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5745 6
256 pages, 190 x 132 mm
Published September 2014
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Paperback £8.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5770 8
256 pages, 190 x 132 mm
Published November 2014
Paperback £8.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5721 0
288 pages, 190 x 132 mm
Published August 2014
The Spy Paramount
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Rome, 1934. Martin Fawley leaves
the American secret service and
is recruited by General Berati, the
most feared man in fascist Italy, as
a spy. Fawley’s mission takes him
undercover to Monaco. Suave and
worldly, Fawley is quite at home in
the casinos and golf courses of Monte
Carlo – but he is soon entangled in
a game with higher stakes. As the
nations of Europe vie for power,
Fawley reveals the secret weapon that
will determine the outcome of the
looming war.
Paperback £8.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5767 8
288 pages, 190 x 132 mm
Published August 2014
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How to Be Pretty
though Plain
The Finishing Touch
A Book of Nonsense
Cosmetics through the Ages
Edward Lear
Mrs Humphry
Julian Walker
Wartime Nursery
Rhymes
A First World War Collection
Nina Macdonald
First published in 1899, this
forthright guide gives fascinating
insights into the beauty strategies of
the Edwardian age. Banishing fashion
faux-pas with its breezy common
sense, How to Be Pretty celebrates
our enduring preoccupation with
looking one’s best.
Hardback £7.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5717 3
128 pages, 182 x 92 mm
Published October 2014
30
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This fascinating new book explores
some of the materials and methods
that women – and men – have used
in the past to enhance or hold on to
their looks. Julian Walker opens up
a curious, sometimes uncomfortable
history of the human need to look
beautiful. He reveals dozens of the
(occasionally desperate) ways in
which people have tried to make
themselves more attractive.
Edward Lear’s Book of Nonsense,
originally published in 1845, is an
exuberant collection of nonsense
limericks, illustrated throughout
with Lear’s usual sharp eye for
the fantastic, the bizarre and the
grotesque. This new full-colour
edition reproduces Lear’s glorious
gallery of Victorian eccentrics and
reveals Lear’s imagination at its
most fertile.
This collection of patriotic nursery
rhymes, first published in 1918, was
designed to instruct British children
about wartime conditions: the
necessity of rationing, the bravery
of wounded soldiers and the villainy
of the Kaiser. These amusing, satirical
twists on classic nursery rhymes offer
a unique insight into a little-known
aspect of the War: the experience of
children on the Home Front.
Hardback £10
ISBN 978 0 7123 5752 4
160 pages, 178 x 115 mm
30 black and white illustrations
Published September 2014
Hardback £10
ISBN 978 0 7123 5731 9
112 pages, 215 x 170 mm
100 colour illustrations
Published October 2014
Hardback £7.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5736 4
80 pages, 150 x 114 mm
20 black and white illustrations
Published August 2014
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Comic, Curious and
Quirky News Stories
from Centuries Past
The Ladybird Story
Peake in China
Censors at Work
Children’s Books for Everyone
Memoirs of Ernest
Cromwell Peake
How States Shaped Literature
Lorraine Johnson and Brian Alderson
with an introduction by Hilary Spurling
Rona Levin
This book is an eclectic collection
of humorous, bizarre and quirky
newspaper stories from the
eighteenth to twentieth centuries.
It reveals life’s (often avoidable) daily
perils, as well as showing how scandal
and gossip highlight the social mores
of the times.
Hardback £10
ISBN 978 0 7123 5772 2
160 pages, 198 x 130 mm
30 black and white illustrations
Published October 2014
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Robert Darnton
Known to, and possibly owned
by, almost every family in the land,
Ladybird books were bought with
pocket-money, given away as
birthday gifts or school prizes, or
met with in classrooms, not least,
along with Peter and Jane, by children
engaged in the heavy task of learning
to read. In this book Lorraine
Johnson and Brian Alderson follow
the Ladybird’s flight over a hundred
years from its erratic beginning
to times when the Loughborough
company arrived at what proved to
be a world-wide success.
Dr Ernest Cromwell Peake was
the first medical missionary to
arrive in the region of Hankow,
inland China, where he spent the
early years of the twentieth century.
His memoirs of the period – published
here for the first time – make available
a new eyewitness account of this
crucial, revolutionary period in
Chinese history. An introduction
by the renowned biographer Hilary
Spurling explores the connection
between Dr Peake’s son, Mervyn’s,
childhood years in China and his
Gormenghast novels.
Hardback £25
ISBN 978 0 7123 5728 9
224 pages, 244 x 172 mm
160 colour illustrations
Published September 2014
Hardback £25
ISBN 978 0 7123 5741 8
224 pages, 229 x 155 mm
40 black-and-white illustrations
Published September 2014
A fresh perspective on censorship
emerges in this elegant history by
a superb conjuror of the past. With
his uncanny ability to spark life in
the past, Robert Darnton re-creates
three historical worlds in which
censorship shaped literary expression.
Censorship emerges not as a simple
repression that is everywhere the
same, but as a melding of power
and culture grounded in history.
Hardback £25
ISBN 978 0 7123 5761 6
304 pages, 234 x 156 mm
12 black and white illustrations
Published September 2014
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Illuminators and Patrons Laurie Lee
in Fourteenth-Century
The Spoken Word
England
Backlist Highlights
The Psalter & Hours
of Humphrey de Bohun
and the Manuscripts of
the Bohun Family
Lucy Freeman Sandler
New cover
Paperback £8.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5759 3
A richly illustrated study of one of
the treasures of the British Library,
a psalter and book of hours made
for Humphrey de Bohun, the vastly
wealthy earl of Hereford, Essex and
Northampton who employed two
or more illuminators to work on the
manuscript (now British Library MS
Egerton 3277) in his own castle at
Pleshey, Essex.
Hardback (+DVD) £60
ISBN 978 0 7123 5757 9
352 pages, 244 x 172 mm
250 colour illustrations
Published November 2014
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The latest audio CD in the highly
acclaimed ‘Spoken Word’ series
features recording of the much-loved
author in interview and reading his
own poetry and prose. The recordings
are sourced from BBC broadcasts
and include excerpts from Cider with
Rosie, reflections on Lee’s life and
work, and a live recording of Lee
reading some of his poems in front
of an enthusiastic audience.
CD with booklet £10 inc VAT
ISBN 978 0 7123 5131 7
Running time: 73 minutes
Published June 2014
New jacket
Hardback £12.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5863 7
Now in paperback
Paperback £14.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5771 5
New edition
Hardback £14.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5600 8
Selected Backlist
35
Arts
The Golden Age of
Flowers
Celia Fisher
Beautiful Bookbindings
Hardback £30
ISBN 978 0 7123 5823 1
The Golden Age of Flowers
Paperback £14.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5895 8
The Medieval Flower Book
Paperback £14.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5894 1
Photographs and Words
Hardback £25
ISBN 978 0 7123 0914 1
Manuscript and Print
in London c.1475–1530
Hardback £45
ISBN 978 0 7123 5881 1
Publishing the Fine and
Applied Arts
Hardback £32
ISBN 978 0 7123 5847 7
William Caxton and Early
Printing in England
Hardback £30
ISBN 978 0 7123 5088 4
Alice’s Adventures under
Ground
Hardback £14.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5600 8
The Cat and the Birds
and Other Fables
Hardback £7.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5722 7
The Cat that Walked by
Himself and other stories
Hardback £7.95
ISBN 978 0 7123 5809 5
Grimm’s
Household Tales
Hardback £14.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5858 3
The Hunting of the Snark
Hardback £12.95
ISBN 978 0 7123 5813 2
Kings and Queens
Hardback £10
ISBN 978 0 7123 5850 7
London Town
Hardback £9.95
ISBN 978 0 7123 5814 9
Nonsense Botany and
Nonsense Alphabets
Hardback £14.95
ISBN 978 0 7123 5044 0
Nonsense Songs
and Stories
Hardback £14.95
ISBN 978 0 7123 5043 3
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
Hardback £7.95
ISBN 978 0 7123 5876 7
Intelligence Revealed
Hardback £65
ISBN 978 0 7123 5843 9
Book History
The Story of Graphic Design
Hardback £25
ISBN 978 0 7123 0696 6
1000 Years of
English Literature
Paperback £12.95
ISBN 978 0 7123 5873 6
The Lindisfarne Gospels and
the Early Medieval World
Hardback £25
ISBN 978 0 7123 5801 9
Children’s Literature
The Album Amicorum and
the London of Shakespeare’s
Time
Hardback £45
ISBN 978 0 7123 5838 5
The Book and the
Transformation of Britain
c.550–1050
Hardback £45
ISBN 978 0 7123 5828 6
Tom Stoppard
Hardback and interactive
CD £50
ISBN 978 0 7123 4966 6
The Cat
that Walked
by Himself
The Book Trade in Early
Modern England
Hardback £35
ISBN 978 0 7123 5711 1
Volume 11
Hardback £90
ISBN 978 0 7123 4837 9
Volume 12
Hardback £75
ISBN 978 0 7123 4979 6
Volume 13
Hardback £175
ISBN 978 0 7123 4987 1
Volume 14
Hardback £75
ISBN 978 0 7123 4976 5
Volume 15
Hardback £125
ISBN 978 0 7123 5706 7
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Books as History
Paperback £16.95
ISBN 978 0 7123 5888 0
The Culture of Correction in
Renaissance Europe
Hardback £30
ISBN 978 0 7123 5845 3
From Compositors
to Collectors
Hardback £45
ISBN 978 0 7123 5872 9
From the Penny Dreadful
to the Ha’penny Dreadfuller
Hardback £50
ISBN 978 0 7123 0954 7
Selected Backlist
Corpus of British Medieval
Library Catalogues
Volume 8
Hardback £30
ISBN: 978 0 7123 4710 5
Volume 10
Hardback £145
ISBN 978 0 7123 4773 0
A History of
Chromolithography
Hardback £75
ISBN 978 0 7123 5710 4
and other stories
Rudyard Kipling
Selected Backlist
37
Crime Classics
History
The Notting Hill Mystery
Paperback £8.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5859 0
Revelations of a
Lady Detective
Paperback £8.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5896 5
Mr Bazalgette’s Agent
Paperback £6.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5702 9
The Female Detective
Paperback £8.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5759 3
The Old Man’s Guide to
Health and Longer Life
Hardback £6.95
ISBN 978 0 7123 5898 9
The Woman Owner-Driver
The Complete Guide for
Lady Motorists
Hardback £7.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5730 2
You Have been Warned!
Hardback £10
ISBN 978 0 7123 5899 6
The Art and History
of Globes
Hardback £30
ISBN 978 0 7123 5868 2
The Cornish Coast Murder
Paperback £8.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5715 9
The Lake District Murder
Paperback £8.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5716 6
Murder Underground
Paperback £8.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5725 8
Death on the Cherwell
Paperback £8.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5726 5
The Book of the
British Library
Hardback £25.00
ISBN 978 0 7123 5837 8
Bookscape: Geographies
of Printing and Publishing in
London before 1800
Hardback £50
ISBN 978 0 7123 5733 3
Cruel Deeds and
Dreadful Calamities
Hardback £20
ISBN 978 0 7123 5811 8
Evolving English
Paperback £16.95
ISBN 978 0 7123 5098 3
Gift/Humour
Georgians Revealed
JaCKie Storer
Life, Style and the Making of Modern Britain
Hidden StorieS of tHe
firSt World War
The Santa Klaus Murder
Paperback £8.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5712 8
Beauty, what it is
and how to Retain it
Hardback £7.95
ISBN 978 0 7123 5885 9
Booklover’s Book of Jokes,
Quips and Quotes
Hardback £7.95
ISBN 978 0 7123 5842 2
Deportment for Dukes and
Tips for Toffs
Hardback £7.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5703 6
The Georgian Art of
Gambling
Hardback £10
ISBN 978 0 7123 5739 5
The Gentleman’s Art of
Dressing with Economy
Hardback £7.95
ISBN 978 0 7123 5886 6
Lady Cycling: What to Wear
and How to Ride
Hardback £7.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5727 2
The Look of Love
Romantic Illustration
Through the Ages
Paperback £10
ISBN 978 0 7123 5719 7
Manners for Millionaires
Hardback £7.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5724 1
Lingo of No Man’s Land
A World War I Slang
Dictionary
Hardback £10
ISBN 978 0 7123 5734 0
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Selected Backlist
Georgians Revealed: Life,
Style and the Making of
Modern Britain
Paperback £20
ISBN 978 0 7123 5714 2
Hardback £30
ISBN 978 0 7123 5713 5
The Lives of the Mughal
Emperors
Paperback £10
ISBN 978 0 7123 5887 3
Hidden Stories of the First
World War
Hardback £17.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5738 8
London: A History in Maps
Hardback £30
ISBN 978 0 7123 5879 8
How to Cure the
Plague and Other
Curious Remedies
Hardback £10
ISBN 978 0 7123 5701 2
London: A Life in Maps
Paperback £15.95
ISBN 978 0 7123 4919 2
Selected Backlist
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The
Prayse of Writing’
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Alphabet
Book
E A R LY M O D E R N
MANUSCRIPT STUDIES
edited by
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A FA C S I M I L E
Magna Carta
Paperback £7.95
ISBN 978 0 7123 5833 0
Magnificent Maps
Hardback £20
ISBN 978 0 7123 5092 1
Maps of Paradise
Hardback £20
ISBN 978 0 7123 5709 8
Medieval Cats
Hardback £10
ISBN 978 0 7123 5818 7
Discovering, Identifying
and Editing Early
Modern Manuscripts
Hardback £50
ISBN 978 0 7123 5893 4
In the Prayse of Writing
Hardback £50
ISBN 978 0 7123 5857 6
The Land of
Opportunity
Hardback £40
ISBN 978 0 7123 5848 4
The Macclesfield
Alphabet Book.
Hardback £30
ISBN 978 0 7123 5804 0
The
Taymouth
Hours
Kathryn A. Smith
Medieval Dogs
Hardback £10
ISBN 978 0 7123 5892 7
Sea Monsters on Medieval
and Renaissance Maps
Paperback £14.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5771 5
From Books to Bezoars
Hardback £45
ISBN 978 0 7123 5880 4
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Medieval Maps of the
Holy Land
Hardback £50
ISBN 978 0 7123 5824 8
Propaganda: Power and
Persuasion
Paperback £19.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5700 5
Raffles Ark Redrawn
Paperback £20
ISBN 978 0 7123 5084 6
The World at their Fingertips
Hardback £45
ISBN 978 0 7123 5877 4
A Guide to Western
Historical Scripts from
Antiquity to 1600
Paperback £12.95
ISBN 978 0 7123 0307 1
Electronic Beowulf
Interactive DVD with user
guide £25 inc. VAT
ISBN 978 0 7123 5101 0
Tudor Manuscripts
1485–1603
Hardback £50
ISBN 978 0 7123 5063 1
Selected Backlist
Manuscript Miscellanies
1450–1700
Hardback £50
ISBN 978 0 7123 5827 9
English Manuscripts
Before 1400
Hardback £50
ISBN 978 0 7123 5883 5
Painted Labyrinth
Paperback £5.95
ISBN 978 0 7123 4811 9 Royal Manuscripts
Hardback £40
ISBN 978 0 7123 5816 3
The Taymouth Hours
Hardback £50
ISBN 978 0 7123 5869 9
1000 Years of Royal
Manuscripts
Hardback £45
ISBN 978 0 7123 5708 1
The Angel of Charleston
Hardback £16.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5867 5
The Charleston Bulletin
Supplements
Hardback £12.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5891 0
City Lights and
Streets Ahead
Paperback £12.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 0964 6
Dangerous Work
Hardback £25
ISBN 978 0 7123 5864 4
Literature
Dogs in Books
Paperback £7.95
ISBN 978 0 7123 5852 1
How to Live to Be 22
Hardback £12.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 0969 1
Illustrating Shakespeare
Hardback £20
ISBN 978 0 7123 5889 7
A Literary Christmas
Hardback £12.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 0968 4
2 CDs with booklet
£12.99 inc VAT
ISBN 978 0 7123 5130 0
Selected Backlist
41
Audio – Arts and Literature
Love Letters
Hardback £12.95
ISBN 978 0 7123 5825 5
The Narrative of John Smith
Hardback £9.95
ISBN 978 0 7123 5841 5
Pleasures of the Garden: A
Literary Anthology
Hardback £20
ISBN 978 0 7123 5720 3
Poet and Critic
Hardback £25
ISBN 978 0 7123 5862 0
Writing Britain
Hardback £25
ISBN 978 0 7123 5874 3
Paperback £17.95
ISBN 978 0 7123 5875 0
W.T. Stead Newspaper
Revolutionary
Hardback £35
ISBN 978 0 7123 5866 8
Puss in Boots
Paperback £7.95
ISBN 978 0 7123 5882 8
Religions
The New Testament 1526
Hardback £20
ISBN 978 0 7123 4664 1
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Out of this World
Paperback £16.95
ISBN 978 0 7123 5835 4
Selected Backlist
Codex Sinaiticus
Hardback £20
ISBN 978 0 7123 5803 3
Peake’s Progress
Hardback £25
ISBN 978 0 7123 5834 7
Shakespeare’s First Folio
Facsimiles of the Plays
Hardback £14.95 each
Love’s Labour’s Lost
ISBN 978 0 7123 0956 1
The Merchant of Venice
ISBN 978 0 7123 0951 6
Othello
ISBN 978 0 7123 0946 2
Codex Sinaiticus: A Full
Facsimile.
Hardback £495
ISBN 978 0 7123 4998 7
American Writers
Three CDs £20 inc. VAT
ISBN 978 0 7123 0544 0
British Writers
Three CDs £20 inc. VAT
ISBN 978 0 7123 0541 9
British Poets
Three CDs £20 inc. VAT
ISBN 978 0 7123 5105 8
Irish Poets and Writers
Three CDs £20.00 inc. VAT
ISBN 978 0 7123 5126 3
The Bloomsbury Group
Two CDs £16 inc. VAT
ISBN 978 0 7123 0593 8
Caribbean Roots
Two CDs £16 inc. VAT
ISBN 978 0 7123 5116 4
Edith Sitwell
CD £10 inc. VAT
ISBN 978 0 7123 0548 8
Short Stories
Three CDs £20.00 inc. VAT
ISBN 978 0 7123 5110 2
Short Stories volume 2
Three CDs £20 inc. VAT
ISBN 978 0 7123 5125 6
The Essential Shakespeare
Live
Two CDs £16 inc. VAT
ISBN 978 0 7123 0524 2
The Essential Shakespeare
Live Encore
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Kings and Queens
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Beautiful Bird Songs from
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Ted Hughes
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Sounds of the Night
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1000 Years of English Literature 1000 Years of Royal Manuscripts 36
41
Advice to Single Women 16
Album Amicorum and the London of Shakespeare’s Time 36
Alice’s Adventures Under Ground 35
American Writers 43
Angel of Charleston, The 41
Antidote to Venom 10
Art and History of Globes, The 39
Beautiful Bird Songs from Around the World 45
Beautiful Bird Songs of Britain 45
Beautiful Bookbindings 36
Beauty, What It Is… 38
Black Cat Book, The 19
Blackbird 45
Bloomsbury Group, The 43
Book and the Transformation of Britain, The 36
Book of Nonsense, A 31
Book of the British Library, The 39
Book Trade in Early Modern England, The 36
Booklover’s Book of Jokes 38
Books as History 36
Bookscape 39
British Bird Sounds 45
British Poets 43
British Writers 43
Capital Crimes 8
Caribbean Roots 43
Cat and the Birds and Other Fables, The 37
Cat and the Moon, The 27
Cat that Walked by Himself, The 37
Censors at Work 33
Charleston Bulletin Supplements, The 41
City Lights and Streets Ahead 41
Codex Sinaiticus 21, 42
Comic, Curious and Quirky News Stories 32
Comics Unmasked 25
Cornish Coast Murder, The 38
Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues 36
Countryside Birds 45
Cruel Deeds and Dreadful Calamities 39
Culture of Correction in Renaissance
Europe, The 36
Curious Cookbook, The 35
Dangerous Work Dawn Chorus Death on the Cherwell Deportment for Dukes and Tips for Toffs Discovering, Identifying and Editing Early
Modern Manuscripts Dogs in Books 46
Index
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41
Edith Sitwell Electronic Beowulf English Manuscripts before 1400 Evelyn Waugh Evolving English 43
40
40
43
39
Face in the Glass, The Female Detective, The Finishing Touch, The First World War in Poetry, The From Books to Bezoars From Compositors to Collectors From the Penny Dreadful to the
Ha’penny Dreadfuller 24
35
30
43
40
36
Gentleman’s Art of Dressing with
Economy, The George Barker Georgian Art of Gambling, The Georgians Revealed Golden Age of Flowers, The Great Impersonation, The Grimm’s Household Tales Guide to Western Historical Scripts
from Antiquity to 1600, A 36
38
43
39
39
36
29
37
40
H. G. Wells 43
Hidden Stories of the First World War 39
History of Chromolithography, A 36
History of the 20th Century in 100 Maps, A 26
History of the Book in 100 Books, The 26
Hog’s Back Mystery 11
How to Be Pretty though Plain 30
How to Cure the Plague 39
How to Live to Be 22 41
How to Skin a Lion 15
Hunting of the Snark, The 37
Illuminators and Patrons in
Fourteenth-Century England Illustrating Shakespeare In the Company of Cats In the Prayse of Writing Intelligence Revealed Irish Poets and Writers Kings and Queens Lady Cycling Ladybird Story, The Lake District Murder, The Land of Opportunity, The Laurie Lee Lawrence Durrell Lindisfarne Gospels and the Early
Medieval World, The 34
41
27
41
37
43
37, 43
38
32
38
41
34
44
Lingo of No Man’s Land Literary Christmas, A Literary Love Affair, A Lives of the Mughal Emperors, The London: A History in Maps London: A Life in Maps London: A Literary Anthology London Town
Look of Love, The Love Letters 39
41
44
39
39
39
23
37
38
42
Macclesfield Alphabet Book, The Magic of Birds, The Magna Carta: Law, Liberty, Legacy Magna Carta: Manuscripts and Myths Magnificent Maps Manners for Millionaires Manners for Schoolboys Manuscript and Print in London Manuscript Miscellanies Maps of Paradise Medieval Cats Medieval Dogs Medieval Flower Book, The Medieval Maps of the Holy Land Medieval Monsters Medieval Women Mr Bazalgette’s Agent Murder in Piccadilly Murder Underground Mystery in White 41
23
3
40
40
38
17
37
40
40
40
40
36
40
4
14
38
6
38
28
Narrative of John Smith, The New Testament 1526 Nonsense Botany and Nonsense Alphabets Nonsense Songs and Stories Notting Hill Mystery, The 42
42
37
37
38
Old Man’s Guide to Health and Longer Life Out of this World Owl and the Pussy-Cat, The 39
42
37
Painted Labyrinth Peake in China Peake’s Progress Philosophy of Beards, The Photographs and Words Pleasures of the Garden Pleasures of the Table Poet and Critic Propaganda: Power and Persuasion Publication of Plays in
Eighteenth-Century England, The Publishing the Fine and Applied Arts Puss in Boots 22
37
42
41
33
42, 44
25
36
42
12
42
40
Raffles’ Ark Redrawn Resorting to Murder Revelations of a Lady Detective Ride a Cock Horse Royal Manuscripts 40
9
38
18
41
Samuel Beckett Santa Klaus Murder, The Science Fiction Writers Scream in Soho, A Sea Monsters on Medieval and
Renaissance Maps Second I Saw You, The Secret Songs of Birds Shakespeare Live Shakespeare Live Encore Shakespeare’s First Folio Shakespeare’s Original Pronunciation Short Stories Songs of Garden Birds Sounds of the Night Spy Paramount, The St Cuthbert Gospel, The Stevie Smith Story of Graphic Design, The Sussex Downs Murder, The Sylvia Plath 44
38
44
28
35
13
45
43
43
42
44
43
45
45
29
20
44
36
7
44
Taymouth Hours, The Ted Hughes Terror and Wonder Tom Stoppard Tudor Manuscripts Tyndale’s Bible 41
44
24
37, 44
40
44
Voices of History 44, 45
Wartime Nursery Rhymes 31
Waves 45
W. H. Auden 44
Wild London 45
Wild Scotland 45
Wild World 45
William Caxton and Early Printing in England 37
William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin 44
Woman Owner-Driver, The 39
World at their Fingertips, The 40
Writing Britain 42
Writing Life, The 44
W. T. Stead Newspaper Revolutionary 42
You Have Been Warned! 39
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Index
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