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The Love of Books, being the Philobiblon of Richard de Bury

Richard De Bury, Tiger

• Paperback | Engels
• Richard de Bury's Philobiblon, completed in 1345, is the great medieval treatise on the love of books. He was an obsessive book-collector who argued t... Lees meer

The Ecclesiastical History of the English People

Bede

• Hardcover | Engels
• The venerable Bede (AD 672-735) was not the first historian of the British Isles, but he was the first to to list and master his documentary and oral ... Lees meer

The History of English Handwriting Ad 700-1400

E M Thompson, Edward Maunde Thompson

• Paperback | Engels
• Thompson's History of English Handwriting charts the development of the distinctive, and often very beautiful, English scripts, beginning with the int... Lees meer

The Stoic, the Weal and the Malcontent

Julia Lacey Brooke

• Hardcover | Engels
• Enter the Malcontent... a misfit, an outcast, a 'strayer from the drove', one who laughs at the follies of others from a distance, like Jacques, or wh... Lees meer

Ecclesiastical History of the English People

Bede

• Paperback | Engels
• A handsome, large-format paperback edition set in elegant type with generous margins. The venerable Bede (AD 672-735) was not the first historian of t... Lees meer

Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds

Bernard De Fontenelle

• Paperback | Engels
• When Bernard de Fontenelle published the first edition of his Entretiens sur la Pluralité des Mondes in 1686, it was an immediate success. In an age w... Lees meer

I Love You

• Paperback | Engels
• Contents: There is a Lady Sweet and Kind - Anonymous; From a Lady to a Gentleman, in Answer to a Complimentary Copy of Verses - Anonymous; A Cheerful ... Lees meer

An Apology for the Life of Major General Gunning

John Gunning

• Hardcover | Engels
• Mentioned in despatches at Bunker Hill, brother to the Duchess of Argyll and the Countess of Coventry, John Gunning occupied an enviable position in G... Lees meer

Enemies of Books

William Blades, Randolph G Adams

• Paperback | Engels
• The wittiest commentary on book-collecting and the care of books ever written, Blades's Enemies of Books enummerates the enemies as: Fire; Water; Gas ... Lees meer

Landesmania!

P Trevena

• Hardcover | Engels
• This volume presents the life and times of Jay Landesman, author, entertainer, writer and publisher. Lees meer

Bibliomania

T F Dibdin

• Hardcover | Engels
• Dibdin's Bibliomania is an anthem to the printed book, a warning to the unwary about the perils of obsessive book-collecting, and the confessions of a... Lees meer

Seven of Her Lays

Marie de France, Edith Rickert

• Paperback | Engels
• Despite their modest size, the Lays of Marie de France are among the finest flowerings of Medieval French literature. They are charming, witty, and im... Lees meer

Afghan Silk

J Scott

• Paperback | Engels
• It's 1938 and the world is changing quickly. Hitler is stirring the German nation into a xenophobic frenzy. Michael, a British officer in the Gurkhas ... Lees meer

Handel

William Hayman Cummings

• Paperback | Engels
• 'He was the greatest composer that ever lived, ' said Beethoven of Handel. 'He is the father of us all, ' wrote Haydn. This short, vivid biography of ... Lees meer

Anecdotes of George Frederick Handel and John Christopher Smith

William Coxe

• Paperback | Engels
• William Coxe (1748-1828) was the stepson of Handel's amanuensis, John Christopher Smith. As such, he was ideally placed to write a biography of Smith,... Lees meer

The Student's Dictionary of Anglo-Saxon

H Sweet

• Paperback | Engels
• Generations of students of English have benefited from the changes that Sweet wrought in the understanding of the historical and contemporary forms of... Lees meer

Purcell

William Hayman Cummings

• Paperback | Engels
• William Cummings's highly regarded biography of has been revised and reset to mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of Henry Purcell, one of the gre... Lees meer

The Bibliomania or Book-Madness

T F Dibdin

• Paperback | Engels
• 'If the editor has allowed himself to become as Dibdinesque as his subject, then it is all part of the fun of a work where references and citations ru... Lees meer

Annals of the Bodleian Library

Wlliam Dunn Macray

• Hardcover | Engels
• This fascinating book describes the history of Oxford University's great academic library, from the foundation of Cobham's Library in 1367, Richard de... Lees meer

The Original and Growth of Printing

Richard Atkyns

• Paperback | Engels
• Published for the first time with The King's Grant of Privilege for Sole Printing Common-Law-Books Defended and The Vindication of Richard Atkyns Esqu... Lees meer

Landesmania!

P Trevena

• Paperback | Engels
• This book should be read by every bored citizen in the West who wants to change their life but doesn't know how to do it. It is a handbook of how to w... Lees meer

Attempting Adulthood

Faith Hancock, William Collins

• Paperback | Engels
• This book is for all of us. Yes, even you! If you've made it to 18 (or even 80), you probably think you've reached adulthood. Unfortunately, life isn'... Lees meer

The Life of Handel

Victor Schoelcher

• Paperback | Engels
• Gossipy and anecdotal, yet scholarly and impeccably researched, Schoelcher's vivid biography of Handel must rank as one of the finest portraits of a m... Lees meer

An Apology for the Life of Major General Gunning

John Gunning

• Paperback | Engels
• Mentioned in despatches at Bunker Hill, brother to the Duchess of Argyll and the Countess of Coventry, John Gunning occupied an enviable position in G... Lees meer