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‘Two Dear Greek Women’: Michael Field’s Dionysian aestheticism
By Alessia Colombo, Cataloguer Michael Field was the poetic identity created by Katharine Harris...
Collecting the Works of Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens is regarded as the greatest English novelist of the nineteenth century and is the...
All Nature Was a Garden: English Horticultural Books
From the earliest days of print, botanical literature in general and gardens in particular have...
Learn the Lore: What happens in the Silmarillion?
The beloved novels of J. R. R. Tolkien have found homes in the hearts of readers since their...
Shelf to Table: Collecting Rare Cookery Books
We have been fortunate enough to handle some exceptional rare cookery books and manuscripts over...
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Chinese Myths and Folklore with Dr Matt Wills
Handcrafted Papercuts by Women in ChinaOur Asia specialist Dr Matt discusses Myths and Folklore, an album of beautifully handcrafted papercuts made by Chinese students at the Ai Dao Women's Bible School in the 1930s. The stories they depict in this artwork range from...
One of Our Sixty Fine Items
LAWRENCE, T. E. The Foundations of Arab Revolt.Our senior specialist Adam Douglas shares a copy of The Foundations of Revolt owned by Robin Buxton. This is the famously rare first state of the prospectus for Seven Pillars of Wisdom, which includes the controversial...
Leadership with John Ryan
John Ryan present our Leadership catalogue which presents five centuries of print history, alongside significant manuscript and striking visual material. Revolutionaries and radicals, premiers and presidents, royalty and military commanders, founders of religions, and...