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The Book that Changed Europe: Picart & Bernard’s Religious Ceremonies of the World
Between the Reformation and the beginning of the 18th century, Europe endured two centuries of strife and bloodshed in the name of religion – riots, civil wars, and international conflicts,...
Arthur Rackham: The Golden Age of Illustration
The first two decades of the 20th century have become known as the Golden Age of Illustration, when improvements in printing technology allowed publishers to produce lavish colour illustrations for...
An Anti-Women’s Suffrage Book for Children: Votes for Catharine Susan and Me by Kathleen Ainslie
Take a break from coverage of the US presidential election and have a look at the most unusual book in our recent children’s literature catalogue, the story of two wooden dolls who join the British...
Jewels & Illuminations: Sangorski & Sutcliffe
The volume above, seen housed in its silk and velvet-lined case, represents the peak of twentieth-century book arts. Sangorski & Sutcliffe was founded in an attic in Bloomsbury in 1901...
Flappers at Sea
This utterly charming little book was placed on my desk by a colleague who knows about my secret desire to be a flapper. Published in 1931 after originally appearing in the periodical The...
Scrapbook
Does anyone know what this is? All we know is that it's the most interesting page from a 19th-century scrapbook we recently acquired. And to be honest, the mystery is probably more fun than learning...
The Betamax of Printing
This is one of our most exciting recent purchases, a hand-coloured leaf from a fifteenth-century block book known as the Ars Moriendi (The Art of Dying). Book technology and the transition between...
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