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This book celebrates the greatest of English novelists by illustrating his abiding preoccupations. It reproduces extracts from the novels alongside a selection of the original covers, their illustrations and all the paraphernalia of nineteenth-century advertising, breathing life into the vibrant world of Dickens and his characters.

The first book about the life, career, and pictures of this pioneering photographic artist (1849-1930), this is a richly illustrated introduction to the beginnings of colour photography, featuring previously unpublished specimens of photographic art, including four unrecorded child portraits by Lewis Carroll.

Lavishly illustrated with over 150 images, this book gives an excellent insight into the key issues and evolving strategies of the Conservative Party throughout the twentieth century, and up to the present day. A foreword by advertising guru Maurice Saatchi discusses the posters from a communication and design perspective.

Drawing on the Marconi Archives in the Bodleian Library, the most extensive record of wireless communications, this book recounts the fateful events of April 1912 using complete transcripts of the messages to re-tell this legendary story as it was first heard.

Richly illustrated with images of eighteenth-century manuscripts, books, and pamphlets, some of which are published here for the first time, this attractive book is an excellent guide to the emergence of Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah) in Germany.

Collected in this anthology is a mouth-watering selection of excerpts on the subject of eating, drinking, cooking and serving food, guaranteed to whet every reader's appetite. Featuring diverse writers and interspersed with a generous helping of cartoons, this is a perfect gift for foodies, chefs, picnickers and epicurean explorers.

From King Arthur and the Round Table to Alexander the Great's global conquests, the stories of romance appear in some of the most beautiful books of the Middle Ages. This book provides an engaging, scholarly, and richly illustrated guide to medieval romance and its continuing influence on literature and art.

These personal and revealing essays by the master of science fiction reveal the influences behind his writing and offer new insights into the man and his world.

Highly illustrated with colour images of manuscripts, rare books, and artefacts, this book showcases the many important Korean antiquities held in the Bodleian Libraries and Museums of Oxford in a single volume for the first time.

Presenting such innovations as the 'Zip-Opening Bonnet', the 'Duo-car for the Incompatible' and the handy 'New Rear Wheel Gear for Turning the Car in One Movement', this volume will appeal to 'everybody who is ever likely to drive, be driven in, or get run over by a mechanically propelled vehicle'.

Continuing the artist-designed 'Photo Postcards from the Tom Phillips Archive' series, 'Weddings' presents 200 images from the turn of the century that captures all the stages of the ceremony.

Illustrating Empire tells the history of the British Empire through the ephemeral images used to promote, record, and celebrate its development. The narrative is told through more than 200 striking and original images accompanied by illuminating story captions which unlock the history and meaning behind the illustrations.

No work has challenged its readers like Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Blake's "Proverbs of Hell"--by turns iconoclastic, bizarre, and unprecedented--have been employed as the slogans of student protest and become axioms of modern thought. Most extraordinary, though, is the revolutionary method Blake employed in making the physical book. The Bodleian Library holds one of the first copies that Blake printed using a technique he called "illuminated printing," and it is the only work in which he signifies its importance.This new facsimile edition of The Marriage of Heaven and Hell includes a plate-by-plate guide to the texts, interlinear figures, and larger designs in a commentary accompanying the transcript of each reproduced plate. Drawings from Blake's manuscript notebook, which were used as a basis for the designs, as well as working proof impressions, are also included, demonstrating the evolution of the work. This edition also reproduces a single plate from each of the other eight surviving copies, revealing how over a period of more than thirty years Blake altered the way he finished each copy. An introduction explores the book's literary and historical background, Blake's printing process, and the book's anonymous initial publication. This expertly edited work is available for students and scholars in paperback and for collectors in a special hardcover edition. Both versions allow Blake's vision to reassert its breathtaking power.

Assembled and designed by Tom Phillips from his themed collection of over 50,000 photographic postcards, 'Women & Hats' explores the remarkable range in the world of millinery from outrageous Edwardian creations to the inventive austerities of the Second World War.

Assembled and designed by the artist Tom Phillips from his collection of over 50,000 photographic postcards, 'Readers' shows people reading (or pretending to read) a wide variety of material from the Bible to Film Fun, either in the photographer's studio, in their own home or holidaying on the beach.

A niece of Jane Austen and a novelist herself, Catherine Hubback wrote regularly to her eldest son John and his wife Mary. Her letters offer an articulate, detailed commentary on life in California by a gentlewoman managing a household and finding her place in a new world

This beautifully illustrated book examines the changing role of the garden and its plants in Britain from the early sixteenth to the late nineteenth century. A showcase for rarely seen botanical illustrations from Oxford libraries and herbaria, among the best in the world, this is a fascinating book for plant enthusiasts and gardeners.

Drawing on the archives of both the Bodleian and New York Public Library, this book offers a uniquely visual and insightful account of the lives and posthumous reputations of Percy Bysshe Shelley, his wife Mary Shelley, and Mary's parents, William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft.

This books tells the fascinating story of the creation and immediate afterlife of the first and most popular Bible in English. With over 60 illustrations of manuscripts, artefacts, and archival material, this beautiful book presents essays by leading scholars, including Diarmaid MacCulloch.

This quirky and ingenious puzzle book, originally published in 1938, allows you to discover whether you are a genius through a variety of fiendish brain-teasers, tortuous trick questions and complex numerical challenges. Why not try it out on your clever friends and discover which of them is truly a genius?

Remembered today for his 'Brief Lives', John Aubrey (1626-97) was one of the foremost scholars and antiquaries in the great decades of the British scientific revolution. This richly illustrated book is the first accessible guide to Aubrey's many diverse achievements as a biographer, antiquary, mathematician, and all-round virtuoso.

While Jeu de paume has been played in France for hundreds of years, the modern game of tennis dates from 1874. Published in association with the All England Lawn Tennis Club (Wimbledon), this book examines the history of the rules of tennis from their first codification to the present day

Anthony Wood is one of the most colourful and informative chroniclers of seventeenth-century Britain. He describes the skirmishes between parliamentarian and royalist forces in the 1640s and the return of King Charles II in 1660. His account of his own life is peppered with famous people, including Christopher Wren and John Locke

The twentieth century has seen perhaps more political upheaval and change than any other period. This book draws together a unique collection of images of the individuals who influenced and shaped the course of the century in the political arena. The result is a fascinating and unique insight into the iconography of political power.

Established in 1968, John Fuller's Sycamore Press published some of the most critically acclaimed writers of the past half-century including W.H. Auden, Philip Larkin, and Peter Porter. The press ceased operations in 1992, but remains an excellent example of the unique qualities associated with the small press movement in England.

Major writers through the centuries have turned their minds to the subject of books, often with humour, sometimes with exasperation, always with affection. This essential anthology for bibliophiles offers a rich selection of musings on the virtues of libraries, books and 'the pleasant smell of paper freshly pressed.'

For nearly two hundred years, Mary Shelley's original text has lain dormant in the pages of her draft manuscript. This exciting new edition makes it possible to hear Mary's genuine voice for the very first time and shows the fascinating process whereby wife and husband collaborated on the first and most important work of science fiction.

The first known rules of golf were drawn up in 1744 in Edinburgh for the world's first open golf competition at Leith by the Gentlemen Golfers of Edinburgh, who became The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers. This book examines the history of the rules of golf from their first codification to the present day.

In the totalitarian states of the twentieth century, state-sanctioned art performed a key function, giving visual dimension to abstract political ideology. This book presents fifty postcards from the Soviet Union, Germany, Italy, Spain, and China, between 1920s and the 1970s, providing a fascinating look at the art of power and its expression.

A century ago, hereditary rulers governed the great world powers. Today, just ten monarchs still reign in Europe, their powers significantly curbed. Where have all the royals gone? These regal portraits hint at the values of another era and capture something of the essence of the long-vanished world of international royalty.