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Mapping Shakespeare’s WorldPETER WHITFIELD

• This fully illustrated book explores Shakespeare’s world through contemporary maps, geographical texts, paintings, and drawings.

• Reveals how many of the locations for Shakespeare’s plays may have had resonances, which an Elizabethan audience would pick up and understand.

• Brings to light the intriguing and sometimes surprising significance of the geographical backgrounds of Shakespeare’s settings.

• 110 colour illustrations.Peter Whitfield is the author of numerous books of history, poetry, and literary criticism, including, Travel: A Literary History, also published by the Bodleian Library.

Pbk | 208pp | 9781851242573 | 2015.07 Bodleian Library | A$66 | NZ$75

Are You Really a Genius?: Timeless Tests for the Irritatingly Intelligent 2edROBERT A STREETER AND ROBERT G HOEHN

• Hilarious presentation of verbal tests, story puzzles, hard sums, and tricky spellings to test mental aptitude.

• Each answer (provided at the back) is carefully scored to determine the exact level of genius attained.

• Drawing on the simpler aspects of life in the 1930s, the book includes charmingly antique scenarios and old-fashioned extracts, as well as some timeless favourites.

• Authors have a very quirky sense of humour.

Hbk | 128pp | 9781851244232 | 2015.03 Bodleian Library | A$27.95 | NZ$32.95

Portraits of ShakespeareKATHERINE DUNCAN-JONES

• New research and examination of Shakespeare’s mysterious portraits.

• Sheds new light on the last years of Shakespeare’s life.

• Detailed history and critique of the three major Shakespeare portraits.

• 40 colour illustrations.Katherine Duncan-Jones is an emeritus fellow of Somerville College, University of Oxford. She is the author of numerous books, including a biography of Shakespeare.

Pbk | 128pp | 9781851244058 | 2015.06 Bodleian Library | A$39.95 | NZ$44.95

Magna Carta: Origins and LegacyNICHOLAS VINCENT

• Beautifully illustrated guide to the publication and survival of Magna Carta.

• Reproduces photographs of more than thirty Magna Cartas, each of them claiming to be ‘original’.

• Draws on recent extensive archival research to tell the story of this famous charter.

• 40 colour plates.Nicholas Vincent is director of the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Magna Carta project and the author or co-author of several books about the charter. He is professor of medieval history at the University of Anglia and a fellow of the British Academy.


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Heath Robinson’s Golf: Classic Cartoons and Ingenious ContraptionsW HEATH ROBINSON

• Complete collection of the golf satire from the iconic British illustrator Heath Robinson.

• Characterful and gentle humour that pokes fun at the portly golfer and his long-suffering caddie.

• A gem for the golf enthusiast.• 56 duotones.

William Heath Robinson (1872–1944) was a British cartoonist. Trained in painting at the Royal Academy of Arts, he eventually became so well-known for the madcap contraptions that were the subject of cartoons in popular weeklies that a code breaking device was named after him during WWII.


Marks of Genius: Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian LibrariesSTEPHEN HEBRON

• A catalogue of some of the most remarkable items in the Bodleian Libraries collections.

• Celebrates the Bodleian’s extraordinary collections on the opening of the new Weston Library.

• Fully illustrated with 200 photographs of the works.

“Marks of Genius is a must. . . . The photographs are rich and detailed, and each entry features illustrative historical context. . . . Collecting this material in one place allows viewers to build a multifaceted understanding of genius.” - Choice


Heath Robinson: How to Live in a FlatW HEATH ROBINSON AND K R G BROWNE

• Characterful and gentle humour that pokes fun at the lack of space in city apartments.

• Wonderfully amusing compendium of William Heath Robinson’s inventive space-saving contraptions.

• A gem for any city dweller.• 118 black and white illustrations.

A side-splittingly funny collection from the man whose “absurd, beautiful drawings” H. G. Wells claimed “give me a peculiar pleasure of the mind like nothing else in the world,” this book make a perfect gift for anyone looking to have a laugh at our complicated and increasingly mechanical modern life.


Scholars, Poets and Radicals: Discovering Forgotten Lives in the Blackwell CollectionsRITA RICKETTS

• Fascinating life stories giving insight into publishing and bookselling in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

• Includes memoirs, letters, and journals, many of which have never previously been published.

• Contains absorbing, valuable, and rich material for any book or cultural historian.

• 40 pages of colour plates and 40 black and white illustrations.

Rita Ricketts is the author of Adventurers All and co-editor of A Guide to the Merton Blackwell Collection and Initiate: An Oxford Anthology of New Writing.

Hbk | 320pp | 9781851244256 | 2015.03 Bodleian Library | A$83 | NZ$97

Qur’ans: Books of Divine EncounterKEITH E SMALL

• Draws on one of the oldest collections of Qur’ān’s in the English speaking world. • Brings together a magnificent range of Qur’ānic manuscripts in one volume. • Lavishly illustrated historical overview of these beautiful and significant sacred texts.• 58 colour illustrations.

Keith E Small is Qur’anic manuscript consultant to the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, and a research fellow at the London School of Theology.“This magnificent survey of Qur’anic manuscripts provides a vivid illustration of Muslim devotion to the text of the Qur’an.” - Andrew Rippin, Institute of Ismaili Studies, London



ARCHITECTUREDr Radcliffe’s Library: The Story of the Radcliffe Camera in OxfordSTEPHEN HEBRONDrawing on maps, plans, photographs, and drawings, Dr Radcliffe’s Library tells the fascinating story of the building’s creation over more than thirty years. Early designs for the Radcliffe Camera were drawn by the brilliant architect Nicholas Hawksmoor, who conceived the shape so recognisable today: a great rotunda topped by the University of Oxford’s only dome. From there, it would take decades to acquire and clear the site between the University Church of St Mary’s and the Bodleian. After Hawksmoor’s death, the project was taken on by the Scottish architect James Gibbs who refined the design and supervised the library’s construction. 8 pages of colour plates and 36 black and white illustrations.


GIFT BOOKSNew York in QuotationsJAQUELINE MITCHELL“Make your mark in New York and you are a made man,” wrote Mark Twain, encapsulating both the naked ambition of the city’s citizens and the opportunities up for grabs in the Big Apple. Others take a more cynical approach, calling the city “an aviary overstocked with jays” (O Henry), a “sucked orange” (Ralph Waldo Emerson), or “fantastically charmless and elaborately dire” (Henry James). Over the last three-and-a-half centuries, this glamorous, twenty-four hour city has attracted a multitude of thinkers, poets, novelists, and playwrights, many of whom have brilliantly encapsulated its unique spirit through verse, prose, or the ultimate wisecrack.


Paris in QuotationsJAQUELINE MITCHELLBe it praise or colourful invective, everyone, it seems, has something to say about Paris and this slender volume - filled with wise, witty, and sometimes scandalous quotes - presents the full range of impressions it has made. Paris in Quotations takes readers on a one-of-a-kind tour of the City of Lights, in which we hear from the likes of Molière and Thomas Gold Appleton, who thought that, “When good Americans die, they go to Paris.” For centuries, Paris has reigned over the popular imagination. For those planning a visit, this collection will be warmly welcomed.


HISTORYLatin Inscriptions in OxfordREGINALD H ADAMSFor six centuries following its foundation, Latin was the main language written and spoken at the University of Oxford. Today, one can still find Latin inscriptions carved into many of its monuments, as well those of the city, dating from the medieval period to the present day. For Latin Inscriptions in Oxford, Reginald H Adams, a former scholar at St. John’s College, University of Oxford, has translated a selection of Latin inscriptions.


New Bodleian: The Making of the Weston LibraryTHE BODLEIAN LIBRARYIn 2009, with a bequest from the Garfield Weston Foundation, the Bodleian Library and the London firm Wilkinson Eyre Architects began to move forward with plans to refurbish the New Bodleian. New Bodleian: The Making of the Weston Library tells the story of how the plans for the new Weston Library - as the New Bodleian is now known - were realised, describing in detail the architectural, academic, curatorial, and heritage considerations addressed, as well as the successful collaborations between clients and consultants. 100 colour illustrations.


HUMOURHeath Robinson: How to be a MotoristW HEATH ROBINSON AND K R G BROWNEFor the car enthusiast, How to Be a Motorist offers a compendium of Robinson’s wonderfully inventive car-based contraptions, with innovations like a handy “zip-opening bonnet” and a fork attachment to help rural motorists to avoid the occasional chicken on the roadway. The days of unsolicited driving advice could be over with the realisation of Robinson’s “duo car for the incompatible,” and the book also includes a parody of a production line demonstrating how cars are made. 111 black and white illustrations.


Heath Robinson’s Great War: The Satirical CartoonsW HEATH ROBINSONWith Heath Robinson’s Great War, the cartoonist lampoons the German army and the hardships of war. What better antidote to the threat of popular German propaganda than drawings of the “Huns” disabling the British army not with mustard gas but laughing gas? A side-splittingly funny collection from the man whose “absurd, beautiful drawings” H. G. Wells claimed “give me a peculiar pleasure of the mind like nothing else in the world,” this book make a perfect gift for anyone looking to have a laugh at our complicated and increasingly mechanical modern life. 154 duotone illustrations.



ALSO AVAILABLEA Conspiracy of Ravens: A Compendium of Collective Nouns for BirdsSAMUEL FANOUSA charm of goldfinches. An ostentation of peacocks. A murder of crows. The English language brims with witty words for flocks of birds! Thought to have originated from hunting manuals, the practice of inventing collective nouns for birds has since evolved into a sport all its own, with new words striving to perfectly capture the essence of each bird. A Conspiracy of Ravens presents readers with a compendium of collective bird nouns from the distant and not-so-distant past. 110 halftones.


The Food Lovers’ Anthology: A literary compendiumBODLEIAN LIBRARYCollected in this anthology is a mouthwatering selection of excerpts on the subject of eating, drinking, cooking, and serving food that is guaranteed to whet every reader’s appetite. Themed sections group together poetry and prose on grapes and bottles, the ideal cuisine, hangover cures, and vivid vignettes about dinner party behaviour. There are stories about food fit for kings, a duchess’s “rumblings abdominal,” fine dining, eating abroad, cooking at home, and gastronomic excesses. Featuring writers as diverse as Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, Edward Lear, John Keats, Charles Dickens, Maria Edgeworth, and Marcel Proust, garnished with a generous helping of cartoons, this is a perfect gift for foodies, chefs, picnickers, and epicurean explorers.

Hbk | 304pp | 9781851244218 | 2014.11 Bodleian Library | A$56.95 | NZ$64

The Book Lovers’ Anthology: A compendium of writing about books, readers and librariesBODLEIAN LIBRARYCan books corrupt? Do badly written books sharpen or dull the minds of their readers? Ought we to take seriously the old saw that excessive reading can damage one’s sight? The Book Lovers’ Anthology offers answers to these questions and many more with a remarkable collection of reflections on the book - by the writers whose books are among the world’s best known and best loved. With contributions from major writers across ages and genres, this is an essential anthology for which any bibliophile will want to find space on the shelf.

Hbk | 352pp | 9781851244188 | 2014.11 Bodleian Library | A$57.95 | NZ$67

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: Illustrated Collectors EditionOMAR KHAYYAMThe Rubáiyát is one of the most popular poems of all time. A collection of quatrains composed in the eleventh century by Persian poet and philosopher Omar Khayyám, it was first published in English-language translation by Edward Fitzgerald in 1859. Since then, its melancholy tone and enigmatic philosophy of mourning the painful brevity of life while celebrating what pleasures we may find have made it an inspiration to many writers, including Matthew Arnold and Thomas Hardy. More recently, it has also been the subject of many music adaptations and films. This collector’s edition of The Rubáiyát features stunning full-colour illustrations created by René Bull in 1913 that interpret the poem’s brilliant sensual imagery and provide the perfect complement to Fitzgerald’s translation, which remains the most famous. 64 colour plates.

Hbk | 112pp | 9781851244171 | 2014.12 Bodleian Library | A$74 | NZ$86

Bodleian Library TreasuresDAVID VAISEYFormer Bodley’s Librarian David Vaisey has selected nearly one hundred treasures with a particularly fascinating story to tell. Rare books, music, manuscripts, ephemera, and maps, many of the treasures photographed and described for this lavish volume are well-loved around the world, from Jane Austen’s manuscript of The Watsons to notebooks created by the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, a map of Narnia drawn by C. S. Lewis, and the original manuscript of the renowned children’s work The Wind in the Willows. A coveted glimpse into the Bodleian Library, Treasures serves as a beautifully illustrated introduction to the Library’s literary and historical riches, while offering insights into particular works contained within. 180 colour plates.

Pbk | 232pp | 9781851244089 | 2015.02 Bodleian Library | A$54.95 | NZ$63

Chicago in QuotationsSTUART SHEAWhether you look upon the city with admiration, disgust, or an incongruous combination of the two, Chicago has captured the imagination of generations of poets, novelists, journalists, and commentators who have visited or called it home. Chicago in Quotations offers a compendium of the most colourful impressions that citizens of - or visitors to - the Second City will appreciate.


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