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Cover image Illustrations from Johann Wilhelm Weinmann’s Phytanthoza Iconographia, 1737–1745. Bodleian Library, Arch.Nat. hist. G 5-12. Taken from A Cornucopia of Fruit & Vegetables, page 2.

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Founded in 1602, the Bodleian Library is one of the oldest libraries in Britain and the largest university library in Europe. Since 1610, it has been entitled to receive a copy of every book published in the British Isles.

The Bodleian collections, built up through benefaction, purchase and legal deposit, are exceptionally diverse, spanning every corner of the globe and embracing almost every form of written work and the book arts. With over thirteen million items and outstanding special collections, the Bodleian draws readers from every continent and continues to inspire generations of researchers as well as the wider public who enjoy its exhibitions, displays, public lectures and other events. Increasingly, its unique collections are available to all digitally.

Bodleian Library Publishing helps to bring some of the riches of Oxford’s libraries to readers around the world through a range of beautiful and authoritative books. We publish approximately twenty-five new books a year on a wide range of subjects, including titles related to our exhibitions, illustrated and non-illustrated books, facsimiles, children’s books and stationery. We have a current backlist of over 250 titles.

All of our profits are returned to the Bodleian and help support the Library’s work in curating, conserving and expanding its rich archives, helping to maintain the Bodleian’s position as one of the pre-eminent libraries in the world.

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Close-up photographs of plump apricots, juicy mangoes, crisp lettuce … these are familiar to us all through cookery books and garden guides. But seeing fruit and vegetables as detailed art, viewed through eighteenth-century eyes, is something very different – and more interesting.

Thanks to intrepid explorers and plant-hunters, Britain and the rest of Europe have long enjoyed a wide and wonderful array of fruit and vegetables. Some wealthy households even created orangeries and glasshouses for tender exotics and special pits in which to raise pineapples, while tomatoes, sweetcorn and runner beans from the New World expanded the culinary repertoire.

This wealth of choice attracted interest beyond the kitchen and garden. In the 1730s Johann Wilhelm Weinmann, a prosperous Bavarian apothecary, produced the first volume of a comprehensive A to Z of plants, meticulously documented, and lavishly illustrated by botanical artists. A Cornucopia of Fruit & Vegetables is a glimpse into his world. It features exquisite illustrations of the edible plants in his historic treasury, allowing us to enjoy the sight of swan-necked gourds and horned lemons, smile at silkworms hovering over mulberries and delight at the quirkiness of ‘strawberry spinach’ … a delicious medley of garden produce and much else.

A Cornucopia of Fruit & Vegetables Illustrations from an Eighteenth-Century Botanical Treasury

Caroline Ball

ALSO BY THE AUTHOR

Heritage Apples 9781851245161 illus HB £25.00

CAROLINE BALL is an editor, copywriter and occasional translator who has written on many subjects, but has a particular interest in horticulture, garden history and the plant-hunters, both men and women, who have made our gardens and countryside the rich and diverse habitats they are today. She is a keen gardener and author of Heritage Apples, and has contributed to other books, including a study of William Morris and a guide to historical sites.

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A Cornucopia ofFruit &

Vegetablesi l l u s t r at ion s f ro m

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Since 1621, and the foundation of the Oxford Botanic Garden, Oxford has built up an outstanding collection of plant specimens, botanical illustrations and rare books on plant classification, collecting and plant biology. These archives, and the living plants in the Garden, are integral to the study of botany in the University.

This book profiles the botanists and collections which have helped to transform our understanding of the biology of plants over the past four centuries, focusing on plant classification, experimental botany, building botanical collections, agriculture and forestry and botanical education. Highlights include a selection of Ferdinand Bauer’s renowned illustrations for Flora Graeca – an extraordinarily lavish and detailed eighteenth-century botanical publication of plants found in the Eastern Mediterranean – and rare plant speci-mens from the herbaria, such as Fairchild’s Mule (the first artificially created hybrid plant).

Together with seventeenth-century herbals, elegant garden plans, plant models and fossil slides, these items from the archives all help to tell the story of botanical science in Oxford and the intrepid bota-nists who devoted themselves to the essential study of plants.

Roots to Seeds 400 Years of Oxford Botany

Stephen A. Harris

VISIT THE EXHIBITION Bodleian Libraries, Oxford Roots to Seeds: 400 Years of

Oxford Botany

May – October 2021

ALSO BY THE AUTHOR

Planting Paradise: Cultivating the Garden 1501–1900 9781851243433 illus HB £29.99

STEPHEN A. HARRIS is Druce Curator

of Oxford University Herbaria.

224 pp, 259 x 237 mm c.80 colour illus 9781851245611 HB £40.00 May 2021 In association with Oxford Botanic Garden



This is the first facsimile publication of Martha Lloyd’s Household Book, the manuscript cookbook of Jane Austen’s closest friend. Martha’s notebook is reproduced in a colour facsimile section with complete transcription and detailed annotation. Introductory chapters discuss its place among other household books of the eighteenth century.

Martha Lloyd befriended a young Jane Austen and later lived with Jane, her sister Cassandra and their mother at the cottage in Chawton, Hampshire, where Jane wrote or revised her novels. Martha later married into the Austen family. Her collection features recipes and remedies handwritten during a period of over thirty years and includes the only surviving recipes from Mrs Austen and Captain Francis Austen, Jane’s mother and brother.

There are many connections between Martha’s book and Jane Austen’s writing, including white soup from Pride and Prejudice and the author’s favourites – toasted cheese and mead. The family, culinary and literary connections detailed in the introductory chapters of this work give a fascinating perspective on the time and manner in which both women lived, thanks to this extraordinary artefact passed down through the Austen family.

Martha Lloyd’s Household Book The Original Manuscript from Jane Austen’s Kitchen

Introduced with annotated transcription by Julienne Gehrer Foreword by Deirdre Le Faye

ALSO OF INTEREST

Jane Austen: The Chawton Letters Kathryn Sutherland 9781851244744 illus HB £14.99

JULIENNE GEHRER is an author, journalist and food historian who lectures on Jane Austen and the long

eighteenth century.

312 pp, 223 x 171 mm c.85 colour illus 9781851245604 HB £30.00 June 2021 In association with Jane Austen's House

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From the Vulgate to the Vernacular Four Debates on an English Question c.1400

Edited by Elizabeth Solopova, Jeremy Catto and Anne Hudson

ELIZABETH SOLOPOVA is a Research

Fellow and lecturer at the English

Faculty, University of Oxford. JEREMY

CATTO (1939–2018) was Fellow

Emeritus of Oriel College in the

University of Oxford. ANNE HUDSON

is a Fellow of the British Academy,

Professor Emerita (personal chair)

of Medieval English at the English

Faculty and an Honorary Fellow of

Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.

216 pp, 228 x 152 mm 8 pp colour plates 9781851245635 HB £185.00 January 2021 Studies and Texts 220; British Writers of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period 7 Published in North America by PIMS

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Translation is at the centre of Christianity, scripturally, as reflected in the biblical stories of the tower of Babel, or of the apostles’ speaking in tongues after the Ascension, and historically, where arguments about it were dominant in Councils, such as those of Trent or the Second Vatican Council of 1962–64, which, it should be recalled, privileged the use of the vernacular in liturgy.

The four texts edited here discuss the legitimacy of using the vernacular language for scriptural citation. This question in England became central to the perception of the followers of John Wyclif (sometimes known as Lollards): between 1409 and 1530 the use of English scriptures was severely impeded by the established church, and an episcopal licence was required for its possession or dissemination. The issue evidently aroused academic interest, especially in Oxford, where the first complete English translation seems to have originated. The three Latin works here survive complete, each in a single manuscript: of these texts two, written by a Franciscan, William Butler, and by a Dominican, Thomas Palmer, are wholly hostile to translation. The third, the longest and most perceptive, edited here for the first time, emerges as written by a secular priest of impressive learning, Richard Ullerston; his other writings display his radical, but not unorthodox opinions. The only English work here is a Wycliffite adaptation of Ullerston’s Latin. The volume provides editions and modern translations of these four texts, together with a substantial introduction explaining their context and the implications of their arguments, and encouraging further exploration of the perceptions of the nature of language that are displayed there, many of which, and notably of Ullerston, are in advance of those of his contemporaries.

The punctuation marks, mathematical symbols and glyphs which haunt the edges of our keyboards have evolved over many hundreds of years. They shape our understanding of texts, calculations and online interactions. Without these symbols all texts would run in endless unbroken lines of letters and numbers.

Many hands and minds have created, refined and promulgated the symbols which give form to our written communication. Through individual entries discussing the story behind each example, Hyphens & Hashtags reveals the long road many of these special characters have taken on their way into general use. In the digital age of communication, some symbols have gained an additional meaning or a new lease of life – the colon now doubles up as the eyes of a smiling face emoticon and the hashtag has travelled from obscurity to an essential component of social media. Alongside historical roots, this book also considers ever-evolving modern usage and uncovers those symbols which have now fallen out of fashion.

Hyphens & Hashtags casts a well-deserved spotlight on these stalwarts of typography whose handy knack for summing up a command or concept in simple shorthand marshals our sentences, clarifies a calculation or adds some much-needed emotion to our online interactions.

Hyphens & Hashtags* *The stories behind the symbols on our keyboards

Claire Cock-Starkey

ALSO BY THE AUTHOR

The Real McCoy and 149 Other Eponyms 9781851244980 HB £9.99

CLAIRE COCK-STARKEY is the author

of over a dozen non-fiction books on a

variety of subjects but all united in their

aim to tell fascinating stories.

192 pp, 184 x 118 mm 9781851245369 HB £12.99 March 2021



Stationery

Botanical Art Notebook Set – Lemon, Chillis and Apples 3 A5 ruled notebooks with stitched spines

Bodleian Library With illustrations from Johann Wilhelm Weinmann’s Phytanthoza Iconographia

Johann Wilhelm Weinmann was an apothecary who established a botanic garden in Regensburg and set about producing a highly detailed catalogue of plants and their uses, with illustrations commissioned from some of the finest engravers of the time. The resulting Phytanthoza Iconographia is an immense work, contained within several volumes published between 1737 and 1745. It features no fewer than 1,025 beautiful colour plates – including early examples of colour mezzotint – of all manner of fruit and vegetables.

Three of the exquisite plates are reproduced in this lovely set of A5 softback notebooks: the perfect gift for gardeners and connoisseurs of botanical illustration.

48 ruled pp each, 210 x 148 mm 9781851245697 3 A5 ruled notebooks with stitched spines £10.99 incl VAT May 2021

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Birds Journal Bodleian Library With illustrations by Eric Fitch Daglish

‘High from the earth I heard a bird’ – Emily Dickinson

Eric Fitch Daglish (1892–1966) was a wood engraver, writer and illustrator. His book Woodcuts of British Birds was published in 1925.

Daglish learnt the art of wood engraving from Paul Nash and became known for his illustrations of the natural world. He illustrated an edition of Gilbert White’s Natural History of Selborne and he both wrote and illustrated several books on natural history, including Birds of the British Isles, 1948.

Beautifully produced in hardback with ruled paper and ribbon marker, this makes a perfect gift for bird watchers and nature lovers.

160 ruled pp, 182 x 130 mm 19 b&w illus 9781851245680 HB £11.99 incl VAT April 2021

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Alice in Wonderland Journals Bodleian Library

Alice in Wonderland Journal – ‘Too Late,’ said the Rabbit 160 ruled pp, 182 x 130 mm 21 b&w illus 9781851245499 HB £11.99 incl VAT July 2020

Alice in Wonderland Journal – Alice in Court 160 ruled pp, 182 x 130 mm 21 b&w illus 9781851245420 HB £11.99 incl VAT July 2020

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Invented to entertain Alice Liddell on boat trips down the river Thames in Oxford, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has become one of the most famous and influential works of children’s literature of all time.

It is hard to imagine Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland without picturing the illustrations made by Sir John Tenniel for the first edition of the story. Sir John Tenniel (1820–1914) was the principal satirical cartoonist for Punch magazine for over fifty years and much in demand as an illustrator in Victorian Britain. At Lewis Carroll’s request, he illustrated the first edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, published by Macmillan in 1865. In 1899, Gertrude E. Thompson adapted Tenniel’s illustrations for a card game entitled ‘The New and Diverting Game of Alice in Wonderland’. These unforgettable illustrations, including the Mad Hatter, the Mock Turtle and the Queen of Hearts, among many others, are featured in these special journals.

Beautifully produced in hardback with ruled paper, foiled page edges, ribbon marker and printed endpapers, these two Alice in Wonderland journals are the perfect gift for Wonderland fans.

Jones’ Icones is a stunning six-volume manuscript containing paintings of some of the most important butterfly and moth collections at the end of the eighteenth century. It is the work of William Jones (1745–1818), a wealthy wine merchant from Chelsea who, on retirement, devoted the rest of his life to studying and painting butterflies and moths. Held in the archives of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, the volumes contain over 1,500 ink and gouache paintings representing 760 species from around the world. Work continues to this day to determine whether all the original specimens depicted still survive.

This set of three A5, softback notebooks with high-quality ruled paper makes an exquisite gift for nature-lovers and writers alike.


Butterfly Notebook Set 3 A5 ruled notebooks with stitched spines

Bodleian Library In association with Oxford University Museum of Natural History

Butterfly Notebook Set

48 ruled pp each, 210 x 148 mm 9781851245413 3 A5 ruled notebooks with stitched spines £10.99 incl VAT November 2020 In association with Oxford University Museum of Natural History

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Tolkien and Map Journals

26 Postcards from the Collections A Bodleian Library A to Z

Structured around the alphabet, this pack contains twenty-six detachable postcards, each featuring a rare or beautiful master-piece. Presented in a handsome paper binding, these attractive cards are perfect for you to display or send to friends.

An Illuminated Alphabet 26 Postcards

These twenty-six detachable postcards feature historiated initials decorated with gold leaf from medieval and renaissance manu-scripts together with hand-painted examples from early printed books. By turns exquisite, playful and unique, here you’ll find a stunning artistic example of every letter in the alphabet.

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52 pp, 165 x 120 mm 26 colour illus 9781851244041 Cards £9.99 incl VAT September 2014

52 pp, 165 x 120 mm 26 colour illus 9781851244133 Cards £9.99 incl VAT November 2014

These Bodleian Library journals showcase gorgeous illustrations from our collections on the covers. Designed to be easily portable or to fit in a small bag, each hard-cover journal is 207 x 140 mm, with 160 ruled pages of high-quality paper. Every journal is finished with a sturdy elastic band closure, ribbon marker and elastic pen holder. An expanding wallet for storing papers is also included on the inside back cover. Produced to a high standard with careful attention to finishing and details, these journals make the perfect gift for all writers and stationery lovers.


Tolkien Smaug Journal 160 ruled pp, 207 x 140 mm 9781851245277 HB £9.99 incl VAT March 2019

London Map Journal 160 ruled pp, 207 x 140 mm 9781851245222 HB £9.99 incl VAT March 2019

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Recent Highlights

Just the Job The Botany of Gin How Trades got their Chris Thorogood and Simon

Hiscock Names

Alexander Tulloch

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Baobab SCIENTIFIC NAME: Adansonia digitata FAMILY: Mallow family (Malvaceae)

DESCRIPTIoN: This extraordinary species is the most widespread of a group of trees known collectively as the baobabs. All are long-lived pachycauls – distinctive plants characterized by their distended trunks, which store water and are an adaption to survival under extremely dry conditions. During the dry season they shed their leaves. The fowers are whitish, large and heavy, growing to about 12 cm across, and are pollinated by fruit bats. The large egg-shaped fruits are initially green and later turn brown and harden.

DISTRIBuTIoN: Africa.

uSE IN GIN: The fruit of the baobab is said to confer a citrus note to gin. Its use is the perfect example of distillers becoming more adventurous in their choice of botanicals, particularly those that denote provenance from a particular region.

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Sweet orange SCIenTIFIC nAMe: Citrus x sinensis FAMILY: Rue family (Rutaceae)

DeSCRIPTIOn: The sweet orange is a small, shallow-rooted citrus tree with spiny branches that bear the familiar edible fruit (botanically classifed as a type of berry called a hesperidium that has a leathery rind with oil glands). The sweet orange group includes some of the most popular citrus fruits and many forms are cultivated, primarily for their juice, but also for seed oil, which is used in cosmetics. The blood orange is an unusual variant with particularly dark or red-streaked fesh that has been grown in the Mediterranean (especially in Spain and Italy) since the eighteenth century.

DISTRIbuTIOn: Sweet oranges are cultivated across the world in frost-free climates.

uSe In GIn: Sweet orange gives gin a zesty, refreshing taste.

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barrels or casks specifcally for the storage or transport of dry food such as grain or wheat. The second made the languages associated with barrel-making suggest that

The prevalence of surnames found in other European

barrels that served as receptacles for ale, wines and so on. the skills the cooper had to ofer were in great demand.

The ‘white’ coopers traditionally confned their activities Consider the following:

French Tonnellier

milking or for carrying water from the well. to producing the pails and buckets used on farms during

German Binder/Fassbender Dutch Kuiper

The word is a borrowing Hungarian Kádár of the Dutch kuip, ‘vat’ or Spanish Cubero ‘tub’, itself a derivation of the Russian Bondarev

Medieval Latin cōpa, ‘a tun’, Ukrainian Bondarenko Danish Bødker

‘a barrel’, which is a variant of Greek Varelas the Latin cūpa, ‘cask’ or ‘butt’. Tracing the history of the word a little further back we fnd that cūpa is directly related to Cordwainer the Greek cupellon, meaning a In Anglo-Saxon England the man who made shoes for his goblet or large drinking vessel. And both examples from clients was known as a scōhere (shoe-er) or scōwyrhta (shoe classical antiquity are, theoretically at least, linked to wright), but when the Crusades began in 1096 the days the Indo-European root *keup, ‘hollow’ or ‘curved’, and of the traditional shoemaker were numbered. Soldiers, directly related to our words ‘cup’, ‘cowl’ and even ‘cow’. crossing and recrossing Europe on their way to and from

In the ffteenth century the word ‘coop’ was also being the holy sites they were supposed to be defending, came used to describe the cage in which poultry was kept, and into contact with other cultures and brought back what by the sixteenth it was applied generally to any place of we would think of today as souvenirs. confnement. This is why we can talk even now of ‘being One of these mementoes was a kind of leather which cooped up’ when we mean we feel trapped inside a build- was far superior to anything the traditional shoemakers ing and feel the desperate need to escape. of England had seen previously. This was a material

produced in Córdoba, the capital of Moorish Spain. It became so popular with leather workers back home in

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ALSO BY THE AUTHOR

It’s All Greek: Borrowed Words and their Histories 9781851245055 illus HB £12.99

ALEXANDER TULLOCH is a Fellow of

the Chartered Institute of Linguists.

224 pp, 184 x 118 mm c.30 b&w illus 9781851245505 HB £12.99 October 2020

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What did a gongfarmer do? How is a chaperone connected to a bird of prey? What is the etymology behind cloud architect? And is there a link between secretaries and secrets?

The story behind these (and many more) job titles is rarely predictable and often fascinating. In this highly original book, Alexander Tulloch examines the etymology behind a selection of trades and professions, unearthing intriguing nuggets of historical information along the way. Here you will find explanations of common surnames, such as Spencer, Hayward and Fletcher; obsolete jobs such as pardoner, cordwainer or telegraph boy; and roles for the modern era, such as wedding planner, pundit and sky marshal.

Packed with additional etymological information and literary quotations, this book will appeal not only to linguists but also to anyone interested in the quirky twists and turns of meaning which have given us the job titles with which we are familiar today.

From its roots in ancient Greek herbal medicine, the popular spirit we now know as gin was established by the Dutch in the sixteenth century as a juniper-infused tincture to cure fevers. It gained notoriety during the London ‘gin craze’ in the eighteenth century before enjoying a recent resurgence and a profusion of new botanical flavourings.

Garnished with sumptuous illustrations depicting the plants that tell the story of this complex and iconic drink, this enticing book delves into the botany of gin from root to branch. A diverse assortment of aromatic plants from around the world have been used in the production of gin over the course of several centuries. Each combination of botanicals yields a unique flavour profile that equates to more than the sum of its parts. Understanding the different types of formulation, and the main groups of plants used therein, is central to appreciating the drink’s complexities and subtleties. As this book’s extraordinary range of featured ingredients shows, gin is a quintessentially botanical beverage with a rich history like no other.

ALSO BY CHRIS THOROGOOD

Curious Creatures on our Shores 9781851245345 illus HB £15.00

CHRIS THOROGOOD is Deputy Director

and Head of Science of Oxford Botanic

Garden and Arboretum. SIMON

HISCOCK is Director of Oxford Botanic

Garden and Arboretum.

112 pp, 210 x 148 mm 35 colour illus 9781851245536 HB £15.00 September 2020 In association with Oxford Botanic Garden

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Aesop’s Fables Illustrations by Agnes Miller Parker Translation by V.S. Vernon Jones and others

‘I am king of the beasts.’

THE LION AND THE WILD ASS A lion and a wild ass went out hunting together: the latter was

to run down the prey by his superior speed, and the former would then come up and despatch it. They met with great

success; and when it came to sharing the spoil the lion divided it all into three equal portions. ‘I will take the first,’ said he, ‘because I am king of the beasts; I will also take the second,

because, as your partner, I am entitled to half of what remains; and as for the third – well, unless you give it up to me and take yourself off pretty quick, the third, believe me, will

make you feel very sorry for yourself!’

Might makes right.

THE BOYS AND THE FROGS Some mischievous boys were playing on the edge of a pond and,

catching sight of some frogs swimming about in the shallow water, they began to amuse themselves by pelting them with

stones and they killed several of them. At last one of the frogs put his head out of the water and said, ‘Oh, stop! stop! I beg

of you: what is sport to you is death to us.’

Play for one may be death to another.

THE NORTH WIND AND THE SUN A dispute arose between the north wind and the sun, each claiming that he was stronger than the other. At last they

agreed to try their powers upon a traveller, to see which could soonest strip him of his cloak. The north wind had the first

try; gathering up all his force for the attack, he came whirling

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A man and his wife had the good fortune to possess a goose which laid a golden egg every day. Lucky though they were, they soon began to think they were not getting rich fast enough and, imagining the bird must be made of gold inside, they decided

to kill it in order to secure the whole store of precious metal at once. But when they cut it open they found it was just like any other goose. Thus they neither got rich all at once, as they had

‘Give me a single grain of corn before all the jewels in the world.’

hoped, nor enjoyed any longer the daily addition to their wealth.

Much wants more and loses all.

THE CAT AND THE MICE There was once a house that was overrun with mice. A cat heard of this and said to herself, ‘That’s the place for me.’ Off she went and took up her quarters in the house, and caught the mice one by one and ate them. At last the mice could stand it no longer,

and they determined to take to their holes and stay there. ‘That’s awkward,’ said the cat to herself. ‘The only thing to do is to coax them out by a trick.’ So she considered a while, and then climbed

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THE COCK AND THE JEWEL A cock, scratching the ground for something to eat, turned up a jewel that had by chance been dropped there. ‘Ho!’ said he.

‘A fine thing you are, no doubt and, had your owner found you, great would his joy have been. But for me, give me a single grain

of corn before all the jewels in the world.’

Precious things are for those who prize them.

THE GOOSE THAT LAID THE GOLDEN EGGS

Reynard the Fox Anne Louise Avery

‘Listen as the Fox slowly and deftly unbinds his whole pack of tricks – his flattery and fine words, his warm and sugary russet charm, his bold-faced blandishments. He has brought forth a spool of raw lies and spun them into a glittering web of truth to trap them all. Every last one of them.’

ALSO OF INTEREST

Sindbad the Sailor & Other Stories from the Arabian Nights

lllustrations by Edmund Dulac, translation by Laurence Housman, introduction by Marina Warner 9781851245017 illus HB £30.00

208 pp, 242 x 190 mm 35 b&w illus 9781851245376 HB £30.00 November 2020


For twenty-five centuries, the animal stories which go by the name of Aesop’s Fables have amused and instructed generations of children and adults alike. They are still as fresh and poignant today as they were to the ancient Greeks who composed them. This beautifully illustrated edition contains some of the best-loved fables, including the Boy who Cried Wolf, the Lion and the Mouse, the Goose that Laid the Golden Egg, the Hare and the Tortoise, and The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse alongside many of the lesser-known tales.

These timeless stories are illustrated with thirty-seven wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker (1895–1980), one of the greatest British wood engraving artists of the twentieth century. Parker was influenced by the art of Wyndham Lewis and the Cubist and Vorti-cist movements, which flourished in the period between the wars. Her distinctive work is strikingly stylized and deceptively simple. Commissioned in the 1930s by the fine press publisher, Gregynog Press, for their edition of the work, these exquisite wood engravings inspired by the fables are among Parker’s finest.

Reynard – a subversive, dashing, anarchic, aristocratic, witty fox from the watery lowlands of medieval East Flanders – is in trouble. He has been summoned to the court of King Noble the Lion, charged with all manner of crimes and misdemeanours. How will he pit his wits against his accusers – greedy Bruin the Bear, arrogant Tybert the Cat and dark and dangerous Isengrim the Wolf – to escape the gallows?

Reynard was once the most popular and beloved character in European folklore, as familiar as Robin Hood, King Arthur or Cinderella. His character spoke eloquently for the unvoiced and disenfranchised, but also amused and delighted the elite, capturing hearts and minds across borders and societal classes for centuries.

Based on William Caxton’s bestselling 1481 English translation from the Middle Dutch, but expanded with new interpretations, innova-tive language and characterization, this edition is an imaginative retelling of the Reynard story. With its themes of protest, resistance and duplicity fronted by a personable, anti-heroic Fox making his way in a dangerous and cruel world, this gripping tale is as relevant and controversial today as it was in the fifteenth century.

This is marvellously spirited and adroit storytelling and an exciting example of innovative translation. Anne Louise Avery communicates throughout sheer pleasure in the material and luxuriates in its lexical exuberance. Adding mischievous contemporary twists, she has wonderfully refreshed and revivified the medieval collection and shows how these traditional animal fables, with their large and lively cast of characters and their wicked and seductive protagonist, have lost none of their truth-telling power. – Marina Warner

ANNE LOUISE AVERY is a writer and art

historian based in Oxford.

480 pp, 200 x 145 mm 10 b&w illus 9781851245550 HB £20.00 October 2020



That’s the Ticket Secrets of the for Soup! Great Ocean Victorian Views on Liners Vocabulary as Told in the John G. Sayers Pages of Punch

David Crystal

He issues a severe warning, recalling Impressions of Theophrastus Such, by George Eliot, which had been published the year before. This was a collection of social commentaries written in the voice of a fctional male philosopher. One of the essays was headed ‘Debasing the moral currency’, by which s/he meant: ‘lowering the value of every inspiring fact and tradition so that it will command less and less of the spiritual products.’ The Punch writer must have read it, as one of Such’s targets was ‘a certain style of young lady, who checks our tender admiration with rouge and henna and all the blazonry of an extravagant expenditure, with slang and bold brusquerie [bluntness] intended to signify her emancipated view of things’. A wrangler was (and still is) a student taking the mathematical tripos at Cambridge University who gains a frst-class degree; the name derives from the older sense of ‘debater’.

DE BAS I NG TH E VE RBAL CU RRE NCY (A long way) after Theophrastus Such

‘On 2nd inst., at the —— Street Police Ofce, a gentlemanly-looking young man, who refused his name, was fned ten shillings and costs for using bad language.’ MORAL. Now, all you nice young Ladies, Be warned by this, I pray; Whoso murders the Queen’s English, For it will have to pay.

Respect the words your mothers Have watered with their tears, And against your slangy brothers Shut tight your rosy ears.

Go and win Wranglers’ places, E NG L ISH AS SH E I S SPOKE ! !

Future D uke. ‘ What a re you goi n’ to do this morni n’, eh? ’ Go up in, and for, degrees; Future Earl . ‘O h I dunno. Rot a b out, I s’pose, as usual.’

Vol . 77, 1880, p. 71 Future Earl . ‘Wel l, what el se is t here to do, you rot ter? ’

But no more slangy phrases, Dear young Ladies! if you please. Future D uke. ‘ Oh, but I s ay, tha t’s so rotten.’

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We Are Not Amused: Victorian Views on Pronunciation as Told in the Pages of Punch

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DAVID CRYSTAL is a writer, editor, lecturer and broadcaster on language. His books include Sounds Appealing: The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation, Profile, 2018, and Let’s Talk: How English Conversation Works, OUP, 2020.

120 pp, 210 x 161 mm 34 b&w illus 9781851245529 HB £14.99 October 2020


The vocabulary of past times, no longer used in English, is always fascinating, especially when we see how it was pilloried by the satirists of the day.

Here we have Victorian high and low society, with its fashionable and unfashionable slang, its class awareness and the jargon of steam engines, motor cars and other products of the Industrial Revolution. Then as now, people had strong feelings about the flood of new words entering English. Swearing, new street names and the many borrowings from French provoked continual irritation and mockery, as did the Americanisms increasingly encountered in the British press.

In this intriguing collection, David Crystal has pored through the pages of the satirical magazine Punch between its first issue in 1841 and the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, and extracted the articles and cartoons that poked fun at the jargon of the day, adding a commentary on the context of the times and informative glossaries. In doing so he reveals how many present-day feelings about words have their origins over a century ago.

Before the advent of commercial transatlantic flights in the early 1950s, the only way to travel between continents was by sea. During the golden age of ocean liners, between the late nineteenth century and the Second World War, shipping companies ensured their vessels were a home away from home, providing entertainment, dining, sleeping quarters and smoking lounges to accommodate their passengers for voyages that could last as long as three months.

Secrets of the Great Ocean Liners leads the reader through each of the stages – and secrets – of ocean liner travel, from booking a ticket and choosing a cabin to shore excursions, dining, on-board games, social events, romances and disembarking on arrival. Additional chapters disclose wartime voyages and disasters at sea.

The shipping companies produced glamorous brochures, sailing schedules, voyage logs, passenger lists, postcards and menus, all of which help us to savour the challenges, etiquette and luxury of ocean liner travel. Diaries, letters and journals written on board also reveal a host of behind-the-scenes secrets and fascinating insights into the experience of travelling by sea. This book dives into a vast, unique collection to reveal the scandals, glamour, challenges and tragedies of ocean liner travel.


JOHN G. SAYERS is a collector

and frequent contributor of articles

on ocean liners and other ephemera

to antique and collector publications

in the UK, USA and Canada. The

Sayers Collection now resides in

the John Johnson Collection at the

Bodleian Library.

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Temple of ScienceThe Pre-Raphaelites and Oxford University Museum of Natural History

John Holmes

Built between 1855 and 1860, Oxford University Museum of Natural History is the extraordinary result of close collaboration between artists and scientists. Inspired by John Ruskin, the architect Benjamin Woodward and the Oxford scientists worked with leading Pre-Raphaelite artists on the design and decoration of the building. The decorative art was modelled on the Pre-Raphaelite principle of meticulous observation of nature, itself indebted to science, while individual artists designed architectural details and carved portrait statues of influential scientists. The entire structure was an experiment in using architecture and art to communicate natural history, modern science and natural theology.

Temple of Science sets out the history of the campaign to build the museum before taking the reader on a tour of art in the museum itself. It looks at the facade and the central court, with their beautiful natural history carvings and marble columns illustrating different geological strata, and at the pantheon of scientists. Together they form the world’s finest collection of Pre-Raphaelite sculpture. The story of one of the most remarkable collaborations between scientists and artists in European art is told here with lavish illustrations.

JOHN HOLMES is Professor of Victorian

Literature and Culture at the University

of Birmingham.

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his close friend Collins. Millais paintedthe background to Te Woodman’s Daughtera few miles outside the city in WythamWoods – now the site of the University’sforestry research programme – and thewindow for Mariana in Merton CollegeChapel. Collins painted the fowers forConvent Toughts (fgure 10) from plantsin the garden of Tomas Combe, printerto the University, who lived on site at theClarendon Press in the Oxford suburb ofJericho. Combe (fgure 11) became anothermajor Pre-Raphaelite patron, buying upConvent Toughts, Millais’s Te Return ofthe Dove to the Ark and Hunt’s A ConvertedBritish Family Sheltering a Christian Missionaryfrom the Persecution of the Druids, which hadbeen painted outdoors in Homerton on theoutskirts of London in 1849 while Millaiswas painting at Shotover. Tese threepaintings would go on to form the coreof the Ashmolean Museum’s impressivePre-Raphaelite collection.26

Combe was a dedicated adherent of theOxford Movement. His collection showshow conducive Pre-Raphaelite aestheticsand subject matter were to High ChurchAnglicans. It would soon include the most famous of all Pre-Raphaelite sacredpaintings, Hunt’s Te Light of the World, now in Keble College Chapel.27 Atthe same time, in their uncompromising attention to detail in the study of thephysical world, the paintings in Combe’s collection and the others painted byMillais in and around Oxford in 1849 and 1850 epitomize the scientifc aspectof the Pre-Raphaelite project. Like the Oxford scientists, the Pre-Raphaelitessaw no confict in principle between science and religion. Hunt, Millais andCollins put science at the service of religion in their paintings, just as Acland,Strickland and their colleagues did in their teaching.

As well as comprehending nature within a Christian worldview, thePre-Raphaelites and the Oxford scientists shared the same basic conceptionof how science worked. Stephens’s claim that science proceeds by ‘experiment

FIGURE 10 opposite Charles Collins, Convent Thoughts, 1851, painted partly in the garden of University printer Thomas Combe.

FIGURE 11 above William Holman Hunt, Thomas Combe, 1860. A portrait of the University printer and major patron of the Pre-Raphaelites in Oxford.

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who could set their vision in stone. In Benjamin Woodward (fgure 19) theyfound the architect they needed. Woodward was the creative partner withinDeane & Woodward. Te senior partner was Sir Tomas Deane, who hadbeen friends with Acland since the late 1830s.64 He was well connected, buthe was already in his sixties by this point and had begun to take a back seat.In practice, the frm was now run by the two junior partners. Woodward,who had joined the frm in 1846, was the chief designer while Deane’s son,Tomas Newenham Deane, handled the business side.

A careful student of Ruskin’s ideas, Woodward was one of the mostimaginative architects of the Gothic Revival. He was a quiet but impressive

FIGURE 19 above Alexander Munro, Benjamin Woodward, 1861. A memorial to the architect of the Oxford University Museum.

FIGURE 20 opposite The interior of the Museum Building at Trinity College Dublin, 1854–60, designed and built by Deane & Woodward. Like the Oxford University Museum, it includes columns in various marbles topped with natural history carvings.

TownPrints & Drawings of Britain before 1800

Bernard Nurse

Provincial towns in Britain grew in size and importance in the eighteenth century. Ports such as Glasgow and Liverpool greatly expanded, while industrial centres such as Birmingham and Manchester flourished. Market towns outside London developed as commercial centres or as destinations offering spa treatments as in Bath, horse racing in Newmarket or naval services in Portsmouth.

Containing over 100 images of towns in England, Wales and Scotland, this book draws on the extensive Gough Collection in the Bodleian Library. Contemporary prints and drawings provide a powerful visual record of the development of the town in this period, and finely drawn prospects and maps – made with greater accuracy than ever before – reveal their early development.

This book also includes perceptive observations from the journals and letters of collector Richard Gough (1735–1809), who travelled throughout the country on the cusp of the industrial age.

BERNARD NURSE is the former

Librarian of the Society of Antiquaries

of London.

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The North of England stretches from the Scottish border to Cheshire and Yorkshire. Before the middle of the seventeenth century, growth was mostly in the rural areas where agriculture had been assisted by the enclosure of common fields and manufacture was essentially domestic. The older centres such as Durham and Beverley were generally in decline and only York and Newcastle are estimated to have had more than 10,000 inhabitants; in Newcastle seventeenth-century evidence of plague and considerable poverty has been found. Change was slow in many parts, hampered by the upland countryside and poor communications. In other areas urban development gathered pace towards the end of the eighteenth century, fuelled by the industrial revolution; and the foundations were laid for more spectacular growth in succeeding years.

In particular Liverpool and Manchester became the largest provincial towns in England by 1801. Liverpool benefited from trade with the British colonies in North America and one of the main imports, cotton, came to be extensively processed in factories around Manchester. Improvements to navigation along the rivers Mersey and Irwell improved transport by water. Dramatic but short-lived growth took place on the coast north of Liverpool in Cumbria. In Whitehaven, the earliest of the new towns was founded by the enterprising Lowther family, the powerful principal landowners.

Cloth-making towns in the West Riding of Yorkshire did not develop as quickly as towns in Lancashire. Leeds was one exception, where the population grew rapidly, as it did in Sheffield, which specialized in cutlery and tool-making. On the coast, seaports responded to the expanding North Sea economy and the demand for abundant and accessible coal, especially from the important London market. Mining allowed towns in County Durham to expand; whaling and fishing industries flourished; the coal trade and shipbuilding developed around Tyneside.

Those towns in areas without significant industries, such as much of East Yorkshire, remained stable or declined. From being one of the largest provincial towns in England in 1700, by the end of the century York was little more than half the size of Newcastle. The corporation and craft guilds restricted new enterprises and poverty was widespread. Just as York lost trade to Hull, another former regional centre, Chester on the river Dee lost out to Liverpool as the most important port in the north-west. The continuous silting of the river made navigation by ocean-going vessels difficult compared to that on the Mersey, where there were good harbour facilities at Liverpool.Walton, 2000, pp. 111–31.

I.

North of England

19. South-west prospect of the Cathedral Church of York, by Joseph Baker, engraved by Francois Vivares, 1750. Gough Maps 34 fol. 9.18. Plan of the city of York, surveyed by Peter Chassereau, published by John Rocque, 1750. Gough Maps Yorkshire 29.

REVISED EDITION

A Brief History of the Bodleian Library Mary Clapinson

In 1598, at the age of fift y-three , Thomas Bodley was still ambitious to seek infuence in another sphere in which to ‘doe the true part of a proftable member of the State’,1 as he put it in

his autobiography. He rightly reckoned that his scholarly and linguistic background and his diplomatic experience would be useful assets, and we know that he had suffcient means to fnance the enterprise, for he had not only inherited a modest fortune from his father but had also married a rich widow. His wife Ann’s frst husband, John Ball, a wealthy merchant and mayor of Totnes in Devon, had died in March 1586, leaving her with seven children (the eldest of whom was only twelve) and a considerable fortune amassed through trade with northern France. Bodley married Ann Ball in July 1586, and it was to a large extent her fortune that enabled him to turn his attention to his old university and in particular to the restoration of its library ‘which then in every part lay ruined and wast[e]’.2 Later historians were to point out the irony of a library so closely associated in its early years with Protestant theology having been founded with money made by selling pilchards to Catholic France.

Writing to the vice-chancellor in February 1598, Bodley offered to rectify this sorry state of affairs, and ‘to take the charge and cost’3 of

Fig. 9 The Divinity School from William Combe, A History of the University of Oxford (1814).

chapter 2

The early years, 1602–1652

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… indispensable to researchers, students, and general readers. – Library & Information History

MARY CLAPINSON was on the staff of

the Western Manuscript Department

in the Bodleian Library for thirty-five

years. Appointed Keeper of Western

Manuscripts in 1986, she was the

first woman to hold a Keepership in

the Bodleian. She is a Fellow of the

Society of Antiquaries and of the

Royal Historical Society, and Emeritus

Fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford, her

undergraduate college.

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How did a library founded over 400 years ago grow to become the world-renowned institution it is today, home to over thirteen million items?

From its foundation by Sir Thomas Bodley in 1598 to the opening of the Weston Library in 2015, this illustrated account shows how the Library’s history was involved with the British monarchy and political events throughout the centuries. The history of the Library is also a history of collectors and collections, and this book traces the story of major donations and purchases, making use of the Library’s own substantial archives to show how it came to house key items such as early confirmations of Magna Carta, Shakespeare’s First Folio and the manuscript of Jane Austen’s earliest writings, among many others.

Beautifully illustrated with prints, portraits, manuscripts and archival material, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of libraries and collections.

This brief history of Europe’s oldest academic library traces its origins in the thirteenth century, when a new type of community of scholars was first being set up, through to the present day and its multiple functions as a working college library, a unique resource for researchers and a delight for curious visitors.

Featuring a timeline and a plan of the college, this book will be of interest to historians, alumni and tourists alike.

Saved for posterity by religious scholarship, intellectual rivalry and political ambition, these extraordinary collections also detail the consumption and circulation of knowledge across the centu-ries, forming a social and cultural history of objects moved across borders, from person to person. Together, they offer a fascinating journey through Jewish intellectual and social history from the tenth to the twentieth century.

Merton College Library An Illustrated History

Julia C. Walworth

century, the new building formed a quadrangle, known until the eighteenth century as the ‘“Little” Quadrangle’. The corner of this quadrangle nearest the hall and the sacristy was anchored by the stone-built muniment tower (or treasury), erected in the late thirteenth century to keep valuables and the even more precious charters and administrative documents relating to the college’s property (on which the college’s very existence depended). On the opposite side of the newly formed quadrangle, the intersection of the two wings of

the library provided a second anchor, forming an axis of corporate treasure, both literal and intellectual. Residential rooms for fellows occupied connecting wings and the ground floor of the library.

Each of the two library wings had a series of single windows on either side running the length of the room, and the larger space at the junction of the two wings was lit by much taller double windows. Furnishing of the library continued for more than a decade. The west wing was furnished first, and then

The surviving double-sided lectern desks in the church of St Walburga in Zutphen in the netherlands date from the mid-sixteenth century but provide an idea of the appearance of the double-sided merton desks some 200 years earlier.

The main imagery in the medieval library windows is found in the colourful roundels set into grisaille glass. The visual references to St John the baptist through the agnus dei (lamb of god) link the library symbolically to the nearby college chapel and evoke the college community as a whole. Perhaps the reference to St John was also a subtle way of acknowledging John bloxham, who had participated in planning the library and was elected warden in 1375.

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Jewish Treasures from Oxford Libraries Edited by Rebecca Abrams and César Merchán-Hamann

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Copiously illustrated from the world-renowned John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera and featuring work by influential illustrators John Hassall and Dudley Hardy, this attractive book invites us to consider both the intended and unintended messages of the advertisements of the past.

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Vintage AdvertisingAn A to Z

Julie Anne Lambert

Vintage Advertising: An A to Z takes a fresh look at historical advertis-ing through a series of thematic and chronological juxtapositions. Richly illustrated from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera at the Bodleian Library, this book features a range of topics from Art to Zeitgeist, showcasing how nineteenth- and early twentieth-century advertisements often capture the spirit of their age and can be rich repositories of information about our past.

144 pp, 196 x 196 mm109 colour illus9781851245406PB with flaps £15.00April 2020

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CCATALOGUESCatalogues (which could be single sheets, leafets or booklets) grew in importance as industrial expansion presented the consumer with an increasing choice of products. Illustration was essential, description alone being insufcient to diferentiate models of cookers, grates, lawn mowers, knives, sewing machines, hats etc.

Clothing catalogues, which usually portray the wearer, are among the most attractive, since they often indicate the domestic setting, pursuits, accoutrements and attitude of the targeted clientele.

The Fred Watts & Co. catalogue for 1896–1897 epitomizes late-Victorian upper-class privilege. It includes a very limited selection of clothes for girls but focuses on boys, youths, men and servants’ livery. Watts portrays his young male clientele in school wear for Eton and Rugby, sailor suits, formal dress and suits which emulate adult attire. The sketchy backgrounds throughout show the trappings of an afuent lifestyle. Unexpectedly among these is a tortoise: these exotic domestic pets were new in Britain.

The Art of AdvertisingJulie Anne LambertWith contributions by Michael Twyman, Lynda Mugglestone, Helen Clifford, Ashley Jacksonand David Tomkins

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spectre at the feast with cocoa as a redemptive force for good. In fgure 2.11, another visual narrative depicts a temporal sequence from childhood to old age, united by pleasurable images of consumption, in a further pictorial embodiment of the rule of three (three vignettes, three cups of Cadbury’s cocoa). Seen vertically, however, the advertisement provides a visual metaphor in which cocoa is meaningfully underpinned by its ‘scientifc’ foundations. The visual rhetoric of a bar chart hence suggests objective rather than subjective evaluation while tactical citations from the Lancet and Health magazine add scientifc authority for the claims that are advanced.

Vocabulary operates in equally tactical ways. Science (‘nitrogen’, ‘carbon’) andnutrition (‘food-value’, ‘fesh-forming’, alongside the impressive-sounding ‘staminalenergy’) are prominent, as is the diction of ‘vigour’ and ‘new life’. Cocoa becomes anecessity rather than a luxury, a vital building block of life and superior, as the barchart suggests, to meat, eggs and bread. The carefully disinterested and factual tone(‘In addition, it is interesting to fnd that One Shillingsworth of CADBURY’S COCOAcontains as much nourishment as can be obtained for Three Shillings spent on some ofthe best Meat Extracts’) is, in reality, anything but.

2.10 It is uncommon for povertyto be portrayed as starkly forcommercial purposes as in thisadvertisement in which F. Allen& Sons exploit the associationof cocoa with the TemperanceMovement (notably advocatedby the founder of Rowntree’schocolate, the Quaker HenryRowntree).

Chromolithography (c.1884),116 × 195 mm. JJ Cocoa, Chocolateand Confectionery 1 (4b)

2.11 Although chocolate barswere produced commerciallyfrom 1847, cocoa as a beverageretained its popularity. The versostresses that Cadbury’s cocoa isfree from alkali, which is present(it is claimed) in Dutch cocoa.

Chromolithography (1896),147 × 194 mm. JJ Cocoa, Chocolateand Confectionery 1 (19)

BirdsAn Anthology

Edited by Jaqueline MitchellWith illustrations by Eric Fitch Daglish

This anthology brings together poetry and prose in celebrationof birds. It records their behaviour, flight, song and migration, the changes across the seasons and in different habitats – in woodland and pasture, on river, shoreline and at sea – and our own interaction with them.

272 pp, 198 x 129 mm25 b&w illus9781851245291HB £16.99June 2020

The Domestic HerbalPlants for the Home in the Seventeenth Century

Margaret Willes

232 pp, 210 x 161 mmc.60 colour illus9781851245130HB £25.00June 2020

Featuring exquisite coloured illustrations from John Gerard’s herbal of 1597 as well as prints, archival material and manuscripts, this book provides an intriguing and original focus on the domestic history of Stuart England.

Care of Clothes

[The housewife] ought to cloath [her family] outwardly & inwardly;outwardly for defence from the cold and comelinesse to the person; andinwardly, for cleanlinesse and neatnesse of the skinne.

Gervase Markham, The English Huswife, 1623

T he seventeenth-century garden and small plots of land couldprovide two important materials for clothing: hemp and fax.Hemp is a variety of the Cannabis sativa plant, a native of central

and western Asia that was brought to Europe by the Goths in the earlyMiddle Ages. They apparently valued the plant’s narcotic properties, butthese became weakened when grown in western Europe, so that ratherthan the leaves being smoked, the seeds and roots were used for medicines.Culpeper attributed hemp to Saturn, giving a list of various applications,including as a remedy against jaundice, gout and burns. Its principal use,however, was for clothing, together or separately with fax, a member ofthe genus Linum. Flax is frst recorded being cultivated in the lands of theFertile Crescent, but the boost for the crop came in the eighth century,when Charlemagne promoted its qualities both for hygiene as the materiallinen, and for health with linseed oil.

Hemp and hops from the Tudor Pattern Book, accompanied by a vase of pinks. Theproduction of hemp, along with fax, for clothing was an important industry in theseventeenth century.

The Making of Oxford Handel’s Messiah Gardens, Andrew Gant Libraries &

Museums

Invention of Wonderland

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HANDEL’S PERFORMERS AND PERFORMANCES

Te popular success of the Dublin performances was not repeated in

London, at least not initially. A signifcant factor in the cool reception was

the ongoing squeamishness about singing the sacred to the kind of music

more associated with the opera than the church. Opponents particularly

objected to Holy Writ being sung in the secular setting of a theatre, but it

was thought equally inappropriate to sing oratorios in church.

Jennens captured the point in his usual testy fashion: ‘What adds to my

Chagrin is, that if he makes his Oratorio ever so perfect, there is a clamour

about Town, said to arise from the B[isho]ps, against performing it.’1

Handel leased the Covent Garden theatre for a season of oratorios in Lent

1742/3: Samson, L’Allegro and the Ode on St Cecilia’s Day; then, advertised

for 23 March, ‘A New Sacred Oratorio. With a Concerto on the Organ. And a

Solo on the Violin by Mr. Dubourg’.2 Jennens reported:

Messiah was perform’d last night, & will be again to morrow, notwithstanding

the clamour rais’d against it, which has only occasion’d it being advertis’d

without it’s Name; a Farce, which gives me as much ofence as anything

The beautiful theatre in Covent Garden, London, opened by John Rich in 1737, where Handel often performed Messiah. This view was painted shortly before the building was destroyed by fre in 1808.

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The Making of Lewis Carroll’s Alice and the

Peter Hunt

This attractive and ingeniously illustrated little volume … will add much enjoyment to reading and thinking about this remarkable book. – Kimberley Reynolds, Newcastle University

128 pp, 210 x 170 mm 67 colour illus 9781851245321 PB with flaps £15.00 June 2020


Richly illustrated with manuscripts, portraits, Sir John Tenniel’s original line drawings and contemporary photographs, this is a fresh look at two remarkable stories, which takes us on a guided tour from the treacle wells of Victorian Oxford through an astonishing world of politics, philosophy, humour – and nightmare.

Placing Handel’s best-known work in the context of its times, this vivid account charts the composer’s working relationship with his librettist, the gifted but demanding Charles Jennens, and looks at Handel’s varied and evolving company of singers together with his royal patronage.

In association with Oxford University Museum of Natural History

Temple of Science The Pre-Raphaelites and Oxford University Museum of Natural History John Holmes

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Curious Creatures on our Shores Chris Thorogood

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The Botany of Gin Chris Thorogood and Simon Hiscock 112 pp, 210 x 148 mm 35 colour illus 9781851245536 HB £15.00

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Oxford Botanic Garden A Guide Simon Hiscock and Chris Thorogood

With photographs by Alexandra Davies

80 pp, 240 x 180 mm 60 colour illus 9781851245208 PB with flaps £8.00

Oxford Botanic Garden & Arboretum A Brief History Stephen A. Harris


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Jane Austen: Illustrated Quotations

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Volume the First A Facsimile

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Scholars, Poets and Radicals Discovering Forgotten Lives in the

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Roy Strong Self-Portrait as a Young Man

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Paintings from Mughal India Andrew Topsfield

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Wilfred Owen An Illustrated Life

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A Sanskrit Treasury A Compendium of Literature from the

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If England Were Invaded William Le Queux, Introduction Mike

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Through the Lens of Janet Stone

Portraits, 1953–1979 Ian Archie Beck, Foreword Alan Bennett

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Armenia Masterpieces from an Enduring Culture

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Korean Treasures: Volume 1 Rare Books, Manuscripts and

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John Fuller and the Sycamore Press

A Bibliographic History Compiled & Edited Ryan Roberts

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An Exile on Planet Earth Articles and Reflections

Brian Aldiss 9781851243730 HB £19.99

Georgia A Cultural Journey through the

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Illuminating the Life of Buddha An Illustrated Chanting Book from

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St Margaret’s Gospel-book The Favourite Book of an

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Mozart Compiled Albi Rosenthal & Peter Ward

Jones 9781851240234 illus PB £6.50

Islamic Maps Yossef Rapoport

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Art of the Islands Celtic, Pictish, Anglo-Saxon and Viking

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The Romance of the Middle Ages

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Lost Maps of the Caliphs Drawing the World in Eleventh-

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Making Medieval Manuscripts Christopher de Hamel

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Portraits of the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth

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Ada Lovelace The Making of a Computer Scientist Christopher Hollings, Ursula Martin

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The Selden Map of China A New Understanding of the Ming

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The Ormesby Psalter Patrons and Artists in Medieval East

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London Prints & Drawings before 1800

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What Have Plants Ever Done for Us?

Western Civilization in Fifty Plants Stephen Harris

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Treasures from the Map Room A Journey through the Bodleian

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Babel Adventures in Translation

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Pocket Magna Carta 1217 Text and Translation

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Poems on Contemporary Events

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Manifold Greatness The Making of the King James Bible

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Provenance Research in Book History

A Handbook David Pearson

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Magna Carta Origins and Legacy

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Anglicanus ortus A Verse Herbal of the Twelfth Century

Henry of Huntingdon, Edited & Translated Winston Black

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John Aubrey and the Advancement of Learning

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Martin Lister and his Remarkable Daughters

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The Life of Anthony Wood in His Own Words

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Volcanoes Encounters through the Ages

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De uiris illustribus / On Famous Men

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Peter of Cornwall’s Book of Revelations

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Napoleon and the Invasion of Britain

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Petrograd, 1917 Witnesses to the Russian Revolution

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Staging History 1780–1840

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An Englishwoman in California The Letters of Catherine

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Revolution! Sayings of Vladimir Lenin

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A Month at the Front The Diary of an Unknown Soldier

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Images of the Berlin Wall Introduction Andrew Roberts

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