Product Description: This is a revised edition of the indispensable guide to the great collections of the British Library. Illustrated throughout in colour, it is the perfect introduction to some of the world’s most magnificent books and manuscripts, from The Lindisfarne Gospels to Shakespeare’s First Folio, The Diamond Sutra, and The Gutenberg Bible...read more

Product Description: The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (The strife of love in a dream) is generally considered to be the finest illustrated book of the Renaissance. Its splendid woodcuts can stand on their own, the printing (by Aldus Manutius) is remarkably handsome, and the text—a unique compound of Italian and Latin—remains open to fascinating interpretations, both worldly and esoteric...read more

Product Description: Long after his reputation has faded, Edward Young (1683–1765) lives on in unattributed quotations ("Procrastination is the Thief of Time"). If his name is known today, it is largely because William Blake created a series of engraved images to frame his most famous poem, Night Thoughts, a nocturnal meditation on death and immortality...read more

Product Description: The keen desire for fine books, researched, edited and celebrated for their intrinsic artistic and emotional value should never die. The Book serenely considers the future, not only as a simple source of knowledge or an embodiment of a certain lifestyle but as the lifestyle itself...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Nicolas Barker, OBE FBA, has made many contributions to the study of the book. In celebration of his 70th birthday, the British Library has published a selection of his essays that show the range of his interests in a number of related fields: books and texts; books and people; typography and early printing; the history of the book; bookselling; and forgery...read more

Product Description: Based on lectures given at the William Andrews Clark Library in 1986-87, these essays discuss the many aspects of the history of the book, with a range of topics related to manuscripts as well as books. This is the second title in "The British Library Studies in the History of the Book" series...read more

Product Description: A selection of twenty-seven botanical prints from the Hortus Eystettensis. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The forgeries of Thomas James Wise, disclosed in 1934 in John Carter and Graham Pollard's "An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets," is perhaps the most notorious literary scandal of this century. The sensational exposure of Wise led to further discoveries, most notably that he had acted not alone but in collusion with Harry Buxton Forman, the distinguished editor of Keats and Shelley...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Based on lectures given at the William Andrews Clark Library in 1986-87, these essays discuss the many aspects of the history of the book, with a range of topics related to manuscripts as well as books. This is the second title in "The British Library Studies in the History of the Book" series...read more

Product Description: This work recounts the story of the 25 special hand-coloured copies of the "Hortus Eystettensis" - a picture book of the shrubs and flowering plants contained in the garden of the Prince Bishop of Eichstatt in the early-17th century.

Product Description: This much-acclaimed work was first published in 1985 in an extremely limited edition of something under 200 copies. The first edition nonetheless sold out rapidly, and the reviewers were virtually universal in their recommendations that a new edition be published at a more accessible price, and thereby satisfy the additional demands on the marketplace...read more

Product Description: It was customary, in the 19th century, for short literary works poems, essays, etc. to appear in pamphlet form. This monograph an extended bibliographic essay, in effect studies the publishing history of works by the Brownings, Kipling, Dickens, Ruskin, Rossetti, et al...read more