The Oxford University Press and the spread of learning, 1478-1978: An illustrated history

BARKER, Nicolas

Clarendon Press

First edition. Appleton no.380 . The best biography of Morison. 566 pages and 16 illustrations. cloth, dust jacket.. thick 8vo..

Stanley Morison

Computers & Technology

Graphics & Design

Harvard University Press

Biographies & Memoirs

Second printing of first edition. Winner of the 1995 International Premio Felice Feiciano for 1993-1994 and with a wrap-around label announcing this fact surrounding dust jacket. An excellent and beautifully illustrated study of the garden of the Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt, which was the first to contain all the shrubs and flowering plants known at that time, including imports from the Orient and Americas. In 1613, the Prince-Bishop commissioned botanist and apothecary Basilius Besler to create a monumental picture book recording all the species in his garden. The author of this volume records the history of this remarkable publishing enterprise. Exquisite color illustrations, including fifty superb, full page reproductions of Besler's original book. vii, i , 80 pages, with an additional 80 pages of plates. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. folio.

Hortus Eystettensis: Basilius Besler's Great Botanical Book

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

The British Library

Treasures of the British Library

Antiques & Collectibles

BRITISH LIBRARY (ENGLAND)

Nicolas Barker, OBE, FBA has made many distinguished contributions to the study of the book over the past forty years. In celebration of his seventieth birthday the British Library is publishing a selection of his occasional 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. None of these essays has previously been reprinted and collectively they offer a series of authoritative insights into fascinating and complex questions raised by various aspects of the book as physical and cultural artefact. The collection is prefaced by an Introduction by Alan Bell, former librarian of the London Library.

Form and Meaning in the History of the Book (The British Library Studies in the History of the Book)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

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. Some of the most famous of all documents, such as Magna Carta, have their own crucial place in history, while among the many thousands of manuscripts are to be found the earliest versions of the best-known works of English literature, from Beowulf to Alice’s Adventures Underground and Finnegan’s Wake. This handsome volume also covers some of the other items to be found within the collections, including papyri, historical maps, prints, photographs, sound recordings, and printed books from the earliest to the most recently produced. This is the definitive story of the collections, stunningly illustrated with over 40 colour and 190 black-and-white illustrations. Country Life says of Treasures of the British Library: "Beautifully illustrated, one could hardly have hoped for a better-conceived book."

Arts & Photography

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

British Library

Surveys the massive fifteen-million-item collection of the British Library, a collection that spans almost three thousand years of human creativity

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

Hortus Eystettensis was published in 1613 to document a garden created by the Prince-Bishop of EichstStt which contained all the shrubs and flowering plants known at the time; 367 plates illustrate more than 1,000 species. It was printed from copper engravings in a very large format, and a few of the copies (no more than 25) were printed on special paper and individually hand-colored by teams of illuminators. One of these priceless volumes is owned by the British Library; and Barker, former deputy keeper there, set out to find the extant colored copies, compare them, and establish the full history of this monumental book. The text is accompanied by 80 full-page reproductions which, even in this oversize volume (12x15"), are only half the size of the originals, and comparative details from the different copies. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Hortus Eystettensis: The Bishop's Garden and Besler's Magnificent Book

Harry N. Abrams

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. This new edition meets that need. This second edition is a substantially new work. It has been completely revised throughout, in the light both of the author's subsequent research and discoveries and of the reviewers' observations. It contains much additional new matter. The new illustrations reproduce setting copy, in the autograph of Marcus Musurus, of the Address to the Reader in the 1498 Aristophanes

Aldus Manutius and the Development of Greek Script and Type in the 15th Century

Business & Money

Fordham University Press

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by BARKER, Nicolas. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by BARKER, Nicolas