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Russian Books from the Bodleian's Pre-1920 Catalogue

Reprint of classic handbook first published in 1960, with the addition of two recent discoveries, one a letter in the handwriting of Princess (later Queen) Elizabeth. Examples of letter forms of Renaissance scribes that have had a vital bearing on the alphabets of today. Distributed by Woodstocker Books.

Humanistic Script of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (Bodleian Picture Books)

Fairbank, A. J.

Reprints a World War Two training pamphlet

Over There: Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain, 1942: (Facsimile)

Guide to Microform Holdings in the Bodleian Library

<p>The first English translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses was the work of William Caxton, not just England's first printer but also a successful merchant, diplomat, and one of the most prolific translators of the fifteenth century. Extremely popular in the late Middle Ages, the stories in the Metamorphoses featured in works by Chaucer, Gower, and Lydgate. Caxton's translation, which survives only in a single manuscript now in Magdalene College, Cambridge, was made not from the original Latin but from a prose version of the French Ovide moralise, a chivalric adaptation which includes allegorical and historical interpretations of the fables as well as additional classical tales. In the fifteenth century, Burgundian chivalric taste influenced the proliferation of the prose romance, and this genre was, in turn, sought as the height of English literary fashion. The Booke of Ovyde is thus a perfect example of how Caxton both reflected and influenced literary tastes of his day. This critical edition, the first of the entire work, seeks to encourage the study of Caxton's Ovyde, both as an example of the late-medieval mise en prose and as a significant part of Caxton's considerable oeuvre. It also serves as an entry point into the complex textual tradition of medieval Ovidian commentaries.</p>

Booke of Ovyde Named Methamorphose

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Volume the First: A Facsimile

Jane, Austen

Kathryn Sutherland

Classics

John Gower: Poems on Contemporary Events

Carlson, David

Talking About Detective Fiction

James,p.d.

How are maps designed and why are they made? What are the origins of street mapping and how did it develop? This publication charts the history of urban cartography using magnificent examples from the Bodleian Library's extensive map collections. It discusses the evolution of map design and compares cartographic styles and conventions over the centuries, and around the globe. It looks at how the purpose and function of maps directly and profoundly affects their design. Examples of the impact of war on mapping are illustrated with fascinating examples of mapping from World War II which mark out strategic sites such as the Morris car plant in Birmingham, while a "Soviet map of Oxford" produced during the Cold War shows key installations, such as industrial sites, post offices, the police station, and even publishers. Oxford maps are used to chart the sweep of cartographic development, from the famous sixteenth-century map of the city by Agas to the most recent products from the twenty-first century. Also on view is the 1883 "Drink Map of Oxford" published by the Temperance Union, which, paradoxically, draws attention to the fact that 'every twenty-second house in Oxford is a drink-shop' and marks these with a proliferation of red dots. The book includes a chapter discussing maps of streets that were planned but never built, such as Sir John Evelyn's plan for rebuilding the City of London after the Great Fire in 1666. It ends with a look at the future of mapping and considers map media and their uses. This fully-illustrated book is an important work for students and collectors of cartography, as well as for map enthusiasts or anyone with an interest in cities and their design.

Street Mapping

Science & Math

Nick Millea

Earth Sciences

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