The Indian "Mutiny" 1857-58: A guide to source material in the India Office Library and Records

Reference

Seton, Rosemary E

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

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Mediaeval Medical Miniatures

P.M. Jones

Book by British Library, Hilton Kelliher, Sally Brown

English literary manuscripts

KELLIHER, Hilton and BROWN, Sally

Literature & Fiction

This book provides a guide to the very extensive and important philatelic collections maintained at the British Library, and is at the same time an introduction to the history of philately

STAMPS

R.F. Schooley-West

Physical description; vii, 100 p : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. Subjects; British Library - Catalogs. British Library - Exhibition Catalogs. Armenian Church - History. Bible. N.T. Gospels - Illustrations - Catalogs.

Armenian illuminated Gospel-books

Nersessian, V

Christian Books & Bibles

First edition. A magnificent production which will be a delight to any bibliophile, being filled with illustrations of rare and interesting items. The British Library's fifteen-million item collection includes many of the world's most famous books - the Gutenberg Bible, a First Folio of Shakespeare, the earliest dated printed book, first editions of Chaucer, etc. This work traces the history of the Library from its foundation with Sir Hans Sloane right up to the twentieth century. With the Randeria bookplate. 272 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 4to..

TREASURES Of The BRITISH LIBRARY.

History

Barker, Nicholas

Europe

By the turn of the nineteenth century the towns, villages and countryside of Britain had attained a picturesque and visually satisfying balance between the natural and the man-made, and judging by contemporary illustration, a beauty and comeliness unsurpassed before or since. In watercolour drawing British artists caught the changing light and weather to perfection. And in aquatint engraving combined with etching, their subtle tones and spontaneous effects could be reproduced in prints virtually indistinguishable from the original. Aquatinting was supplemented by hand-colouring, often done by teams of children. Prints were issued separately or in splendid colour-plate books, many of which have since been broken up to obtain prints for framing. These, after exposure to light, eventually fade; but the aquatints surviving intact in the British Library's volumes and the albums of the King's Topographical Collection remain as fresh and vivid as ever. In this book, nearly fifty have been selected for reproduction and comment, providing today's armchair tourist with an album that faithfully portrays the elegance and robust variety of Regency Britain.

Britain Portrayed: A Regency Album, 1780-1830

John Barr

Elgar in Manuscript

ROBERT ANDERSON

Humor & Entertainment

The Bedford Hours is one of Britain's major treasures. An outstanding example of late medieval manuscript art, it was written and illuminated in the early 15th century for John, Duke of Bedford, younger brother of King Henry V, and his wife, Anne of Burgundy. The principal artist of the leading Parisian workshop in which it was produced takes his name, the "Bedford Master," from his English patron. Expertly planned and professionally executed, the Bedford Hours is celebrated for the enormous range of its pictorial scheme, with many superb large miniatures in brilliant colours, and almost 1250 exquisite marginal details. Here Janet Backhouse examines the overall design of the Hours, discussing the historical background to its production and ownership, with 60 colour and black-and-white plates showing full pages and details beautifully reproduced from the manuscript. Janet Backhouse is curator of illuminated manuscripts at The British Library.

The Bedford Hours (The British Library)

Arts & Photography

Janet Backhouse

History & Criticism

First edition. The Seventh in the Panizzi Lecture series. Fabian traces the influences of English authors in Germany during a key period of intellectual history of the country. Illustrated. x, 110 pages. stiff paper wrappers.. small 8vo..

The English Book in Eighteenth-Century Germany (The Panizzi Lectures 1991)

Bernhard Fabian

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