The English Historical Library
Author | : William Nicolson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1714 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : William Nicolson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1714 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Nicolas Barker |
Publisher | : London : British Library |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : |
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. None of these essays has previously been reprinted and collectively they offer a series of authoritative insights into 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.
Author | : Nicolas Barker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Library resources |
ISBN | : 9780712304092 |
In this highly-illustrated account, Nicolas Barker reveals the history of the British Library's treasure house of books and manuscripts. The Library's holdings cover collections spanning almost three millennia, from the establishment of the British Museum, which brought together the libraries of Sir Hans Sloane, Sir Robert Cotton and Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford, to the foundation of the British Library in 1973 and to some outstanding acquisitions of the present day.
Author | : Austin Gee |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 754 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9780199256358 |
The Royal Historical Society's Annual Bibliography of British and Irish History provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of books and articles on historical topics published in a single calendar year. It is available before the end of the following year. The volume is divided into sections, to cover all periods of British and Irish history from Roman Britain to the end of the twentieth century, and is arranged alphabetically. It also includes sections on imperial and commonwealth history. Over two hundred journals are searched annually, and the editor's aim is to list all relevant books and articles published in the UK. Each section is edited by a specialist in the field; the whole is edited by Austin Gee for the Royal Historical Society. The book's contents are indexed by author, by place, by personal name, and by subject. The subject keywords enable scholars to trace publications in which they are interested, beyond the information conveyed in the title. The Annual Bibliography is the most complete and up-to-date bibliography of its type, and an indispensable tool for historians.
Author | : Mandell Creighton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Electronic journals |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Henry (of Huntingdon) |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780192840752 |
Henry of Huntingdon's narrative covers one of the most exciting and bloody periods in English history: the Norman Conquest and its aftermath. He tells of the decline of the Old English kingdom, the victory of the Normans at the Battle of Hastings, and the establishment of Norman rule. His accounts of the kings who reigned during his lifetime--William II, Henry I, and Stephen--contain unique descriptions of people and events. Henry tells how promiscuity, greed, treachery, and cruelty produced a series of disasters, rebellions, and wars. Interwoven with memorable and vivid battle-scenes are anecdotes of court life, the death and murder of nobles, and the first written record of Cnut and the waves and the death of Henry I from a surfeit of lampreys. Diana Greenway's translation of her definitive Latin text has been revised for this edition.
Author | : Philip Rowland Harris |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 952 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
The first comprehensive history of a world-renowned repository of knowledge and scholarship, this volume deals primarily with the growth of the library's collections, their cataloguing, and the reading rooms in which they are housed. The appendices includes a list of some of the better known persons who have used the reading rooms. 100 illustrations.
Author | : Christopher De Hamel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
The British Library's collection of manuscripts is mined for a wealth of examples, illustrated in color, to this guide to illumination for the general reader. De Hamel (now librarian, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, UK, he's a leading scholar in the field) discusses first why then how manuscripts were illuminated. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR