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Art, architecture, poetry
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At
nightfall on the shortest day
An evocative text by Peter Davidson with a wood-engraving by Paul Kershaw. |
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Into the lagoon The
Venetian lagoon in 1914 with images by Leslie Gerry |
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The
Lost Colours of the Cyclades
White everywhere? Not always! |
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Palladio's Homes The villas
of Andrea Palladio and what others have said about them |
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Stockholm Reflections
The vibrant Stockholm waterfront as seen by artist Leslie Gerry |
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Alchemy of the Planets Images and
poems inspired by space missions |
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An
Italian Dream
Dickens dreams of Venice |
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Figures
in a Setting A
collection of six poems by James Kirkup, line drawings by John Watts
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Chesil
Beach A poem
by David Burnett, wood-engraving by Christopher Wormell |
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Lowlands
Away An
oratorio by Adrian Henri, pastel images by Adrian Henri |
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Jump
of the Manta Ray Poetry by Carmen Boullosa, photographs by Philip Hughes |
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A
Long Story Work
by Poet Laureate emeritus Andrew Motion, wood-engravings by Simon Brett |
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TankAlphabet An
alphabet book with tanka by James Kirkup |
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tokonoma Twenty
haiku & tanka by James Kirkup, wood-cuts by Naoko Matsubara |
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Tonge's
Travels The Med by cargo steamer in 1857 |
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Printing and papermaking history
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Printing at the University Press, Oxford, 1660-1780, volume I: Premises, people,
paper
The first volume of a major new study |
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Printing at the University Press, Oxford, 1660-1780, volume II: Type
The second volume of a major new study |
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Printing at the University Press, Oxford, 1660-1780, volume III: Process
The third volume of a major new study |
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Zapf and Stauffacher
A typographic collaboration |
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The
Daniel Press in Frome An account
of the early days of the Daniel Press |
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Printing at the Daniel Press New light
on Henry Daniel's printing practices |
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Making paper at Abbey Mills
An account of the process used at Abbey Mills in Wales in the 1920s |
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Paper making by hand in 1953
An account of the process used at Hayle Mill by Barcham Green |
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The
last papermakers of Fukushima Papers and
photographs from a vanished time in Japanese papermaking |
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The Old School Press Ltd
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