A history of medieval and early modern manuscripts – from Beowulf to Shakespeare folios. Illustrated.
Hidden Hands: The Lives of Manuscripts and Their Makers
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Edition:Hardback978152940093907/10/2021From a Bookshelf nearby
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Carey has been chief reviewer at the Sunday Times for over forty years. This new book is his own selection of his favourite books from the 1000+ that he has reviewed so far.
Sunday Best: 80 Great Books from a Lifetime of Reviews
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Argues that the physical form of books makes them distinctive, and sometimes dangerous, quite as much as their content. (John Morgan’s recent, limited edition Usylessly, with its beautiful... read more
Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers
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A monograph on the modernist graphic designer, as famous for his posters as his book jackets for the Hogarth Press, Faber & Faber, Gollanz, etc.
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Gorgeous colour images, as well as translations and commentary on these celebrated Persian poems. Both manuscripts date from the C15th and are exquisitely illustrated. This will be ravishing... read more