A small book on this miraculous library, filled with 300 tiny books commissioned by Lutyens and Princess Marie Louise from some of the greatest authors of the time – Hardy, Conan Doyle and many others.
The Miniature Library of Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House
£16.95
Edition:Hardback978190974157708/02/2024
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Tag: Books about Books
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A brilliant tale of lexicographers whose lives are influenced in surprising ways by mountweazels. (Mountweazel, noun: a fake entry deliberately inserted into a dictionary or work of referenc... read more
The Liar’s Dictionary
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This eloquent little book offers a moving and erudite justification for the survival of high quality book shops and why they are essential places of discovery, refuge and fulfilment. Laced w... read more
In Praise of Good Bookstores
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A neat bit of historical detective work enabled the author of 'Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts' to identify Becket's Anglo-Saxon Psalter, which he may have been holding when he was murd... read more
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From the Bible to Simon Schama, a huge investigation of how the writing of history influences the record of human experience, and therefore its development.
Making History: 2,500 Years of Shaping the Past
Hardback £25.00