The History of the Library in Western Civilization. Volume V: From Petrarch to Michelangelo.
In this fifth volume, the author writes about the re-evaluation of the ancient world: this set in motion a quest for the surviving works of ancient Greek and Latin literature, most of which were to be found in monastic libraries. He discusses the new schools and scholarly circles that were formed to... More info
Women in revolutionary debate. Female novelists from Burney to Austen.
In the later eighteenth and earlier nineteenth centuries novels were believed to have the power to shape and/or change behaviour, and, by implication, affect the political landscape of society on a large scale. The English response to the French Revolution can be traced through a reading of the nove... More info
‘The Child is Father of the Man’: The Importance of Juvenilia in the Development of the Author
`The Child is Father of the Man` discusses the field of nineteenth-century Juvenilia. Specifically, the development of the child writer into the adult author, arguing for increased critical attention toward the early works of now famous writers. The introductory chapter reviews th... More info
Line, Shade and Shadow. The Fabrication and Preservation of Architectural Drawings.
As documents of the built environment, as source material for architectural historians and preservation architects, and as stunning works of art, architectural drawings serve a wide and diverse audience. This book explores the materials and techniques used in their fabrication while illustrating... More info
The Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem. The history of the Atlas and the making of the facsimile.
In 2011 we have completed one of our most prestigious projects; the publication of the facsimile of the Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem bound in eight volumes . To celebrate this occasion we have published an accompanying publication with background information on the Atlas Blaeu-Van der Hem and the product... More info
Practice Makes Perfect P. Cotsen-Princeton 1 and the Training of Scribes in Byzantine Egypt
This book by papyrologist Scott Bucking is about a 7th century Sahidic Coptic manuscript including a syllabary and simple text indicating its use for elementary instruction in a monastery. The text provides a papyrological description of the manuscript, with a text describing its historical and soci... More info
Koeman`s Atlantes Neerlandici, Vol. IV. Town Atlases.
Descriptive and illustrated bibliography of the town atlases by Braun & Hogenberg, Blaeu, Janssonius, De Wit and other Dutch publishers.Acquisition of one volume is subscribing to the complete series. More info
Printed Cookbooks in Europe, 1470-1700: A Bibliography of Early Modern Culinary Literature
Co-publication. Sales Rights: Europe. Available in the USA from OAK KNOLL PRESS (ISBN 9781584562535). First edition. This is the first bibliography to list all known editions of printed cookbooks published in Europe before 1700. More than a hundred titles in at least 650 editions were printed in fo... More info
The Dartons. Publishers of Educational Aids, Pastimes & Juvenile Ephemera, 1787-1876.
“This is an important and fascinating work… Jill Shefrin already has a reputation for original research and meticulous scholarship. In this marvelous volume she has given us more, providing evidence for a previously unrecorded market in nineteenth-century teaching aids for both home education and sc... More info