Franz Kafka died in 1924, when he was not yet forty-one. During his life he published only seven ...

Spanning the Islamic world, from ninth-century Baghdad to nineteenth-century Iran, this book tell...

First published in 1920, How to Dine in Style opens a window onto the golden age of elegant dinin...

A celebration of pioneering Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, and the artistic conne...

Veronica is your average hippopotamus with a big dream: she wants to become famous. But with so m...

A new kind of biography on Jane Austen examining the objects she encountered during her life alon...

Over the centuries, Paris has intrigued, revolted, scandalized and most of all captured the heart...

Johann Wilhelm Weinmann was an apothecary who established a botanic garden in Regensburg and set ...

A stunning gift edition of Washington Irving's quintessential Halloween story.

An exploration of a significant art: type designing.

The fascinating commercial history of the Bible's first English printings.

The story of how an Oxford student group's message of pacifism shocked the world at the onset of ...

A collection of thirteen bone-chilling tales from some of history's masters of horror.

A gorgeously illustrated, centuries-spanning journey through the pages of some of history's most ...

How Britain sought to inspire and empower democratic ideals among their servicemen in the afterma...

A charming collection of bite-sized readings for the bookworm on the go.

A beautiful poetry collection that celebrates life's moments of silence.

The incredible stories of the British and German climbers and their death-defying attempts to sum...

An extravagantly illustrated history of the development of bookbindings, from antiquity to modern...

An illuminating cultural history of the Cinderella tale.

The incredible history of paper recycling in eighteenth-century England.

A stunningly illustrated compendium of wondrous tales from Celtic mythology.

A succinct account of one of the great libraries of Europe, with fascinating details of the lives...

A stunning reproduction of the Bayeux Tapestry, transcribed and translated for today's readers.

A botanical history of the medicinal uses of herbs, flowers, fruits, and vegetables throughout time.

Linguist David Crystal's absorbing journey through the origins of seasonal English words and phra...

This richly illustrated book explores the huge creative endeavour behind Tolkien's enduring popul...

Reynard - a subversive, dashing, anarchic, aristocratic, witty fox from the watery lowlands of me...

Nine-and-a-half months after D-Day, 30,000 British troops crossed the Rhine as part of the Allied...

Before the advent of commercial transatlantic flights in the early 1950s, the only way to travel ...

The art of being a good wife is not an easy one. This little guide was written for the middle cla...

The University of Oxford is the third-oldest university in Europe and remains one of the greatest...

This lavishly illustrated book showcases the highlights of the Tolkien archives held at the Bodle...

Most of us are aware that the words for some of our most important concepts stem from ancient Gre...

The author of 'Young Romantics' explores the time, place, objects and manuscripts that influenced...

In 1944 the British War Office distributed a handbook to British soldiers informing them what to ...

When Falstaff calls upon the sky to rain potatoes in The Merry Wives of Windsor, he is highlighti...

Drawing on the extensive record of wireless transmissions in the Marconi Archives, Titanic Callin...

Ever wondered how to make a garden attractive in December? Or what to do with that corner by the ...

Oxford Botanic Garden has occupied its central Oxford site next to the river Cherwell continuousl...

How were the first fonts made? Who invented italics? When did we figure out how to print in color?

Many people have a love of maps. But what lies behind the process of map-making? How have cartogr...

A delightful compendium of complaints against the French, written in a direct colloquial style an...

Daniel Meadows is a pioneer of contemporary British documentary practice. His photographs and aud...

[This book] reveals the unique ways inwhich Shakespeare brings dying, death, and the dead to life...

To celebrate the acquisition of the archive of distinguished artist Tom Phillips, the Bodleian Li...

Published in association with the All England Lawn Tennis Club, this is the original rulebook as ...

The Wind in the Willows has its origins in the bedtime stories that Kenneth Grahame told to his s...