This book shows that you don't need a large kitchen, expensive ingredients and fancy equipment to...

Mentioned in despatches at Bunker Hill, brother to the Duchess of Argyll and the Countess of Cove...

This fascinating book describes the history of Oxford University's great academic library, from t...

The biography of the comic actor Thomas Doggett and the famous Coat and Badge Race which he found...

Published for the first time with The King's Grant of Privilege for Sole Printing Common-Law-Book...

Enter the Malcontent... a misfit, an outcast, a 'strayer from the drove', one who laughs at the f...

Anton de Moresco's whodunnit, set in the strange, cloistered environment of the University of Isl...

An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography traces the develop­ment of handwriting in the Gre...

When Bernard de Fontenelle published the first edition of his Entretiens sur la Pluralité des Mon...

A handsome, large-format paperback edition set in elegant type with generous margins.The venerabl...

The wittiest commentary on book-collecting and the care of books ever written, Blades's Enemies o...

William Coxe (1748-1828) was the stepson of Handel's amanuensis, John Christopher Smith. As such,...