A Bodleian Library A To Z: 26 Postcards From The Collections

Description

The Bodleian Library is home to innumerable cultural treasures from every corner of the globe, assembled over a period of four hundred years of collecting. Structured around the alphabet, this book contains twenty-six detachable postcards, each featuring a rare or beautiful masterpiece from maths and music to medicine and literature, including Shakespeare's First Folio, the Gutenberg Bible, sixteenth-century anatomical drawings by Vesalius and the Magna Carta. Presented in a handsome paper binding, these beautiful cards are perfect for you to display, or send to friends.

Table of contents

A is for ...AUSTEN B is for ...BOCCANO C is for ...CODEX LAUD D is for ...DURBAR E is for ...ELIZABETH I F is for ...FIRST FOLIO G is for ...GUTENBERG BIBLE H is for ...HANDEL I is for ...IRIS J is for ...JAPAN K is for ...KAFKA L is for ...LIFE OF BUDDHA M is for ...MAGNA CARTA N is for ...NASSAU HOURS O is for ...OWEN P is for ...PLINY Q is for ...QURAN R is for ...RUSHWORTH GOSPELS S is for ...SHELLEY T is for ...TOLKIEN U is for ...UNICORN V is for ...VENICE W is for ...WILLIAM MORRIS X is for ...ZHU XI Y is for ...YARN Z is for ...ZODIAC