Dumndeu e Milolslivu
A small green booklet from Romania, 1863. It contains a Romanian story about Dumndeu and Miloslivu.
Engraved portrait of Charles Bray
Engraved portrait of Charles Bray, aged 72, by H. Adlard from a photograph.
George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans) was a local authoress based in the Coventry and Nuneaton district, from 1819-1880.
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Engraved portrait of George Eliot
Frontispiece with engraved portrait of George Eliot by Edmund J. Sullivan [19]01. (Swan Electric Engraving Co.).
An original engraving of this portrait is held by the National Portrait Gallery, London.
George ...
Erasmus, The Paraphrasis of Erasmus - binding
The Paraphrasis of Erasmus.
Front board showing blind stamping, metal clasps and chain.
Originally at Barcheston church.
Excursions Round Leamington
A guide book of Warwick, Coventry, Stratford, Kenilworth and the surrounding country, 1844.
Excursions Round Leamington
A guide book of Warwick, Coventry, Stratford, Kenilworth and the surrounding country, 1844.
Excursions Round Leamington
A blue hard-backed book entitled Excursions Round Leamington and published by T. Knibb, The Library and Reading Room, Upper Parade. It is a guide book and has a fold out map of Warwickshire on the first ...
Exhibition Catalogue
An exhibition catalogue from Paris. It contains descriptions and illustrations of oriental works of art from the collection of T. Hayashi, 1902.
Fairfax's New Leamington Guide
A paper-back book with a yellow cover and printed front, 1833. The book describes Leamington Spa and includes 'a dissertation and analysis of the waters, objects of interest in the vicinity, walks and ...
Fifty Years Of Progress, 1920-1970
A hard-backed book with a colour dust-jacket. It is called 50 years of progress 1920-1970 and was published to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Automotive Products, a manufacturer of breaks and clutches ...
Fifty Years of Progress, 1920-1970
A hard backed book commemorating Automotive Products from 1920 to 1970, with illustrations.
Flowers From the Upper Alps With Glimpses of Their Homes
A hard backed book containing descriptions and chromolithographic plates of alpine plants, 1869.
Gasparo Contarini, The commonwealth and government of Venice, 1599 - Prefatory sonnet, p. A4r detail.
An Elizabethan courtier promotes a book known to Shakespeare.
In 1599 one of Sir John Harington's poems praised the diplomat lawyer, Lewes Lewkenor's first translation into English of the Italian Garpar ...
Gasparo Contarini, The commonwealth and government of Venice, 1599 - 'Ayre of Venice', p.192
A source for Shakespeare’s knowledge of Venice.
Shakespeare’s tragedy of Othello begins in Venice, where the Moor is general of the Doge’s forces, and Desdemona is the daughter of ...
Gasparo Contarini, The commonwealth and government of Venice, 1599 - binding
A hard-wearing vellum binding of Shakespeare's time.
This volume is in its original binding of flexible vellum, with a hand-sewn spine. Vellum (a kind of leather from very young, still-born, or foetal ...
Gasparo Contarini, The commonwealth and government of Venice, 1599 - Book 5 - p. 125 detail.
The law of Venice inspired Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.
The trial in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice (4,1, lines 15-36) of Antonio for non-repayment to Shylock of his loan, and ...
Gasparo Contarini, The commonwealth and government of Venice, 1599 - p.133.
A Shakespeare contemporary writes about Venice.
The lawyer Lewis Lewkenor travelled in Europe, perhaps as a spy working against the English Catholics. He translated Contarini's book on Venice, first ...
Gasparo Contarini, The commonwealth and government of Venice, 1599 - printer's ornament, p. 98, N4v.
A woodcut as decoration.
Woodcuts used to ornament Elizabethan texts were frequently ornate and often symbolic of ideas contained within the text with which they are associated. The cherubs with lute ...