Auction catalogue, books of John Chetwood Aiken ... [et al.], 20 to 22 June 1904
Author : Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge (London).
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Page : pages
File Size : 31,90 MB
Release : 1904
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Author : Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge (London).
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Page : pages
File Size : 31,90 MB
Release : 1904
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Author : Henry Benjamin Wheatley
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Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,63 MB
Release : 1886
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Author : Bill Bell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 20,93 MB
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0192894692
This is a book about readers on the move in the age of Victorian empire. It examines the libraries and reading habits of five reading constituencies from the long nineteenth century: shipboard emigrants, Australian convicts, Scottish settlers, polar explorers, and troops in the First World War. What was the role of reading in extreme circumstances? How were new meanings made under strange skies? How was reading connected with mobile communities in an age of expansion? Uncovering a vast range of sources from the period, from diaries, periodicals, and literary culture, Bill Bell reveals some remarkable and unanticipated insights into the way that reading operated within and upon the British Empire for over a century.
Author : George Speaight
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,25 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Puppet theater
ISBN : 9780809316069
A welcome reissue, revised and updated, of the classic work on the English puppet theatre, this detailed and lavishly illustrated book, first published in 1955, shows why puppet theatre in England developed along different lines from that on the Continent, and brings the story up to the television age. In 1938, at the age of 24, George Speaight left his job as a bookseller and went to work as a farmhand at Pigotts, the family settlement of Eric Gill and his group of artist-craftsworkers in Buckinghamshire. While there, Speaight decided to write a history of Punch and Judy. The project grew, and during the Second World War he spent his nights working in the Auxiliary Fire Service and his days at the British Museum Reading Room researching Punch and puppets. This book is the result of all his research.
Author : Martin Amis
Publisher : Jonathan Cape
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 30,9 MB
Release : 2018-11-08
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ISBN : 9781787331198
Author : Lionel Sumner Milford
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Page : 436 pages
File Size : 10,8 MB
Release : 1909
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Author : Felicity Ashbee
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 23,51 MB
Release : 2002-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780815607311
C. R. Ashbee was, some would say, the key man in the British Arts and Crafts movement during the early decades of the twentieth century. Regarded as heir to William Morris in political belief and design reform, Ash bee (and his Guild of Handicraft) gained international fame in his own time and remains a legend today. While much has been written about him, little has been said of his wife. Now Felicity Ashbee breaks the silence in a compelling book about her mother. The book depicts Janet Ashbee as a gifted woman of emotional warmth, strength, and unconventionality, all of which enhanced her husband's work. An accomplished writer and thinker in her own right, Janet Ashbee's life revolved around great historic issues that still resonate today: the socially conscious Arts and Crafts movement, the role of women in contemporary affairs, and embattled ethnic relationships in the Middle East-not to mention marriage and sexual orientation, predicated upon her husband's vibrant and well-known homosexuality. A book of rare insight and significance, Janet Ashbee sheds welcome light on the Arts and Crafts movement and on women in oft-romanticized Victorian and Edwardian British culture.
Author : Beverly J. Rambo
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Page : 984 pages
File Size : 28,57 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Southern States
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Peter Gunnarson Rambo (b. ca. 1611/12) was probably born in Stockholm, Sweden. He came to America in 1640 and settled in Christiana, New Sweden (now Delaware). He moved to Passyunk, Pennsylvania before 1669. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio and later scattered throughout the United States.
Author : Rockwell Kent
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 25,75 MB
Release : 1996-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0819572071
A classic tale of seafaring, shipwreck, and survival, reprinted from Wesleyan University Press's 1978 facsimile of the original. When artist, illustrator, writer, and adventurer Rockwell Kent first published N by E in a limited edition in 1930, his account of a voyage on a 33-foot cutter from New York Harbor to the rugged shores of Greenland quickly became a collectors' item. Little wonder, for readers are immediately drawn to Kent's vivid descriptions of the experience; we share "the feeling of wind and wet and cold, of lifting seas and steep descents, of rolling over as the wind gusts hit," and the sound "of wind in the shrouds, of hard spray flung on a drum-tight canvas, of rushing water at the scuppers, of the gale shearing a tormented sea." When the ship sinks in a storm-swept fjord within 50 miles of its destination, the story turns to the stranding and subsequent rescue of the three-man crew, salvage of the vessel, and life among native Greenlanders. Magnificently illustrated by Kent's wood-block prints and narrated in his poetic and highly entertaining style, this tale of the perils of killer nor'easters, treacherous icebergs, and impenetrable fog—and the joys of sperm whales breaching or dawn unmasking a longed-for landfall—is a rare treat for old salts and landlubbers alike.
Author : Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
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Page : 676 pages
File Size : 10,15 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Miracles
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