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Category Archives: Education
A Child’s History of England
The paths of the Cambridge Library Collection and Charles Dickens have crossed several times – remarkable, given that Dickens is (of course) one of Britain’s greatest novelists, and we don’t publish much fiction. But of the short experimental (for us) … Continue reading
The Most Celebrated British Libraries
William Clarke (about whom little, as they say, is known – at any rate to the web) followed the early nineteenth-century trend for snappy Latin titles with an explanatory English subtitle for those who had not had Latin beaten into … Continue reading
Mrs C.W. Earle’s Reading Lists
Mrs C.W. Earle (1836–1925 – born Maria Theresa Villiers) was one of many of ‘lady writers’ of the nineteenth century whose subject was gardens. We have published a number of such books, from serious botanical and horticultural to domestic idyllic … Continue reading
The Enemies of Books
These include: Fire, Water, Gas and Heat, Dust and Neglect, Ignorance and Bigotry, the Bookworm, Other Vermin, Bookbinders, Collectors, Servants and Children – at least according to William Blades, printer, bibliographer and author of the two-volume Life and Typography of … Continue reading
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Tagged bibliography, care of books, Caxton
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Ebenezer Cobham Brewer’s Unconsidered Trifles
Better known as Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, this fascinating brick of a work was first published in 1870, and its nineteenth edition in 2013. You will not be surprised to learn that our reissue is of the first … Continue reading
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