Books! books! books! : explore the amazing collection of the British Library / Mick Manning & Brita Granstrom.
Позиции
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true Wethersfield Public Library - Children's Department J 832.92 MANNING
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Дополнительная Информация
- Издание
- First U.S. edition.
- Описание
- 42 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
- Библиография
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Содержание
- Welcome -- The St. Cuthbert Gospel -- The Lindisfarne Gospels -- Beowulf -- The Magna Carta -- Teh Canterbury Tales -- The Klencke Atlas -- Lady Jane Grey's Prayer Book -- William Shakespeare -- Cookbooks -- Medical books -- Jane Austen -- the Bronte Sisters -- The Brothers Grimm -- Charles Dickens -- Leonardo da Vinci -- Oliver Goldsmith -- Charles Darwin -- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -- Newspapers-The Times -- Sheet music-George Frideric Handel -- Sherlock Holmes -- More about the British Library.
- Summary
- Shares the stories behind some of the British Library's rarest and most valuable books, including a giant atlas that requires six people to lift it, Shakespeare folios kept in a bomb-proof room, and a prayer volume carried by a queen to her execution.
- Тема
- British Library -- Juvenile literature.
- Libraries -- Juvenile literature.
- Дополнительный автор
- Granström, Brita,
- ISBN
- 9780763697570 (hardcover)
- 0763697575 (hardcover)