Books! books! books! : explore the amazing collection of the British Library / Mick Manning & Brita Granstrom.
Material type:![Text](/opac-tmpl/lib/famfamfam/BK.png)
- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780763697570
- 0763697575
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Dr. James Carlson Library | Children's NonFiction | 027.541 M284 | Available | 33111008958817 | ||||
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Main Library | Children's NonFiction | 027.541 M284 | Available | 33111008816056 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Calling all young bibliophiles! Peek inside the world's greatest library and get the inside story on some of the rarest, oddest, most valuable, and best-loved books in its vaunted collection.
A tiny prayer book carried by a queen to her execution. An atlas so huge that it takes six people to lift it. A handmade gospel hidden in a saint's coffin, and Shakespearean folios so precious they are kept in a bombproof storeroom. From stories of man-eating monsters, brave knights, and wicked witches to tales of lost children, magical creatures, haunted moors, and flying machines, award-winning duo Mick Manning and Brita Granström bring to life the extraordinary history of the book through the treasures of one of the greatest libraries in the world: the British Library.
Includes bibliographical references.
Welcome -- The St. Cuthbert Gospel -- The Lindisfarne Gospels -- Beowulf -- The Magna Carta -- The 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.