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IN SEARCH OF A MASTERPIECE
An Art Lover’s Guide to Great Britain and Ireland

CHRISTOPHER LLOYD

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Should you find yourself in Hull, Cork or Dundee, what paintings should you go and look at? Many masterpieces are waiting for you around the British Isles, sometimes neglected, in our galleries and mu... Learn More
THE DICTIONARY OF SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH PHILOSOPHERS

Edited by ANDREW PYLE

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This two-volume dictionary of seventeenth-century British philosophers construes ‘philosophy’ as wide in scope, including not just logic, metaphysics, ethics and epistemology, but those many aspec... Learn More
AN ATLAS OF ENGLISH DIALECTS

CLIVE UPTON and J D A WIDDOWSON

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This reference guide shows the reader from where certain English words, sounds and phrases originate and why usage varies from region to region. It includes: ninety maps showing the regions in which p... Learn More
DOW’S DICTIONARY OF RAILWAY QUOTATIONS

Edited by ANDREW DOW

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This is a compendium of quotations about railways from 1608 to the present day. It includes more than 3,400 entries drawn from the work of more than 1,300 writers and speakers and a wide range of B... Learn More
DICTIONARY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST

Edited by PIOTR BIENKOWSKI and ALAN MILLARD

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This is the only single-volume dictionary to embrace the whole of the ancient Near East, covering Anatolia, Mesopotamia, the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula from the earliest times, through the Old T... Learn More
PORTRAIT OF PEMBROKESHIRE

DILLWYN MILES

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This engaging and colourful portrait celebrates the ancient county of Pembrokeshire. Its history is long and romantic; its landscape breath-taking and largely free from modern corruption; its abundant... Learn More
THE CONCISE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF ARCHAEOLOGY

TIMOTHY DARVILL

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This is the most wide-ranging, comprehensive and up-to-date dictionary of archaeology available. More than 4,000 entries cover the terms encountered in academic and popular archaeological literature, ... Learn More
SMALL BOOKS FOR THE COMMON MAN
A Descriptive Bibliography

Edited by JOHN MERITON and CARLO DUMONTET

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The hundred years prior to the mid-nineteenth century saw a flowering of ephemeral publishing often referred to by the shorthand 'chapbooks'. This is an analytical bibliography of the National Art Lib... Learn More
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE MIDDLE AGES

Edited by ANDRÉ VAUCHEZ
With BARRIE DOBSON and MICHAEL LAPIDGE

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This reference work contains more than 3,000 articles, ranging from a few sentences to 10,000 word essays, providing information on all aspects of the Middle Ages, from the fifth century to the fiftee... Learn More
BÉNÉZIT DICTIONARY OF ARTISTS

EMMANUEL BÉNÉZIT et al

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Since it was originally published in France in 1911, the Bénéit Dictionary of Artists has been the unrivalled, indispensable work of reference for art historians, dealers, collect... Learn More

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IN SEARCH OF A MASTERPIECE An Art Lover’s Guide to Great Britain and Ireland

CHRISTOPHER LLOYD

Edited by ANDREW PYLE

CLIVE UPTON and J D A WIDDOWSON

Edited by ANDREW DOW

Edited by PIOTR BIENKOWSKI and ALAN MILLARD

DILLWYN MILES

TIMOTHY DARVILL

SMALL BOOKS FOR THE COMMON MAN A Descriptive Bibliography

Edited by JOHN MERITON and CARLO DUMONTET

Edited by ANDRÉ VAUCHEZWith BARRIE DOBSON and MICHAEL LAPIDGE

EMMANUEL BÉNÉZIT et al

IN SEARCH OF A MASTERPIECE
An Art Lover’s Guide to Great Britain and Ireland

SMALL BOOKS FOR THE COMMON MAN
A Descriptive Bibliography

Edited by ANDRÉ VAUCHEZ
With BARRIE DOBSON and MICHAEL LAPIDGE