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Bodleian Library Publishing SPRING 2021
Bodleian Library
Publishing
SPRING 2021
Founded in 1602, the Bodleian Library is one of the
oldest libraries in Britain and the largest university
library in Europe. Since 1610, it has been entitled
to receive a copy of every book published in the
British Isles.
The Bodleian collections, built up through
benefaction, purchase and legal deposit, are
exceptionally diverse, spanning every corner of the
globe and embracing almost every form of written
work and the book arts. With over thirteen million
items and outstanding special collections, the
Bodleian draws readers from every continent and
continues to inspire generations of researchers as
well as the wider public who enjoy its exhibitions,
displays, public lectures and other events.
Increasingly, its unique collections are available
to all digitally.
Bodleian Library Publishing helps to bring
some of the riches of Oxford’s libraries to readers
around the world through a range of beautiful and
authoritative books. We publish approximately
twenty-five new books a year on a wide range of
subjects, including titles related to our exhibitions,
illustrated and non-illustrated books, facsimiles,
children’s books and stationery. We have a current
backlist of over 250 titles.
Cover image Illustrations from Johann Wilhelm All of our profits are returned to the Bodleian
Weinmann’s Phytanthoza Iconographia, 1737–1745.
and help support the Library’s work in curating,
Bodleian Library, Arch.Nat. hist. G 5-12. Taken from
A Cornucopia of Fruit & Vegetables, page 2. conserving and expanding its rich archives, helping
to maintain the Bodleian’s position as one of the
Image opposite Gallery, Upper Reading Room,
Radcliffe Camera © Featherstonhaugh pre-eminent libraries in the world.
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going to press and may be subject to change without
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Design by Sue Rudge Design & Communication
www.bodleianshop.co.uk INTRODUCTION 1
A Cornucopia of
Fruit & Vegetables
Illustrations from an
Eighteenth-Century
Botanical Treasury
Caroline Ball
ALSO BY THE AUTHOR
Heritage Apples
9781851245161 illus HB £25.00
Close-up photographs of plump apricots, juicy mangoes, crisp
lettuce … these are familiar to us all through cookery books
and garden guides. But seeing fruit and vegetables as detailed
art, viewed through eighteenth-century eyes, is something very
different – and more interesting. CAROLINE BALL is an editor,
copywriter and occasional translator
Thanks to intrepid explorers and plant-hunters, Britain and the rest who has written on many subjects, but
of Europe have long enjoyed a wide and wonderful array of fruit has a particular interest in horticulture,
and vegetables. Some wealthy households even created orangeries garden history and the plant-hunters,
and glasshouses for tender exotics and special pits in which to raise both men and women, who have made
pineapples, while tomatoes, sweetcorn and runner beans from the our gardens and countryside the rich
New World expanded the culinary repertoire. and diverse habitats they are today.
She is a keen gardener and author of
This wealth of choice attracted interest beyond the kitchen and Heritage Apples, and has contributed
garden. In the 1730s Johann Wilhelm Weinmann, a prosperous to other books, including a study of
Bavarian apothecary, produced the first volume of a comprehensive William Morris and a guide to
A to Z of plants, meticulously documented, and lavishly illustrated historical sites.
by botanical artists. A Cornucopia of Fruit & Vegetables is a glimpse
into his world. It features exquisite illustrations of the edible plants
in his historic treasury, allowing us to enjoy the sight of swan- 152 pp, 190 x 150 mm
necked gourds and horned lemons, smile at silkworms hovering c.100 colour illus
over mulberries and delight at the quirkiness of ‘strawberry 9781851245666
spinach’ … a delicious medley of garden produce and much else. HB £15.00
May 2021
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A Cornucopia of
Fruit &
Vegetables
i l l u s t r a t io n s f r o m
a n e ig h t e e n t h - c e n t u r y
bota nic a l t r e a su ry
Caroline Ball
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Roots to Seeds
400 Years of Oxford Botany
Stephen A. Harris
VISIT THE EXHIBITION
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford
Roots to Seeds: 400 Years of
Oxford Botany
May – October 2021
ALSO BY THE AUTHOR
Since 1621, and the foundation of the Oxford Botanic Garden,
Oxford has built up an outstanding collection of plant specimens,
botanical illustrations and rare books on plant classification,
collecting and plant biology. These archives, and the living plants in
the Garden, are integral to the study of botany in the University. Planting Paradise: Cultivating the
Garden 1501–1900
This book profiles the botanists and collections which have helped
9781851243433 illus HB £29.99
to transform our understanding of the biology of plants over the
past four centuries, focusing on plant classification, experimental
botany, building botanical collections, agriculture and forestry and
botanical education. Highlights include a selection of Ferdinand
Bauer’s renowned illustrations for Flora Graeca – an extraordinarily
lavish and detailed eighteenth-century botanical publication of
plants found in the Eastern Mediterranean – and rare plant speci- STEPHEN A. HARRIS is Druce Curator
mens from the herbaria, such as Fairchild’s Mule (the first artificially of Oxford University Herbaria.
created hybrid plant).
Together with seventeenth-century herbals, elegant garden plans, 224 pp, 259 x 237 mm
plant models and fossil slides, these items from the archives all help c.80 colour illus
to tell the story of botanical science in Oxford and the intrepid bota- 9781851245611
nists who devoted themselves to the essential study of plants. HB £40.00
May 2021
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Martha Lloyd’s
Household Book
The Original Manuscript
from Jane Austen’s
Kitchen
Introduced with annotated
transcription by Julienne
Gehrer
Foreword by Deirdre Le Faye
ALSO OF INTEREST
This is the first facsimile publication of Martha Lloyd’s Household
Book, the manuscript cookbook of Jane Austen’s closest friend.
Martha’s notebook is reproduced in a colour facsimile section with
complete transcription and detailed annotation. Introductory
chapters discuss its place among other household books of the
eighteenth century.
Martha Lloyd befriended a young Jane Austen and later lived Jane Austen: The Chawton Letters
Kathryn Sutherland
with Jane, her sister Cassandra and their mother at the cottage
9781851244744 illus HB £14.99
in Chawton, Hampshire, where Jane wrote or revised her novels.
Martha later married into the Austen family. Her collection features
recipes and remedies handwritten during a period of over thirty JULIENNE GEHRER is an author,
years and includes the only surviving recipes from Mrs Austen and journalist and food historian who
Captain Francis Austen, Jane’s mother and brother. lectures on Jane Austen and the long
eighteenth century.
There are many connections between Martha’s book and Jane
Austen’s writing, including white soup from Pride and Prejudice
and the author’s favourites – toasted cheese and mead. The family,
culinary and literary connections detailed in the introductory 312 pp, 223 x 171 mm
chapters of this work give a fascinating perspective on the time and c.85 colour illus
manner in which both women lived, thanks to this extraordinary 9781851245604
artefact passed down through the Austen family. HB £30.00
June 2021
In association with Jane Austen's House
Image opposite © Julienne Gehrer
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From the Vulgate Hyphens &
to the Vernacular Hashtags*
Four Debates on an English *The stories behind the
Question c.1400 symbols on our keyboards
Edited by Elizabeth Solopova, Claire Cock-Starkey
Jeremy Catto and Anne
Hudson
Translation is at the centre of Christianity, scripturally, as reflected in
the biblical stories of the tower of Babel, or of the apostles’ speaking
in tongues after the Ascension, and historically, where arguments
about it were dominant in Councils, such as those of Trent or the
Second Vatican Council of 1962–64, which, it should be recalled,
privileged the use of the vernacular in liturgy.
The punctuation marks, mathematical symbols and glyphs
The four texts edited here discuss the legitimacy of using the which haunt the edges of our keyboards have evolved over ALSO BY THE AUTHOR
vernacular language for scriptural citation. This question in England many hundreds of years. They shape our understanding of texts,
ELIZABETH SOLOPOVA is a Research
became central to the perception of the followers of John Wyclif calculations and online interactions. Without these symbols all texts
Fellow and lecturer at the English
(sometimes known as Lollards): between 1409 and 1530 the use would run in endless unbroken lines of letters and numbers.
Faculty, University of Oxford. JEREMY
CATTO (1939–2018) was Fellow of English scriptures was severely impeded by the established
Many hands and minds have created, refined and promulgated the
Emeritus of Oriel College in the church, and an episcopal licence was required for its possession
symbols which give form to our written communication. Through
University of Oxford. ANNE HUDSON or dissemination. The issue evidently aroused academic interest,
individual entries discussing the story behind each example,
is a Fellow of the British Academy, especially in Oxford, where the first complete English translation
Hyphens & Hashtags reveals the long road many of these special
Professor Emerita (personal chair) seems to have originated. The three Latin works here survive
characters have taken on their way into general use. In the digital
of Medieval English at the English complete, each in a single manuscript: of these texts two, written by The Real McCoy and 149 Other Eponyms
age of communication, some symbols have gained an additional
Faculty and an Honorary Fellow of a Franciscan, William Butler, and by a Dominican, Thomas Palmer, 9781851244980 HB £9.99
meaning or a new lease of life – the colon now doubles up as the
Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. are wholly hostile to translation. The third, the longest and most
eyes of a smiling face emoticon and the hashtag has travelled from
perceptive, edited here for the first time, emerges as written by a
obscurity to an essential component of social media. Alongside CLAIRE COCK-STARKEY is the author
secular priest of impressive learning, Richard Ullerston; his other
historical roots, this book also considers ever-evolving modern of over a dozen non-fiction books on a
writings display his radical, but not unorthodox opinions. The only
216 pp, 228 x 152 mm usage and uncovers those symbols which have now fallen out variety of subjects but all united in their
English work here is a Wycliffite adaptation of Ullerston’s Latin.
8 pp colour plates of fashion. aim to tell fascinating stories.
The volume provides editions and modern translations of these
9781851245635
four texts, together with a substantial introduction explaining their Hyphens & Hashtags casts a well-deserved spotlight on these
HB £185.00
context and the implications of their arguments, and encouraging stalwarts of typography whose handy knack for summing up a 192 pp, 184 x 118 mm
January 2021
Studies and Texts 220; British Writers of the further exploration of the perceptions of the nature of language that command or concept in simple shorthand marshals our sentences, 9781851245369
Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period 7 are displayed there, many of which, and notably of Ullerston, are in clarifies a calculation or adds some much-needed emotion to our HB £12.99
Published in North America by PIMS advance of those of his contemporaries. online interactions. March 2021
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Stationery
Botanical Art
Notebook Set –
Lemon, Chillis
and Apples
3 A5 ruled notebooks with
stitched spines
Bodleian Library
With illustrations from
Johann Wilhelm Weinmann’s
Phytanthoza Iconographia
Johann Wilhelm Weinmann was an apothecary who established
a botanic garden in Regensburg and set about producing a highly
detailed catalogue of plants and their uses, with illustrations
commissioned from some of the finest engravers of the time.
The resulting Phytanthoza Iconographia is an immense work,
contained within several volumes published between 1737 and
1745. It features no fewer than 1,025 beautiful colour plates –
including early examples of colour mezzotint – of all manner of fruit
and vegetables.
Three of the exquisite plates are reproduced in this lovely set of A5
softback notebooks: the perfect gift for gardeners and connoisseurs
of botanical illustration.
48 ruled pp each, 210 x 148 mm
9781851245697
3 A5 ruled notebooks with stitched
spines £10.99 incl VAT
May 2021
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Birds Journal
Bodleian Library
With illustrations by
Eric Fitch Daglish
‘High from the earth I heard a bird’
– Emily Dickinson
Eric Fitch Daglish (1892–1966) was a wood engraver, writer
and illustrator. His book Woodcuts of British Birds was published
in 1925.
Daglish learnt the art of wood engraving from Paul Nash and
became known for his illustrations of the natural world. He
illustrated an edition of Gilbert White’s Natural History of Selborne
and he both wrote and illustrated several books on natural history,
including Birds of the British Isles, 1948.
Beautifully produced in hardback with ruled paper and ribbon
marker, this makes a perfect gift for bird watchers and nature lovers.
160 ruled pp, 182 x 130 mm
19 b&w illus
9781851245680
HB £11.99 incl VAT
April 2021
16 STATIONERY / NEW www.bodleianshop.co.uk NEW / STATIONERY 17Alice in Butterfly
Wonderland Notebook Set
Journals 3 A5 ruled notebooks with
Bodleian Library stitched spines
Bodleian Library
In association with Oxford
University Museum of
Natural History
Jones’ Icones is a stunning six-volume manuscript containing
paintings of some of the most important butterfly and moth
collections at the end of the eighteenth century. It is the work of
William Jones (1745–1818), a wealthy wine merchant from Chelsea
who, on retirement, devoted the rest of his life to studying and
painting butterflies and moths. Held in the archives of the Oxford
University Museum of Natural History, the volumes contain over
Invented to entertain Alice Liddell on boat trips down the river 1,500 ink and gouache paintings representing 760 species from
Thames in Oxford, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has become one around the world. Work continues to this day to determine whether
of the most famous and influential works of children’s literature of all the original specimens depicted still survive.
all time.
This set of three A5, softback notebooks with high-quality ruled
It is hard to imagine Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland without paper makes an exquisite gift for nature-lovers and writers alike.
Alice in Wonderland Journal –
picturing the illustrations made by Sir John Tenniel for the first
‘Too Late,’ said the Rabbit
edition of the story. Sir John Tenniel (1820–1914) was the principal
160 ruled pp, 182 x 130 mm
satirical cartoonist for Punch magazine for over fifty years and much
21 b&w illus
in demand as an illustrator in Victorian Britain. At Lewis Carroll’s
9781851245499
request, he illustrated the first edition of Alice’s Adventures in
HB £11.99 incl VAT
Wonderland, published by Macmillan in 1865. In 1899, Gertrude E.
July 2020
Thompson adapted Tenniel’s illustrations for a card game entitled
Butterfly Notebook Set
‘The New and Diverting Game of Alice in Wonderland’. These
Alice in Wonderland Journal – 48 ruled pp each, 210 x 148 mm
unforgettable illustrations, including the Mad Hatter, the Mock
Alice in Court 9781851245413
Turtle and the Queen of Hearts, among many others, are featured in
160 ruled pp, 182 x 130 mm 3 A5 ruled notebooks with stitched
these special journals.
21 b&w illus spines £10.99 incl VAT
9781851245420 Beautifully produced in hardback with ruled paper, foiled page November 2020
HB £11.99 incl VAT edges, ribbon marker and printed endpapers, these two Alice in In association with Oxford University
July 2020 Wonderland journals are the perfect gift for Wonderland fans. Museum of Natural History
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Map Journals
26 Postcards from the Collections
A Bodleian Library A to Z
52 pp, 165 x 120 mm
Structured around the alphabet, this pack contains twenty-six 26 colour illus
detachable postcards, each featuring a rare or beautiful master- 9781851244041
piece. Presented in a handsome paper binding, these attractive Cards £9.99 incl VAT
cards are perfect for you to display or send to friends. September 2014
Tolkien Smaug Journal
160 ruled pp, 207 x 140 mm
An Illuminated Alphabet These Bodleian Library journals showcase gorgeous illustrations 9781851245277
from our collections on the covers. Designed to be easily portable or HB £9.99 incl VAT
26 Postcards to fit in a small bag, each hard-cover journal is 207 x 140 mm, with March 2019
160 ruled pages of high-quality paper. Every journal is finished with
These twenty-six detachable postcards feature historiated initials 52 pp, 165 x 120 mm a sturdy elastic band closure, ribbon marker and elastic pen holder. London Map Journal
decorated with gold leaf from medieval and renaissance manu- 26 colour illus An expanding wallet for storing papers is also included on the inside 160 ruled pp, 207 x 140 mm
scripts together with hand-painted examples from early printed 9781851244133 back cover. Produced to a high standard with careful attention to 9781851245222
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Just the Job The Botany of Gin
How Trades got their Chris Thorogood and Simon
Names Hiscock
Alexander Tulloch
Baobab
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Adansonia digitata
FAMILY: Mallow family (Malvaceae)
DESCRIPTIoN: This extraordinary species is the most
widespread of a group of trees known collectively as the
baobabs. All are long-lived pachycauls – distinctive plants
characterized by their distended trunks, which store water and
are an adaption to survival under extremely dry conditions.
During the dry season they shed their leaves. The fowers are
whitish, large and heavy, growing to about 12 cm across, and
are pollinated by fruit bats. The large egg-shaped fruits are
initially green and later turn brown and harden.
DISTRIBuTIoN: Africa.
uSE IN GIN: The fruit of the baobab is said to confer a citrus note
to gin. Its use is the perfect example of distillers becoming more
adventurous in their choice of botanicals, particularly those that
denote provenance from a particular region.
barrels or casks specifcally for the storage or transport The prevalence of surnames found in other European
of dry food such as grain or wheat. The second made the languages associated with barrel-making suggest that
barrels that served as receptacles for ale, wines and so on. the skills the cooper had to ofer were in great demand.
Consider the following:
The ‘white’ coopers traditionally confned their activities
to producing the pails and buckets used on farms during French Tonnellier
German Binder/Fassbender
milking or for carrying water from the well.
Dutch Kuiper
The word is a borrowing Hungarian Kádár
of the Dutch kuip, ‘vat’ or Spanish Cubero 46 THE BoTANY oF GIN TRo PICAL FRu ITS 47
‘tub’, itself a derivation of the Russian Bondarev
Ukrainian Bondarenko
Medieval Latin cōpa, ‘a tun’, Danish Bødker
‘a barrel’, which is a variant of Greek Varelas
the Latin cūpa, ‘cask’ or ‘butt’.
Tracing the history of the word
a little further back we fnd
that cūpa is directly related to Cordwainer
the Greek cupellon, meaning a In Anglo-Saxon England the man who made shoes for his
goblet or large drinking vessel. And both examples from clients was known as a scōhere (shoe-er) or scōwyrhta (shoe
classical antiquity are, theoretically at least, linked to wright), but when the Crusades began in 1096 the days Sweet orange
the Indo-European root *keup, ‘hollow’ or ‘curved’, and of the traditional shoemaker were numbered. Soldiers,
SCIenTIFIC nAMe: Citrus x sinensis
directly related to our words ‘cup’, ‘cowl’ and even ‘cow’. crossing and recrossing Europe on their way to and from FAMILY: Rue family (Rutaceae)
In the ffteenth century the word ‘coop’ was also being the holy sites they were supposed to be defending, came
used to describe the cage in which poultry was kept, and into contact with other cultures and brought back what
by the sixteenth it was applied generally to any place of we would think of today as souvenirs.
confnement. This is why we can talk even now of ‘being One of these mementoes was a kind of leather which
cooped up’ when we mean we feel trapped inside a build- was far superior to anything the traditional shoemakers DeSCRIPTIOn: The sweet orange is a small, shallow-rooted
citrus tree with spiny branches that bear the familiar
ing and feel the desperate need to escape. of England had seen previously. This was a material
edible fruit (botanically classifed as a type of berry called
produced in Córdoba, the capital of Moorish Spain. It a hesperidium that has a leathery rind with oil glands). The
became so popular with leather workers back home in sweet orange group includes some of the most popular
citrus fruits and many forms are cultivated, primarily for their
juice, but also for seed oil, which is used in cosmetics. The
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blood orange is an unusual variant with particularly dark or
red-streaked fesh that has been grown in the Mediterranean
(especially in Spain and Italy) since the eighteenth century.
DISTRIbuTIOn: Sweet oranges are cultivated across the world
in frost-free climates.
uSe In GIn: Sweet orange gives gin a zesty, refreshing taste.
26 THe bOTAnY OF GIn FRu ITS AnD beRRIeS 27
ALSO BY THE AUTHOR ALSO BY CHRIS THOROGOOD
What did a gongfarmer do? How is a chaperone connected to a bird From its roots in ancient Greek herbal medicine, the popular
of prey? What is the etymology behind cloud architect? And is there spirit we now know as gin was established by the Dutch in the
a link between secretaries and secrets? sixteenth century as a juniper-infused tincture to cure fevers. It
gained notoriety during the London ‘gin craze’ in the eighteenth
The story behind these (and many more) job titles is rarely
century before enjoying a recent resurgence and a profusion of
predictable and often fascinating. In this highly original book,
new botanical flavourings.
Alexander Tulloch examines the etymology behind a selection of
trades and professions, unearthing intriguing nuggets of historical Garnished with sumptuous illustrations depicting the plants
It’s All Greek: Borrowed Words and Curious Creatures on our Shores
information along the way. Here you will find explanations of that tell the story of this complex and iconic drink, this enticing
their Histories 9781851245345 illus HB £15.00
common surnames, such as Spencer, Hayward and Fletcher; book delves into the botany of gin from root to branch. A diverse
9781851245055 illus HB £12.99
obsolete jobs such as pardoner, cordwainer or telegraph boy; and assortment of aromatic plants from around the world have been
roles for the modern era, such as wedding planner, pundit and used in the production of gin over the course of several centuries.
CHRIS THOROGOOD is Deputy Director
sky marshal. Each combination of botanicals yields a unique flavour profile
and Head of Science of Oxford Botanic
that equates to more than the sum of its parts. Understanding the
Packed with additional etymological information and literary Garden and Arboretum. SIMON
ALEXANDER TULLOCH is a Fellow of different types of formulation, and the main groups of plants used
quotations, this book will appeal not only to linguists but also to HISCOCK is Director of Oxford Botanic
the Chartered Institute of Linguists. therein, is central to appreciating the drink’s complexities
anyone interested in the quirky twists and turns of meaning which Garden and Arboretum.
and subtleties. As this book’s extraordinary range of featured
have given us the job titles with which we are familiar today.
ingredients shows, gin is a quintessentially botanical beverage 112 pp, 210 x 148 mm
224 pp, 184 x 118 mm with a rich history like no other. 35 colour illus
c.30 b&w illus 9781851245536
9781851245505 HB £15.00
HB £12.99 September 2020
October 2020 In association with Oxford Botanic Garden
24 RECENT HIGHLIGHTS www.bodleianshop.co.uk RECENT HIGHLIGHTS 25Aesop’s Fables Reynard the Fox
Illustrations by Agnes Miller Anne Louise Avery
Parker
Translation by V.S. Vernon ‘Listen as the Fox slowly and deftly
Jones and others unbinds his whole pack of tricks
– his flattery and fine words, his
warm and sugary russet charm,
his bold-faced blandishments. He
has brought forth a spool of raw
THE LION AND THE WILD ASS
A lion and a wild ass went out hunting together: the latter was
to run down the prey by his superior speed, and the former
would then come up and despatch it. They met with great
success; and when it came to sharing the spoil the lion divided
it all into three equal portions. ‘I will take the first,’ said he,
lies and spun them into a glittering
‘because I am king of the beasts; I will also take the second,
because, as your partner, I am entitled to half of what remains;
and as for the third – well, unless you give it up to me and
take yourself off pretty quick, the third, believe me, will
make you feel very sorry for yourself!’
Might makes right.
THE BOYS AND THE FROGS
Some mischievous boys were playing on the edge of a pond and,
catching sight of some frogs swimming about in the shallow
web of truth to trap them all.
water, they began to amuse themselves by pelting them with
Every last one of them.’
stones and they killed several of them. At last one of the frogs
put his head out of the water and said, ‘Oh, stop! stop! I beg
of you: what is sport to you is death to us.’
Play for one may be death to another.
‘I am king of the beasts.’
THE NORTH WIND AND THE SUN
A dispute arose between the north wind and the sun, each
claiming that he was stronger than the other. At last they
agreed to try their powers upon a traveller, to see which could
soonest strip him of his cloak. The north wind had the first
try; gathering up all his force for the attack, he came whirling
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THE COCK AND THE JEWEL
A cock, scratching the ground for something to eat, turned up
a jewel that had by chance been dropped there. ‘Ho!’ said he.
‘A fine thing you are, no doubt and, had your owner found you,
great would his joy have been. But for me, give me a single grain
of corn before all the jewels in the world.’
Precious things are for those who prize them.
THE GOOSE THAT LAID
THE GOLDEN EGGS
A man and his wife had the good fortune to possess a goose
which laid a golden egg every day. Lucky though they were, they
soon began to think they were not getting rich fast enough and,
imagining the bird must be made of gold inside, they decided
to kill it in order to secure the whole store of precious metal at
once. But when they cut it open they found it was just like any ‘Give me a single grain of corn before all the jewels in the world.’
other goose. Thus they neither got rich all at once, as they had
hoped, nor enjoyed any longer the daily addition to their wealth.
Much wants more and loses all.
THE CAT AND THE MICE
There was once a house that was overrun with mice. A cat heard
of this and said to herself, ‘That’s the place for me.’ Off she went
and took up her quarters in the house, and caught the mice one
by one and ate them. At last the mice could stand it no longer,
and they determined to take to their holes and stay there. ‘That’s
awkward,’ said the cat to herself. ‘The only thing to do is to coax
them out by a trick.’ So she considered a while, and then climbed
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This is marvellously spirited and
adroit storytelling and an exciting
example of innovative translation.
ALSO OF INTEREST For twenty-five centuries, the animal stories which go by the Reynard – a subversive, dashing, anarchic, aristocratic, witty fox Anne Louise Avery communicates
name of Aesop’s Fables have amused and instructed generations from the watery lowlands of medieval East Flanders – is in trouble. throughout sheer pleasure in the
of children and adults alike. They are still as fresh and poignant He has been summoned to the court of King Noble the Lion, material and luxuriates in its lexical
today as they were to the ancient Greeks who composed them. charged with all manner of crimes and misdemeanours. How will exuberance. Adding mischievous
This beautifully illustrated edition contains some of the best-loved he pit his wits against his accusers – greedy Bruin the Bear, arrogant contemporary twists, she has
fables, including the Boy who Cried Wolf, the Lion and the Mouse, Tybert the Cat and dark and dangerous Isengrim the Wolf – to wonderfully refreshed and revivified
the Goose that Laid the Golden Egg, the Hare and the Tortoise, and escape the gallows? the medieval collection and shows
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse alongside many of the how these traditional animal fables,
Reynard was once the most popular and beloved character in
lesser-known tales. with their large and lively cast of
European folklore, as familiar as Robin Hood, King Arthur or
Sindbad the Sailor & Other Stories
These timeless stories are illustrated with thirty-seven wood Cinderella. His character spoke eloquently for the unvoiced and characters and their wicked and
from the Arabian Nights seductive protagonist, have lost
engravings by Agnes Miller Parker (1895–1980), one of the greatest disenfranchised, but also amused and delighted the elite, capturing
lllustrations by Edmund Dulac, translation
British wood engraving artists of the twentieth century. Parker was hearts and minds across borders and societal classes for centuries. none of their truth-telling power.
by Laurence Housman, introduction by
influenced by the art of Wyndham Lewis and the Cubist and Vorti- – Marina Warner
Marina Warner
Based on William Caxton’s bestselling 1481 English translation from
9781851245017 illus HB £30.00 cist movements, which flourished in the period between the wars.
the Middle Dutch, but expanded with new interpretations, innova-
Her distinctive work is strikingly stylized and deceptively simple. ANNE LOUISE AVERY is a writer and art
tive language and characterization, this edition is an imaginative
Commissioned in the 1930s by the fine press publisher, Gregynog historian based in Oxford.
retelling of the Reynard story. With its themes of protest, resistance
Press, for their edition of the work, these exquisite wood engravings
and duplicity fronted by a personable, anti-heroic Fox making his
208 pp, 242 x 190 mm inspired by the fables are among Parker’s finest. 480 pp, 200 x 145 mm
way in a dangerous and cruel world, this gripping tale is as relevant
35 b&w illus 10 b&w illus
and controversial today as it was in the fifteenth century.
9781851245376 9781851245550
HB £30.00 HB £20.00
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26 RECENT HIGHLIGHTS www.bodleianshop.co.uk RECENT HIGHLIGHTS 27That’s the Ticket Secrets of the
for Soup! Great Ocean
Victorian Views on Liners
Vocabulary as Told in the John G. Sayers
Pages of Punch
David Crystal
He issues a severe warning, recalling Impressions of Theophrastus Such,
by George Eliot, which had been published the year before. This was a
collection of social commentaries written in the voice of a fctional male
philosopher. One of the essays was headed ‘Debasing the moral currency’,
by which s/he meant: ‘lowering the value of every inspiring fact and
tradition so that it will command less and less of the spiritual products.’
The Punch writer must have read it, as one of Such’s targets was ‘a certain
style of young lady, who checks our tender admiration with rouge and
henna and all the blazonry of an extravagant expenditure, with slang and
bold brusquerie [bluntness] intended to signify her emancipated view of
things’. A wrangler was (and still is) a student taking the mathematical
tripos at Cambridge University who gains a frst-class degree; the name
derives from the older sense of ‘debater’.
DEBASING THE VERBAL CURRENCY
(A long way) after Theophrastus Such
‘On 2nd inst., at the —— Street Police Ofce, a gentlemanly-looking
young man, who refused his name, was fned ten shillings and costs for
using bad language.’
MORAL.
Now, all you nice young Ladies,
Be warned by this, I pray;
Whoso murders the Queen’s English,
For it will have to pay.
Respect the words your mothers
Have watered with their tears,
And against your slangy brothers
Shut tight your rosy ears.
ENGLISH AS SHE IS SPOKE!!
Go and win Wranglers’ places,
Future Duke. ‘What are you goin’ to do this mornin’, eh?’
Go up in, and for, degrees;
But no more slangy phrases, Future Earl. ‘Oh I dunno. Rot a bout, I s’pose, as usual.’
Dear young Ladies! if you please. Future Duke. ‘Oh, but I say, that’s so rotten.’
Vol . 77, 1880, p. 71 Future Earl. ‘Wel l, what else is there to do, you rotter?’
14 15
ALSO BY THE AUTHOR
The vocabulary of past times, no longer used in English, is always Before the advent of commercial transatlantic flights in the early
fascinating, especially when we see how it was pilloried by the 1950s, the only way to travel between continents was by sea. During
satirists of the day. the golden age of ocean liners, between the late nineteenth century
and the Second World War, shipping companies ensured their vessels
We Are Not Amused: Victorian Views
Here we have Victorian high and low society, with its fashionable
were a home away from home, providing entertainment, dining,
on Pronunciation as Told in the Pages and unfashionable slang, its class awareness and the jargon of
sleeping quarters and smoking lounges to accommodate their
of Punch steam engines, motor cars and other products of the Industrial
passengers for voyages that could last as long as three months.
9781851244782 illus HB £12.99 Revolution. Then as now, people had strong feelings about the
flood of new words entering English. Swearing, new street names Secrets of the Great Ocean Liners leads the reader through each of the JOHN G. SAYERS is a collector
and the many borrowings from French provoked continual irritation stages – and secrets – of ocean liner travel, from booking a ticket and and frequent contributor of articles
DAVID CRYSTAL is a writer, editor,
and mockery, as did the Americanisms increasingly encountered in choosing a cabin to shore excursions, dining, on-board games, social on ocean liners and other ephemera
lecturer and broadcaster on language.
the British press. events, romances and disembarking on arrival. Additional chapters to antique and collector publications
His books include Sounds Appealing:
disclose wartime voyages and disasters at sea. in the UK, USA and Canada. The
The Passionate Story of English In this intriguing collection, David Crystal has pored through the
Pronunciation, Profile, 2018, and Sayers Collection now resides in
pages of the satirical magazine Punch between its first issue in 1841 The shipping companies produced glamorous brochures, sailing
Let’s Talk: How English Conversation the John Johnson Collection at the
and the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, and extracted the articles schedules, voyage logs, passenger lists, postcards and menus, all of
Works, OUP, 2020. Bodleian Library.
and cartoons that poked fun at the jargon of the day, adding a which help us to savour the challenges, etiquette and luxury of ocean
commentary on the context of the times and informative glossaries. liner travel. Diaries, letters and journals written on board also reveal
In doing so he reveals how many present-day feelings about words a host of behind-the-scenes secrets and fascinating insights into the
120 pp, 210 x 161 mm 256 pp, 228 x 176 mm
have their origins over a century ago. experience of travelling by sea. This book dives into a vast, unique
34 b&w illus c.150 colour illus
collection to reveal the scandals, glamour, challenges and tragedies
9781851245529 9781851245307
of ocean liner travel.
HB £14.99 HB £25.00
October 2020 November 2020
28 RECENT HIGHLIGHTS www.bodleianshop.co.uk RECENT HIGHLIGHTS 29Temple of Science Town
The Pre-Raphaelites and Prints & Drawings of
Oxford University Museum Britain before 1800
of Natural History
Bernard Nurse
John Holmes
I.
North of England
The North of England stretches from the Scottish border to Cheshire Cloth-making towns in the West Riding of Yorkshire did not
and Yorkshire. Before the middle of the seventeenth century, growth develop as quickly as towns in Lancashire. Leeds was one exception,
was mostly in the rural areas where agriculture had been assisted where the population grew rapidly, as it did in Sheffield, which
by the enclosure of common fields and manufacture was essentially specialized in cutlery and tool-making. On the coast, seaports
domestic. The older centres such as Durham and Beverley were responded to the expanding North Sea economy and the demand
generally in decline and only York and Newcastle are estimated to for abundant and accessible coal, especially from the important
have had more than 10,000 inhabitants; in Newcastle seventeenth- London market. Mining allowed towns in County Durham to
century evidence of plague and considerable poverty has been found. expand; whaling and fishing industries flourished; the coal trade and
Change was slow in many parts, hampered by the upland countryside shipbuilding developed around Tyneside.
and poor communications. In other areas urban development Those towns in areas without significant industries, such as much
gathered pace towards the end of the eighteenth century, fuelled of East Yorkshire, remained stable or declined. From being one of
by the industrial revolution; and the foundations were laid for more the largest provincial towns in England in 1700, by the end of the
spectacular growth in succeeding years. century York was little more than half the size of Newcastle. The
In particular Liverpool and Manchester became the largest corporation and craft guilds restricted new enterprises and poverty
provincial towns in England by 1801. Liverpool benefited from was widespread. Just as York lost trade to Hull, another former
trade with the British colonies in North America and one of the regional centre, Chester on the river Dee lost out to Liverpool as
main imports, cotton, came to be extensively processed in factories the most important port in the north-west. The continuous silting of
around Manchester. Improvements to navigation along the rivers the river made navigation by ocean-going vessels difficult compared
Mersey and Irwell improved transport by water. Dramatic but short- to that on the Mersey, where there were good harbour facilities
lived growth took place on the coast north of Liverpool in Cumbria. at Liverpool.
In Whitehaven, the earliest of the new towns was founded by the Walton, 2000, pp. 111–31.
enterprising Lowther family, the powerful principal landowners.
14 15
his close friend Collins. Millais painted
the background to Te Woodman’s Daughter
a few miles outside the city in Wytham
Woods – now the site of the University’s
forestry research programme – and the
window for Mariana in Merton College
Chapel. Collins painted the fowers for
Convent Toughts (fgure 10) from plants
in the garden of Tomas Combe, printer
to the University, who lived on site at the
Clarendon Press in the Oxford suburb of
Jericho. Combe (fgure 11) became another
major Pre-Raphaelite patron, buying up
Convent Toughts, Millais’s Te Return of
the Dove to the Ark and Hunt’s A Converted
British Family Sheltering a Christian Missionary
from the Persecution of the Druids, which had
been painted outdoors in Homerton on the
outskirts of London in 1849 while Millais
was painting at Shotover. Tese three
paintings would go on to form the core
of the Ashmolean Museum’s impressive
Pre-Raphaelite collection.26
Combe was a dedicated adherent of the
Oxford Movement. His collection shows
how conducive Pre-Raphaelite aesthetics
and subject matter were to High Church
18. Plan of the city of York, surveyed by Peter Chassereau, published by John Rocque, 1750. Gough Maps Yorkshire 29. 19. South-west prospect of the Cathedral Church of York, by Joseph Baker, engraved by Francois Vivares, 1750. Gough Maps 34 fol. 9.
Anglicans. It would soon include the most famous of all Pre-Raphaelite sacred
paintings, Hunt’s Te Light of the World, now in Keble College Chapel.27 At
the same time, in their uncompromising attention to detail in the study of the
physical world, the paintings in Combe’s collection and the others painted by
Millais in and around Oxford in 1849 and 1850 epitomize the scientifc aspect
FIGURE 10 opposite Charles Collins,
of the Pre-Raphaelite project. Like the Oxford scientists, the Pre-Raphaelites Convent Thoughts, 1851, painted
saw no confict in principle between science and religion. Hunt, Millais and partly in the garden of University
printer Thomas Combe.
Collins put science at the service of religion in their paintings, just as Acland,
Strickland and their colleagues did in their teaching. FIGURE 11 above William Holman
As well as comprehending nature within a Christian worldview, the Hunt, Thomas Combe, 1860.
A portrait of the University
Pre-Raphaelites and the Oxford scientists shared the same basic conception printer and major patron of
of how science worked. Stephens’s claim that science proceeds by ‘experiment the Pre-Raphaelites in Oxford.
22 | temple of science a pre-raphaelite natural history museum | 23
ALSO BY THE AUTHOR
FIGURE 19 above Alexander Munro,
who could set their vision in stone. In Benjamin Woodward (fgure 19) they
found the architect they needed. Woodward was the creative partner within
Built between 1855 and 1860, Oxford University Museum of Natural Provincial towns in Britain grew in size and importance in the
Benjamin Woodward, 1861. A Deane & Woodward. Te senior partner was Sir Tomas Deane, who had
History is the extraordinary result of close collaboration between eighteenth century. Ports such as Glasgow and Liverpool greatly
memorial to the architect of the
Oxford University Museum. been friends with Acland since the late 1830s.64 He was well connected, but
he was already in his sixties by this point and had begun to take a back seat.
FIGURE 20 opposite The interior of the
In practice, the frm was now run by the two junior partners. Woodward,
Museum Building at Trinity College
Dublin, 1854–60, designed and who had joined the frm in 1846, was the chief designer while Deane’s son,
built by Deane & Woodward. Like Tomas Newenham Deane, handled the business side.
the Oxford University Museum, it
includes columns in various marbles A careful student of Ruskin’s ideas, Woodward was one of the most
topped with natural history carvings. imaginative architects of the Gothic Revival. He was a quiet but impressive
artists and scientists. Inspired by John Ruskin, the architect expanded, while industrial centres such as Birmingham and
40 | temple of science
Benjamin Woodward and the Oxford scientists worked with leading Manchester flourished. Market towns outside London developed as
Pre-Raphaelite artists on the design and decoration of the building. commercial centres or as destinations offering spa treatments as in
The decorative art was modelled on the Pre-Raphaelite principle Bath, horse racing in Newmarket or naval services in Portsmouth.
of meticulous observation of nature, itself indebted to science,
Containing over 100 images of towns in England, Wales and
while individual artists designed architectural details and carved London: Prints & Drawings before 1800
Scotland, this book draws on the extensive Gough Collection in
portrait statues of influential scientists. The entire structure was an 9781851244126 illus HB £30.00
the Bodleian Library. Contemporary prints and drawings provide
experiment in using architecture and art to communicate natural
a powerful visual record of the development of the town in this
history, modern science and natural theology.
JOHN HOLMES is Professor of Victorian period, and finely drawn prospects and maps – made with greater
Literature and Culture at the University Temple of Science sets out the history of the campaign to build the accuracy than ever before – reveal their early development.
of Birmingham. museum before taking the reader on a tour of art in the museum BERNARD NURSE is the former
This book also includes perceptive observations from the journals Librarian of the Society of Antiquaries
itself. It looks at the facade and the central court, with their
and letters of collector Richard Gough (1735–1809), who travelled of London.
beautiful natural history carvings and marble columns illustrating
throughout the country on the cusp of the industrial age.
184 pp, 250 x 210 mm different geological strata, and at the pantheon of scientists.
c.100 colour illus Together they form the world’s finest collection of Pre-Raphaelite
9781851245567 sculpture. The story of one of the most remarkable collaborations 224 pp, 238 x 278 mm
HB £35.00 between scientists and artists in European art is told here with c.116 colour illus
November 2020 lavish illustrations. 9781851245178
In association with Oxford University HB £35.00
Museum of Natural History November 2020
30 RECENT HIGHLIGHTS www.bodleianshop.co.uk RECENT HIGHLIGHTS 31REVISED EDITION
Merton College
A Brief History Library
of the Bodleian
An Illustrated History
Library
Julia C. Walworth
Mary Clapinson
The main imagery in
the medieval library
windows is found in the
colourful roundels set into
grisaille glass. The visual
references to St John the
baptist through the agnus
dei (lamb of god) link the
library symbolically to
ch ap t e r 2 the nearby college chapel
and evoke the college
The early years,
community as a whole.
Perhaps the reference to
St John was also a subtle
way of acknowledging
1602–1652
John bloxham, who had
participated in planning
the library and was
elected warden in 1375.
I
n 1598 , at t h e ag e of f i f t y- t h r e e , Thomas Bodley
was still ambitious to seek infuence in another sphere in which to
‘doe the true part of a proftable member of the State’,1 as he put it in
his autobiography. He rightly reckoned that his scholarly and linguistic century, the new building formed a quadrangle, known until The surviving double- the library provided a second anchor, forming an axis of
background and his diplomatic experience would be useful assets, and we the eighteenth century as the ‘“Little” Quadrangle’. The sided lectern desks
corporate treasure, both literal and intellectual. Residential
in the church of St
know that he had suffcient means to fnance the enterprise, for he had corner of this quadrangle nearest the hall and the sacristy was Walburga in Zutphen in rooms for fellows occupied connecting wings and the ground
not only inherited a modest fortune from his father but had also married anchored by the stone-built muniment tower (or treasury), the netherlands date floor of the library.
from the mid-sixteenth
a rich widow. His wife Ann’s frst husband, John Ball, a wealthy merchant erected in the late thirteenth century to keep valuables and the century but provide an Each of the two library wings had a series of single windows
and mayor of Totnes in Devon, had died in March 1586, leaving her with even more precious charters and administrative documents idea of the appearance of on either side running the length of the room, and the larger
the double-sided merton
seven children (the eldest of whom was only twelve) and a considerable relating to the college’s property (on which the college’s desks some 200 years space at the junction of the two wings was lit by much taller
fortune amassed through trade with northern France. Bodley married very existence depended). On the opposite side of the newly earlier. double windows. Furnishing of the library continued for more
Ann Ball in July 1586, and it was to a large extent her fortune that formed quadrangle, the intersection of the two wings of than a decade. The west wing was furnished first, and then
enabled him to turn his attention to his old university and in particular
to the restoration of its library ‘which then in every part lay ruined and
wast[e]’.2 Later historians were to point out the irony of a library so 32 MERTON COLLEGE LIBRARY fourTeenTh and fifTeenTh CenTurieS 33
closely associated in its early years with Protestant theology having been
founded with money made by selling pilchards to Catholic France.
This brief history of Europe’s oldest academic library traces its
Writing to the vice-chancellor in February 1598, Bodley offered to
rectify this sorry state of affairs, and ‘to take the charge and cost’3 of
Fig. 9 The Divinity School from William Combe, A History of the University
of Oxford (1814).
23
origins in the thirteenth century, when a new type of community of
scholars was first being set up, through to the present day and its
144 pp, 220 x 173 mm
multiple functions as a working college library, a unique resource
c.85 colour illus
for researchers and a delight for curious visitors.
… indispensable to researchers, 9781851245390
students, and general readers. Featuring a timeline and a plan of the college, this book will be of PB with flaps £15.00
– Library & Information History interest to historians, alumni and tourists alike. September 2020
How did a library founded over 400 years ago grow to become
the world-renowned institution it is today, home to over thirteen Jewish Treasures
million items?
from Oxford
From its foundation by Sir Thomas Bodley in 1598 to the opening Libraries
MARY CLAPINSON was on the staff of of the Weston Library in 2015, this illustrated account shows how
the Library’s history was involved with the British monarchy and Edited by Rebecca Abrams
the Western Manuscript Department
political events throughout the centuries. The history of the Library and César Merchán-Hamann
in the Bodleian Library for thirty-five
years. Appointed Keeper of Western is also a history of collectors and collections, and this book traces
Manuscripts in 1986, she was the the story of major donations and purchases, making use of the
first woman to hold a Keepership in Library’s own substantial archives to show how it came to house key
the Bodleian. She is a Fellow of the items such as early confirmations of Magna Carta, Shakespeare’s
Society of Antiquaries and of the First Folio and the manuscript of Jane Austen’s earliest writings,
Royal Historical Society, and Emeritus among many others.
Fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford, her
Beautifully illustrated with prints, portraits, manuscripts and
undergraduate college.
archival material, this book is essential reading for anyone
Saved for posterity by religious scholarship, intellectual rivalry
interested in the history of libraries and collections.
and political ambition, these extraordinary collections also detail
264 pp, 234 x 156 mm the consumption and circulation of knowledge across the centu- 320 pp, 259 x 237 mm
c.100 colour illus ries, forming a social and cultural history of objects moved across 136 colour illus
9781851245444 borders, from person to person. Together, they offer a fascinating 9781851245024
HB £25.00 journey through Jewish intellectual and social history from the HB £35.00
December 2020 tenth to the twentieth century. May 2020
32 RECENT HIGHLIGHTS www.bodleianshop.co.uk RECENT HIGHLIGHTS 33The Art of Advertising Birds
Julie Anne Lambert An Anthology
With contributions by Michael
Twyman, Lynda Mugglestone, Edited by Jaqueline Mitchell
Helen Clifford, Ashley Jackson With illustrations by Eric
and David Tomkins Fitch Daglish
2.10 It is uncommon for poverty
to be portrayed as starkly for
commercial purposes as in this
advertisement in which F. Allen 2.11 Although chocolate bars
& Sons exploit the association spectre at the feast with cocoa as a redemptive force for good. In fgure 2.11, another visual Vocabulary operates in equally tactical ways. Science (‘nitrogen’, ‘carbon’) and were produced commercially
of cocoa with the Temperance narrative depicts a temporal sequence from childhood to old age, united by pleasurable nutrition (‘food-value’, ‘fesh-forming’, alongside the impressive-sounding ‘staminal from 1847, cocoa as a beverage
Movement (notably advocated retained its popularity. The verso
images of consumption, in a further pictorial embodiment of the rule of three (three energy’) are prominent, as is the diction of ‘vigour’ and ‘new life’. Cocoa becomes a
by the founder of Rowntree’s stresses that Cadbury’s cocoa is
chocolate, the Quaker Henry vignettes, three cups of Cadbury’s cocoa). Seen vertically, however, the advertisement necessity rather than a luxury, a vital building block of life and superior, as the bar free from alkali, which is present
Rowntree). provides a visual metaphor in which cocoa is meaningfully underpinned by its ‘scientifc’ chart suggests, to meat, eggs and bread. The carefully disinterested and factual tone (it is claimed) in Dutch cocoa.
foundations. The visual rhetoric of a bar chart hence suggests objective rather than (‘In addition, it is interesting to fnd that One Shillingsworth of CADBURY’S COCOA
Chromolithography (c.1884), Chromolithography (1896),
116 × 195 mm. JJ Cocoa, Chocolate
subjective evaluation while tactical citations from the Lancet and Health magazine add contains as much nourishment as can be obtained for Three Shillings spent on some of 147 × 194 mm. JJ Cocoa, Chocolate
and Confectionery 1 (4b) scientifc authority for the claims that are advanced. the best Meat Extracts’) is, in reality, anything but. and Confectionery 1 (19)
56 THE ART OF ADVERTISING THE LANGUAGE OF ADVERTISING 57
256 pp, 259 x 237 mm Copiously illustrated from the world-renowned John Johnson This anthology brings together poetry and prose in celebration 272 pp, 198 x 129 mm
c.200 colour illus Collection of Printed Ephemera and featuring work by influential of birds. It records their behaviour, flight, song and migration, the 25 b&w illus
9781851245383 illustrators John Hassall and Dudley Hardy, this attractive book changes across the seasons and in different habitats – in woodland 9781851245291
HB £30.00 invites us to consider both the intended and unintended messages and pasture, on river, shoreline and at sea – and our own interaction HB £16.99
March 2020 of the advertisements of the past. with them. June 2020
Vintage The Domestic
Advertising Herbal
An A to Z Plants for the Home in the
Seventeenth Century
Julie Anne Lambert
Margaret Willes
Care of Clothes
[The housewife] ought to cloath [her family] outwardly & inwardly;
outwardly for defence from the cold and comelinesse to the person; and
C
inwardly, for cleanlinesse and neatnesse of the skinne.
Gervase Markham, The English Huswife, 1623
T
he seventeenth-century garden and small plots of land could
provide two important materials for clothing: hemp and fax.
CATALOGUES Hemp is a variety of the Cannabis sativa plant, a native of central
Catalogues (which could be single sheets, leafets or The Fred Watts & Co. catalogue for 1896–1897 and western Asia that was brought to Europe by the Goths in the early
booklets) grew in importance as industrial expansion epitomizes late-Victorian upper-class privilege. It
Middle Ages. They apparently valued the plant’s narcotic properties, but
presented the consumer with an increasing choice of includes a very limited selection of clothes for girls
products. Illustration was essential, description alone but focuses on boys, youths, men and servants’ livery. these became weakened when grown in western Europe, so that rather
being insufcient to diferentiate models of cookers, Watts portrays his young male clientele in school wear than the leaves being smoked, the seeds and roots were used for medicines.
grates, lawn mowers, knives, sewing machines, for Eton and Rugby, sailor suits, formal dress and suits Culpeper attributed hemp to Saturn, giving a list of various applications,
hats etc. which emulate adult attire. The sketchy backgrounds
including as a remedy against jaundice, gout and burns. Its principal use,
Clothing catalogues, which usually portray throughout show the trappings of an afuent lifestyle.
the wearer, are among the most attractive, since Unexpectedly among these is a tortoise: these exotic however, was for clothing, together or separately with fax, a member of
they often indicate the domestic setting, pursuits, domestic pets were new in Britain. the genus Linum. Flax is frst recorded being cultivated in the lands of the
accoutrements and attitude of the targeted clientele.
Fertile Crescent, but the boost for the crop came in the eighth century,
27
when Charlemagne promoted its qualities both for hygiene as the material
linen, and for health with linseed oil.
Hemp and hops from the Tudor Pattern Book, accompanied by a vase of pinks. The
production of hemp, along with fax, for clothing was an important industry in the
seventeenth century.
Vintage Advertising: An A to Z takes a fresh look at historical advertis-
ing through a series of thematic and chronological juxtapositions.
144 pp, 196 x 196 mm Richly illustrated from the John Johnson Collection of Printed 232 pp, 210 x 161 mm
109 colour illus Ephemera at the Bodleian Library, this book features a range of Featuring exquisite coloured illustrations from John Gerard’s herbal c.60 colour illus
9781851245406 topics from Art to Zeitgeist, showcasing how nineteenth- and early of 1597 as well as prints, archival material and manuscripts, this book 9781851245130
PB with flaps £15.00 twentieth-century advertisements often capture the spirit of their provides an intriguing and original focus on the domestic history of HB £25.00
April 2020 age and can be rich repositories of information about our past. Stuart England. June 2020
34 RECENT HIGHLIGHTS www.bodleianshop.co.uk RECENT HIGHLIGHTS 35You can also read
