Maps from the British Library: Wrapping Paper Book, Paperback - British Library

Twelve sheets of gift wrap, featuring maps from the British Library, the UK's national libraryTwelve sheets of 19.5 x 27.5 inch wrapping paper are ...

This is an atlas with a difference. This atlas can help us to travel in a way that regular atlases do not, because by looking at old maps and getti...

The Library has one of the largest and most impressivecartographic collections in the world, including manuscriptmaps and atlases, administrative r...

This new collection of fifteen short stories, six folk tales and four poems ranging from 1789 to 1933 offers a chilling literary tour of the coasts...

This anthology edited by turn-of-the-century fiction expert Mike Ashley plucks from the obscure world of salty, grim and supernatural sea stories. ...

Offering a bounty of lost or forgotten strange and Gothic tales set in Cornwall, Cornish Horrors explores the rich folklore and traditions of the r...

Written and selected by the curatorial team, the dazzling, large-format Gold Exhibition Highlights Book showcases the British Library's exceptional...

As well as holding some of the world's most prized cultural treasures, the British Library is the repository of the nation's collective memory. In ...

Children are taken on an engaging and wonderfully visual journey all around the globe that starts and ends in London in this book. With stories abo...

Traces the varied and vital role of natural history illustration in science and art since the 15th century. Features 280 colour illustrations, incl...

A spectacular, puzzle-fuelled, myth-busting journey through the hidden history of Britain in 500 questions.Publisher: British Library PublishingAut...

Explore the cartographic treasures of the British Library's extensive map archive, and add your own colour.

In this highly original work Jeremy Black, one of world's leading military and cartographic historians, shows how fundamental maps were to the conf...

Drawing on the British Library's extensive map collection, the story of North America's rich history from settlement and war to transport and tourism.

This beautifully illustrated book, published to coincide with an interactive landmark British Library exhibition, celebrates the act of writing fro...

Woods play an important role in horror, fantasy, the gothic and the weird. They are places in which strange things happen, where you often can't se...

Talented sportsmen inexplicably go absent without leave, crafty gamblers conspire in the hope of making a killing, and personal rivalries and jealo...

This expertly curated thespian anthology features fourteen stories from giants of the classic crime genre such as Dorothy L. Sayers, Julian Symons ...

Reducere. In 1966, Edward Hoagland made a three-month excursion into the wild country of British Columbia and encountered a way of life that was disappearing...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Accompanying a landmark British Library exhibition, this book examines the original evidence relating to the two powerful queens and their politics...

Written by leading Leonardo experts from London and Florence, and accompanying a major British Library exhibition, this fascinating new book reveal...

This collection of fourteen stories corrals plots centred around cats, dogs and insects alongside more exotic incidents involving gorillas, parakee...

The sea monsters on medieval and Renaissance maps, whether swimming vigorously, gamboling amid the waves, attacking ships, or simply displaying the...

In this collection, featuring stories from the 1880s to the 1960s, we are taken to the remote future and back to the distant past. We are trapped i...

Join humanity on the brink of destruction in 13 doom-laden visions from the 1890s to the 1960s, featuring rare tales from the Library's vaults.

Two dead bodies and a Christmas stocking weaponised. A Postman murdered delivering cards on Christmas morning. A Christmas tree growing over a forg...

Divided into four sections exploring noises from invisible presences, ghostly voices, possessed technology and the power of extreme levels of sound...

A look at the design and history of British packaging between 1920 and 1970.

The excruciating beauty, exoticism and mystery of tattoos is laid bare in this new collection of 12 stories ranging from the 1880s to the 1940s.

This ground-breaking book, now in paperback, is the first comprehensive history of horror fiction to take readers from the first Gothic novel in 17...

Welcome to the second new collection of dark Christmas stories in the Tales of the Weird series, ushering in a fresh host of nightmarish phantoms a...

In this compelling new collection of short stories from SF's classic age our visions of `other' are shown in a myriad of forms - beings from other ...

This new collection presents seventeen classic stories, spanning a period from the 1880s to the 1970s, by a host of Scottish authors alongside writ...

As the fog thickens and the smoky dark sweeps across the capital, strange stories emerge from all over the city. Waiting in the shadowy streets are...

A new edition of the history of mapping the seas, richly illustrated with more than 100 rare and antique maps. Redesigned and updated with new mate...

Join Mike Ashley on a characterful tour of the most ingenious and often forgotten books from the rich history of classic British science fiction.Il...

Publisher: Anglo-Saxon BooksAuthor(s): British LibraryIllustration(s): IllustrationsTranslator: Debby BanhamNumber of pages: 96Publication date: 19...

Assembled with parts from the late 19th century to the 1960s, this new collection of classic stories warns of the possible threats, both comic and ...

In June 1940, Hitler ordered his generals to organize the invasion of Britain under a plan codenamed Operation Sealion, drawing up a complex set of...

A new title in the popular classic crime series. Edited and introduced by Martin Edwards, the }British Library{ collection helps to provide an insi...

A collection of classic and spell-binding tales, this is the perfect title for fans of the supernatural. Set in the English countryside, each offer...

Ten sheets of wrapping paper featuring herb patterns inspired by the book Herbarium.