Bodleian Library

Helme's Translator's Preface explains that she has replaced Campe's group of pupils with a whole family and their parents, observing that children will find that more interesting. She praises the explorers for their...

EPW published at Lichfield her Fairy Tales in Verse.

The Bodleian Library in Oxford published a highly personal work of criticism by PDJ entitled Talking about Detective Fiction, whose proceeds James donated to support the library's activities.

Volume the Third was bought by the British Library . The incomplete manuscript of The Watsons was bought at this sale by a private buyer who placed it on deposit at Queen Mary and Westfield College

Hester Mulso (later HMC ) may have contributed the essay in The World published on 3 July 1755. A contemporary hand in the Bodleian copy (Per 2705 d. 307) ascribes this essay clearly to Mr...

The Bodleian Library has recently acquired a later edition of one of these tales, Vivian, with ME 's autograph revisions in ink and comments in pencil by the recipient of the volume, Mary Sneyd

JS 's final poetry volume, A Pocketful of Pebbles, published in New York by Harcourt Brace , is not held by either the British Library or the Bodleian Library ..

The manuscript also contains fair copies of ten poems and a prayer.John Newbery published a similar tale, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, in 1744. JJ 's work did not reach actual print (as...

Early editions are very rare. Children's book scholar and collector Peter Opie recorded in 1965 his excitement on acquiring a probable second edition of this beloved classic, dating from 1858, to go with his probable...

ME intended her fiction to serve the same broadly didactic purpose, adapted to each rank of society and period of life, as did the directly educational writings in which she collaborated with her father.

The full title was The Reply of the Most Illustrious Cardinall of Perron, to the Answeare of the Most Excellent King of Great Britaine: Perron had published in 1620 his riposte to a letter...

The Bodleian Library 's copy of The Locked Desk has a blue cloth cover (with touches of red) showing two young people at sea in a rowing boat. The cover of a US edition pictured...

Before the appearance of the first volume of her work, nearly fifty years after her death, SB was to some extent known for her songs. Often, however, the songs (some in English and some in...

A Morning in the Bodleian, an essay written collaboratively by Mary Augusta Arnold and her fiancé (later her husband), Thomas Humphry Ward , was privately printed.

George Hickes believed this work to be by SH . He also noted that a section added to it in 1688 in a form then titled The Sacrifice of a devout Christian was identified by...