Books! books! books! : explore the amazing collection of the British Library
Record details
- ISBN: 0763697575
- ISBN: 9780763697570
- ISBN: 0763697575 : HRD
- ISBN: 9780763697570 : HRD
- ISBN: 0763697575
- ISBN: 9780763697570
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Physical Description:
42 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
print - Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Welcome -- The St. Cuthbert Gospel -- The Lindisfarne Gospels -- Beowulf -- The Magna Carta -- Teh 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. |
Summary, etc.: | Shares the stories behind some of the British Library's rarest and most valuable books, including a giant atlas that requires six people to lift it, Shakespeare folios kept in a bomb-proof room, and a prayer volume carried by a queen to her execution. |
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Subject: | Libraries Libraries Juvenile literature British Library. British Library Juvenile literature |
Available copies
- 8 of 8 copies available at Bibliomation. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Rowayton Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 8 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Rowayton Library | J MAN (Text) | 33625122910362 | Juvenile Red Dot | Available | - |