Antiques & Collectibles

• Author(s): David A (University of Ottawa, Canada) Pare • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCThis book considers one of the liveliest areas of the decorative arts to emerge during the second half o...

• Author(s): Stephen J. Binz • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCScalextric, the ultimate boys' toy, hit the toyshops in 1957. The first ever electric slot-car system, with uncontrollable tinplate ...

• Author(s): Alexandra Walker • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCThis book traces the history of the scent bottle from the alabaster containers of ancient Egypt to mass-produced commercial bottles...

• Author(s): Walter J. Ong • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCSamplers have a long history in Britain and the United States, dating from the sixteenth century. They were originally a collection of...

• Author(s): Jennifer Eades • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCThis is not a study of Romano-British coins per se, but rather a study of hoards found in the former provinces of Britannia. It combi...

• Author(s): Francesca Purcell • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCRoyal Crown Derby by Margaret Sargeant tells the fascinating story of these highly collectible porcelains produced over 250 years.

• Author(s): Geoffrey Hindley • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAccessible to archaeological experts and students alike, PJ Casey's Roman Coinage in Britain is a fascinating investigation of the ...

• Author(s): Stuart Hands • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCRoad signs have never attracted the interest that railway signs have, perhaps because they are so commonplace. There have been directio...

• Author(s): Cliff Richard • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCA history of the vessels used to serve beer in Britain's pubs. The book covers the history of the pint measure and how a fair and accu...

• Author(s): Christopher DeVault • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAlthough Thomas Crapper is most commonly associated with the invention of the flushing toilet, his models were in fact the resul...

• Author(s): Potter Style • Publisher: Potter Style • Publisher Imprint: Potter StyleLet the wise words of Jane Austen inspire your next handwritten note. - With quotes and illustrations from the beloved Pride and Prejudice, these notecards are t...

• Author(s): Yotam Ottolenghi • Publisher: Ebury Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Ebury PublishingYotam Ottolenghi has established himself as one of the most exciting new talents in the world of cookery. This collection of vegetarian recipes inclu...

• Author(s): Richard Bertinet • Publisher: Ebury Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Ebury PublishingThis is a step-by-step guide to making pastry with over 50 recipes.

• Author(s): Natsuo Kirino • Publisher: Vintage Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Vintage PublishingIn the Tokyo suburbs four women work the draining graveyard shift at a boxed-lunch factory. Burdened with chores and heavy debts and isolated from h...

• Author(s): Kimberly J. (Texas A & M University, USA) Vannest • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCThe radio has been part of home entertainment for over 75 years and generations of listeners h...

• Author(s): David Warren • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCOf interest to collectors, this describes, illustrates and identifies forceps, surgical saws, lancets, stethoscopes, syringes, and many...

• Author(s): John J. Winkler • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCOld television embraces more than eighty years of progress, from the crude experiments of John Logie Baird in 1925, through the pion...

• Author(s): Andrew Emmerson • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCFrom its demonstration to Queen Victoria in 1878, through the bake light models of the 1920s and '30s to the chic plastic designs of...

• Author(s): David Maurer • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCPillar boxes were first introduced into Britain at the instigation of novelist and Post Office Surveyor Anthony Trollope. Nowadays the ...

• Author(s): Ben Bergonzi • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCFrom the late 1880s until the end of the 1920s sound recordings in the home could be played on either disc gramophones or cylinder phon...

• Author(s): Roland G.; Gallimore, Ronald Tharp • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAs manufactured goods became more easily available, ladies developed crafts such as needlework, to occupy their i...

• Author(s): Rebecca Patterson • Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Random House Children's UKBella is having one of those days - her biscuit is broken, she has a hurting foot and ballet is too itchy for wo...

• Author(s): Anthony Browne • Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Random House Children's UKOffers a hilarious and personal tribute to the author's Dad (and to dads everywhere).

• Author(s): Anthony Browne • Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Random House Children's UKA warm, hilarious, witty and very personal tribute to Dad (and to dads everywhere) by the ever-brilliant and invent...

• Author(s): Tasneem Zakaria Mehta • Publisher: HarperCollins India • Publisher Imprint: HarperCollins India • BISAC: ArtMuseum objects are time machines. They allow us a peek into a civilisation long past or bring us close to today's issues. Mum...

• Author(s): Babette Cole • Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Random House Children's UKMum and Dad decide it's time to tell their children the facts of life. But do they dare - and do they even really kno...

• Author(s): Gareth Harney • Publisher: Vintage Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Vintage Publishing* A Financial Times Book of the Year 2024 * A Sunday Times and Mail on Sunday Summer Read of 2024*The extraordinary story of ancient Rome, history''...

• Author(s): William Wilson • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAs Britain's most popular sporting marque, MG has emerged as one of a handful of British motoring names to survive into the 21st cent...

• Author(s): Robert Munsch • Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Random House Children's UKLisa Atwood and her family are on vacation, but it isn't all fun in the sun. Something is wrong between her parents....

• Author(s): Gerald Daly • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCThis book provides a concise survey of the development of the longcase clock (popularly called the grandfather clock) in Britain. As wel...

• Author(s): Bruce Gordon • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCThe oldest keys known to exist date from around 4,000 BC in Ancient Egypt. These were simple wooden cylinders that were part of a mecha...

• Author(s): Sam Blake • Publisher: Atlantic Books • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic Books A NUMBER ONE IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER ''Pacey and exciting and totally joyous.'' Jo Spain, author of The Confession________________________You won''t be able t...

• Author(s): Godfrey T Barrett-Lennard • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCJosiah Wedgwood not only transformed the manufacture of pottery and the methods of its distribution but also revolutionise...

• Author(s): Nicholas Allan • Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Random House Children's UKHilarious, classic Christmas tale from the author of Father Christmas Needs a Wee A special new enlarged edition o...

• Author(s): Susannah Walker • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCFrom Coughs and Sneezes Spread Diseases to Keep Calm and Carry On, the Home Front posters from the Second World War have become part...

• Author(s): Henrik Ibsen • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCHarvest, the most critical phase of the farming year, has always required full mobilisation of resources for maximum effort during the ...

• Author(s): Babette Cole • Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Random House Children's UKThe new book in Babette Cole's bestselling series of "family dilemmas that began with "Mummy Laid an Egg."" Puberty. ...

• Author(s): Nadia Shireen • Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Random House Children's UKOnce upon a time there was a wolf called Rolf - a good little wolf who liked baking cakes and was always kind to his...

• Author(s): Eve Eckstein • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCA growing population in the mid-nineteenth century and a wealthier middle class, combined with an increased social awareness, greater l...

• Author(s): Judith Miller • Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Dorling Kindersley LtdCovering more than 3000 years of furniture design, this visual celebration is packed with over 3000 beautiful photographs illustrating every...

• Author(s): Elvire Murail • Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Random House Children's UKA humorous and touching story about the magic of Christmas. Julien's parents talk about Father Christmas endlessly, ...

• Author(s): Philip Caveney • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCSince the early Middle Ages, the Royal and princely families of Europe have conferred a wide range of Orders of Knighthood and Chival...

• Author(s): Christopher Baglee • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCOf the millions of enamel advertising signs produced between 1850 and 1950, only a few thousand survived and the authors describe...

• Author(s): John Burningham • Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Random House Children's UKEdwardo is an ordinary boy, so sometimes he can be a bit grubby or clumsy, a bit cruel or noisy or rude. The more ...

• Author(s): Theo (University of Southern Denmark) van Leeuwen • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCThis book provides a general summary of the history of European firearms, from the earliest design...

• Author(s): Prue Chamberlayne • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCFor many people life in the early twentieth century was not very different from what it had been in the eighteenth century, but af...

• Author(s): Louise Yates • Publisher: Red Fox • Publisher Imprint: Red FoxNow a major Cbeebies show! Dog loves books! It doesn't matter which books; Dog just LOVES books. They could be books about dinosaurs or aliens, Dog doesn't mind. He's just...

• Author(s): Louise Yates • Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Random House Children's UKDog loves books, but one day he receives a strange one in the post - it's blank Soon, Dog realises that this book is...

• Author(s): Bill O'Connor • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCHorse brasses are flat, generally round, ornaments for decorating the harness of draught horses. First devised as charms to keep the a...

• Author(s): Cecil A. Meadows • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCThis book traces the design and evolution of oil lighting, examining in detail the varieties and design features of many of the lam...

• Author(s): Madhur Jaffrey • Publisher: Ebury Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Ebury PublishingMadhur Jaffrey presents over 175 new quick and easy curry recipes.

• Author(s): Kes Gray • Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Random House Children's UKHere comes trouble This Top Secret Super Story featuring the irrepressible Daisy as a spy Daisy is back and this time s...

• Author(s): Paul Auster • Publisher: Faber & Faber • Publisher Imprint: Faber & Faber

• Author(s): Quentin Blake • Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Random House Children's UKClown finds himself thrown head-first into a dustbin with an assortment of other discarded toys. Bravely he takes ch...

• Author(s): Hugh Rock • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCSince the medieval period, mechanical clocks located in churches across Britain have told the time to local communities, or displayed the ...

• Author(s): Nigel Wood • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

• Author(s): Andrew Buxton • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCMost people born before 1950 can remember visiting or working in shops that had cash carriers - cash balls that ran on wooden rails, w...

• Author(s): Alan Meredith • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCThe humble buckle is an oft-taken for granted fastening, yet its usefulness and sturdiness has ensured that it has survived from ancie...

• Author(s): Dr Pamela Peeke • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCABOUT THE BOOKFrom the elegant to the quirky, teapots and coffee pots come in a range of styles and designs and are among the most f...

• Author(s): Mark Miller • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCPopular in various forms the world over, bowling became one of America's favorite pastimes as early as the 1800s. Bowling rules were sta...