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Handwritten

Smith Lesley

9781851245956

BOOK DETAILS

Price: $79.99
Format: Hardback
ISBN13: 9781851245956
Published: October 2023

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A celebration of the art of handwriting, introducing famous writers, scientists and historical figures through documents written by their own hands.

The less it is part of everyday life, the more the appeal of handwriting grows. This wonderful selection of treasures from the Bodleian Library introduces remarkable individuals through documents written by their own hands. From the second century BCE to the present, individual lives and relationships are illuminated through the writing that has been left behind. We see Elizabeth I attempting to win over her new stepmother, Alan Bennett working out the character of Mr Toad, Henry Moore advising soap and water for cleaning sculpture and Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin balancing childcare with discovering the structure of penicillin.

Here you will find letters, first drafts, autograph albums and hastily scribbled notes, fair copies, marked-up proofs and doodles. Divided into themed categories, the entries feature novelists Jane Austen, Charlotte Bront, Arthur Conan Doyle and Raymond Chandler; scientists Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein; reformers Emmeline Pankhurst, Florence Nightingale and Mohandas Gandhi; and explorers Walter Ralegh, T.E. Lawrence and Patrick Leigh Fermor among many others. Each of these extraordinary people has passed on a manuscript or document with a fascinating story to tell.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Hardback
ISBN13: 9781851245956
Published: October 2023

Number of pages: 320
Width: 190 mm
Height: 245 mm
Depth: not specified

Publisher: Bodleian Library

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