Scholars, Poets and Radicals: Discovering Forgotten Lives in the Blackwell Collection by Ricketts, Rita - 2015

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Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. New. New.

Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2015-08-15. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, 2015-08-15. Hardcover. Used:Good.

Bodleian Library, University of Oxford,. Hardback. 302pp. Indexed. Very clean, bright and neat. Near fine, bright copy in like dust jacket . Hardback. 2015.

Hardback. New. Exploring the Blackwell Collections (publishing and bookselling archives), Rita Ricketts discovered diverse characters associated with this world-famous company, between 1830 and 1940; rich fodder for any book or cultural historian.

Bodleian Library, 2015. Hardcover. New. 302 pages. 9.25x6.50x1.50 inches.

-The Bodleian Library (2015)-. Collection. First edition first impression 2015. This copy signed and inscribed by the suthor, xviii+302 pages. Illustrated. Cloth. Near fine in dustjacket. Exploring the Blackwell Collections (publishing and bookselling archives), Rita Ricketts discovered diverse characters associated with this world-famous company, between 1830 and 1940. There is a tailor's son saving souls, a reluctant radical, a hammerman poet, a spellbound princess, pauper apprentices, pioneering women, profligate printers and patriots publishing in protest against the authorities who sent so many to 'certain death' in the First World War. Some became famous: J.R.R. Tolkien, Wilfred Owen, John Betjeman, Dorothy L. Sayers, Vera Brittain, Edith Sitwell and Laurence Binyon, whose name is recollected wherever For the Fallen is read. Most were obscure, yet their memoirs, letters and journals, often disregarded in recorded history, are preserved here. This is what makes the collections a rarity and so… Read More