Books! Books! Books! Explore the Amazing Collection of the British Library
by Mick Manning
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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.Tags
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Funny, I didn't even know there was a separate British Library, because it doesn't appear in the very dated novels I read. This is a creatively illustrated book using a kind of collage of realistic depictions of the books and more cartoon-like depictions of the authors or action of the books.
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- Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 027.541 — Computer science, information & general works Library & information sciences General libraries and archives State and government Europe British Isles -- Ireland and Scotland
- LCC
- Z792 .B85932 — Bibliography, Library Science and Information Resources Libraries Library reports. History. Statistics
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- 36
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- (3.50)
- Languages
- English
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- Paper
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- 2
