| Edition |
First U.S. edition. |
| Description |
42 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
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 |
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. |
| Subject |
British Library -- Juvenile literature.
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Libraries -- Juvenile literature.
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| Added Author |
Granström, Brita, author.
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| ISBN |
9780763697570 (hardcover) |
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0763697575 (hardcover) |
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