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Floarea Soarelui nr 45, Ted Dougherty Sunflower vila 8, Voluntari, T +44 (0)20 7482 2439 Ilfov, Romania [email protected] [email protected] Writing Making Your Mark Edited by Ewan Clayton Writing surrounds us in the modern world – but how did it develop into the systems we use today, and given the technological developments of the twenty-first century, what does its future hold? This beautifully illustrated book, published to coincide with an interactive landmark British Library exhibition, celebrates the act of writing from across the globe. Exploring the history of writing and including more than 150 illustrations from carved stone Hardback with jacket £40 inscriptions and medieval manuscripts ISBN 978 0 7123 5253 6 Paperback £25 to samples of early printing, modern ISBN 978 0 7123 5248 2 handwriting and digital inputting 272 Pages, 280 x 220 mm systems, it reflects on the use of writing Over 100 colour illustrations over the last 5,000 years and challenges Publishing April 2019 our preconceptions about writing’s Ewan Clayton is Professor in Design decline in the digital age. at the University of Sunderland. For twelve years he worked as a consultant to Xerox PARC, the research lab in California that developed much of the digital technology underpinning the world of digital communications that we know today. He is also a calligrapher and lettering artist. He grew up in and around a craft community at Ditchling in Sussex founded by Eric Gill. Ewan’s book The Golden Thread, a history of writing, was published in 2013 and has been translated into a number of languages. 02 New Titles New Titles 03 Leonardo da Vinci A Mind in Motion Edited by Juliana Barone Written by leading Leonardo experts from London and Florence, and accompanying a major British Library exhibition, this fascinating new book reveals the central importance of motion in Leonardo’s art and thought. Large-scale reproductions of Leonardo’s handwritten notes include clear illustrations of dozens of pages from Codex Arundel, alongside other manuscripts and paintings. Leonardo’s ingenious, cutting-edge ideas about the art and physics of motion – the dynamics of motion in water; movement of the human form; and motion as a force in artistic composition – are explained in a clear and accessible form as never before. Hardback £20 ISBN 978 0 7123 5283 3 160 pages, 255 x 195 mm 70 colour illustrations Publishing June 2019 Juliana Barone is Associate Research Fellow in the Department of History of Art at Birkbeck College, London. Her doctoral thesis at Oxford University was on Leonardo da Vinci and motion. 04 New Titles New Titles 05 The Globetrotter Excursions in the East Amy Miller In the mid-nineteenth century, as routes opened up, a new generation of travellers embarked on excursions to China, India and Japan. Globetrotters – leisure tourists with a keen interest in experiencing authentic culture – flocked to the East, casting aside preconceptions and gravitating towards what they hoped to be the unchanged landscapes and traditions of Eastern cultures. The relics of their travels – the food they consumed and the souvenirs they brought back – allowed globetrotters to distinguish themselves from common tourists. They proudly returned with accounts that presented a global East, challenging public assumptions about the cultures they had visited and Hardback £30 charting a journey of self-transformation ISBN 978 0 7123 5258 1 through travel. 256 pages, 240 x 165 mm Over 100 colour illustrations Publishing May 2019 Amy Miller is currently completing a PhD on the history and material culture of the global tourist in the nineteenth century at University College London. She has an MA from the Bard Graduate Center, New York, in Decorative Arts and Material Culture Studies. Formerly Curator of Decorative Arts and Material Culture at the National Maritime Museum, she is the author of Dressed to Kill: Naval Uniform, Masculinity and Fashion 1748–1857. 06 New Titles New Titles 07 Alice’s Adventures Under Ground Playing Jane The Original Manuscript Jane Austen Adapted for Drawing-room Performance Lewis Carroll Rosina Filippi One ‘golden afternoon’ in Oxford, The grasping social climber, the tiresome in July 1862, the Reverend Charles neighbour, the spirited heroine, the most Lutwidge Dodgson accompanied unsuitable of suitors, and, of course, the three young sisters, Lorina, Alice, and perfect love match, are all some of Jane Edith, on a boating trip. To keep the Austen’s timeless literary inventions. children amused, Dodgson began to tell Mistress of a sharp wit, Austen’s a tale about an inquisitive youngster observations on society and the roles called Alice, and her escapades in an and rights of women are familiar today underground world. Two years later, on not only through her novels but from the urgings of the heroine, Alice Liddell, countless screen and stage adaptations. he wrote the tale down and gave it to her However, the original dramatisation as an early Christmas gift. of Austen was first published in 1895, by Victorian feminist and actor Rosina Dodgson’s story, later revised and Filippi, who skilfully adapted iconic illustrated by John Tenniel, would go scenes from Austen’s novels into one- on to become one of the most famous act plays for performance. Playing Jane NEW and best-loved children’s books of all evokes the romance of Victorian drawing- EDITION time – published as Alice’s Adventures in room entertainment at its best, and with Wonderland, under the pen name Lewis accompanying stage directions and advice Hardback £14.99 Carroll. However, the original tale – Hardback £9.99 on the correct silks and muslins to wear, ISBN 978 0 7123 5243 7 Alice’s Adventures Under Ground ISBN 978 0 7123 5223 9 you too can learn how to play Jane. 128 pages, 187 x 124 mm – remains less well-known. In this 160 pages, 178 x 111 mm 42 illustrations facsimile edition of Dodgson’s Includes illustrations The Plays Publishing April 2019 Publishing February 2019 manuscript – now one of the British Literary tastes – Northanger Abbey Lewis Carroll (1832–98) is the Library’s most treasured possessions Rosina Filippi (1866–1930) was a The Settlement Question – Sense and Sensibility pseudonym of mathematician Charles – with its accompanying commentary progressive actor and director who The Reading of Jane Fairfax’s Letter – Emma Lutwidge Dodgson, which he adopted by former British Library curator Sally was associated with many of the A Strawberry Picnic – Emma when publishing his famous children’s Brown, modern readers can enjoy the theatrical greats of her generation. Three Loves – Emma novels and nonsense verse. Best expressive story as it was first told. Filippi was also an advocate for known for his fantastical tale Alice’s women’s rights and was the first The Proposal of Mr Collins – Pride and Prejudice Adventures in Wonderland (1865), person to dramatise Jane Austen Lady Catherine’s Visit – Pride and Prejudice Carroll later published Through the for performance. Margaret Fletcher Looking Glass and What Alice Found (1862–1943) was an English illustrator There (1871). Carroll was an avid and amateur actor. She was a social letter-writer and wrote numerous critic and feminist and went on to stories and poems, including The found the Catholic Women’s League.