Bodleian Library Publishing SPRING 2021 Bodleian Library Publishing SPRING 2021 Founded in 1602, the Bodleian Library is one of the oldest libraries in Britain and the largest university library in Europe. Since 1610, it has been entitled to receive a copy of every book published in the British Isles. The Bodleian collections, built up through benefaction, purchase and legal deposit, are exceptionally diverse, spanning every corner of the globe and embracing almost every form of written work and the book arts. With over thirteen million items and outstanding special collections, the Bodleian draws readers from every continent and continues to inspire generations of researchers as well as the wider public who enjoy its exhibitions, displays, public lectures and other events. Increasingly, its unique collections are available to all digitally. Bodleian Library Publishing helps to bring some of the riches of Oxford’s libraries to readers around the world through a range of beautiful and authoritative books. We publish approximately twenty-five new books a year on a wide range of subjects, including titles related to our exhibitions, illustrated and non-illustrated books, facsimiles, children’s books and stationery. We have a current backlist of over 250 titles. Cover image Illustrations from Johann Wilhelm All of our profits are returned to the Bodleian Phytanthoza Iconographia Weinmann’s , 1737–1745. and help support the Library’s work in curating, Bodleian Library, Arch.Nat. hist. G 5-12. Taken from A Cornucopia of Fruit & Vegetables, page 2. conserving and expanding its rich archives, helping to maintain the Bodleian’s position as one of the Image opposite Gallery, Upper Reading Room, Radcliffe Camera © Featherstonhaugh pre-eminent libraries in the world. All prices and information are correct at time of going to press and may be subject to change without further notice. Design by Sue Rudge Design & Communication www.bodleianshop.co.uk INTRODUCTION 1 A Cornucopia of Fruit & Vegetables Illustrations from an Eighteenth-Century Botanical Treasury Caroline Ball ALSO BY THE AUTHOR Heritage Apples 9781851245161 illus HB £25.00 Close-up photographs of plump apricots, juicy mangoes, crisp lettuce … these are familiar to us all through cookery books and garden guides. But seeing fruit and vegetables as detailed art, viewed through eighteenth-century eyes, is something very different – and more interesting. CAROLINE BALL is an editor, copywriter and occasional translator Thanks to intrepid explorers and plant-hunters, Britain and the rest who has written on many subjects, but of Europe have long enjoyed a wide and wonderful array of fruit has a particular interest in horticulture, and vegetables. Some wealthy households even created orangeries garden history and the plant-hunters, and glasshouses for tender exotics and special pits in which to raise both men and women, who have made pineapples, while tomatoes, sweetcorn and runner beans from the our gardens and countryside the rich New World expanded the culinary repertoire. and diverse habitats they are today. She is a keen gardener and author of This wealth of choice attracted interest beyond the kitchen and Heritage Apples, and has contributed garden. In the 1730s Johann Wilhelm Weinmann, a prosperous to other books, including a study of Bavarian apothecary, produced the first volume of a comprehensive William Morris and a guide to A to Z of plants, meticulously documented, and lavishly illustrated historical sites. by botanical artists. A Cornucopia of Fruit & Vegetables is a glimpse into his world. It features exquisite illustrations of the edible plants in his historic treasury, allowing us to enjoy the sight of swan- 152 pp, 190 x 150 mm necked gourds and horned lemons, smile at silkworms hovering c.100 colour illus over mulberries and delight at the quirkiness of ‘strawberry 9781851245666 spinach’ … a delicious medley of garden produce and much else. HB £15.00 May 2021 www.bodleianshop.co.uk NEW 3 A Cornucopia of Fruit & Vegetables illustrations from an eighteenth-century botanical treasury Caroline Ball 82 54 55 130 131 4 NEW www.bodleianshop.co.uk NEW 5 Roots to Seeds 400 Years of Oxford Botany Stephen A. Harris VISIT THE EXHIBITION Bodleian Libraries, Oxford Roots to Seeds: 400 Years of Oxford Botany May – October 2021 ALSO BY THE AUTHOR Since 1621, and the foundation of the Oxford Botanic Garden, Oxford has built up an outstanding collection of plant specimens, botanical illustrations and rare books on plant classification, collecting and plant biology. These archives, and the living plants in the Garden, are integral to the study of botany in the University. Planting Paradise: Cultivating the Garden 1501–1900 This book profiles the botanists and collections which have helped 9781851243433 illus HB £29.99 to transform our understanding of the biology of plants over the past four centuries, focusing on plant classification, experimental botany, building botanical collections, agriculture and forestry and botanical education. Highlights include a selection of Ferdinand Bauer’s renowned illustrations for Flora Graeca – an extraordinarily lavish and detailed eighteenth-century botanical publication of plants found in the Eastern Mediterranean – and rare plant speci- STEPHEN A. HARRIS is Druce Curator mens from the herbaria, such as Fairchild’s Mule (the first artificially of Oxford University Herbaria. created hybrid plant). Together with seventeenth-century herbals, elegant garden plans, 224 pp, 259 x 237 mm plant models and fossil slides, these items from the archives all help c.80 colour illus to tell the story of botanical science in Oxford and the intrepid bota- 9781851245611 nists who devoted themselves to the essential study of plants. HB £40.00 May 2021 In association with Oxford Botanic Garden www.bodleianshop.co.uk NEW 7 Martha Lloyd’s Household Book The Original Manuscript from Jane Austen’s Kitchen Introduced with annotated transcription by Julienne Gehrer Foreword by Deirdre Le Faye ALSO OF INTEREST This is the first facsimile publication of Martha Lloyd’s Household Book, the manuscript cookbook of Jane Austen’s closest friend. Martha’s notebook is reproduced in a colour facsimile section with complete transcription and detailed annotation. Introductory chapters discuss its place among other household books of the eighteenth century. Martha Lloyd befriended a young Jane Austen and later lived Jane Austen: The Chawton Letters Kathryn Sutherland with Jane, her sister Cassandra and their mother at the cottage 9781851244744 illus HB £14.99 in Chawton, Hampshire, where Jane wrote or revised her novels. Martha later married into the Austen family. Her collection features recipes and remedies handwritten during a period of over thirty JULIENNE GEHRER is an author, years and includes the only surviving recipes from Mrs Austen and journalist and food historian who Captain Francis Austen, Jane’s mother and brother. lectures on Jane Austen and the long eighteenth century. There are many connections between Martha’s book and Jane Austen’s writing, including white soup from Pride and Prejudice and the author’s favourites – toasted cheese and mead. The family, culinary and literary connections detailed in the introductory 312 pp, 223 x 171 mm chapters of this work give a fascinating perspective on the time and c.85 colour illus manner in which both women lived, thanks to this extraordinary 9781851245604 artefact passed down through the Austen family. HB £30.00 June 2021 In association with Jane Austen's House Image opposite © Julienne Gehrer www.bodleianshop.co.uk NEW 9 From the Vulgate Hyphens & to the Vernacular Hashtags* Four Debates on an English *The stories behind the Question c.1400 symbols on our keyboards Edited by Elizabeth Solopova, Claire Cock-Starkey Jeremy Catto and Anne Hudson Translation is at the centre of Christianity, scripturally, as reflected in the biblical stories of the tower of Babel, or of the apostles’ speaking in tongues after the Ascension, and historically, where arguments about it were dominant in Councils, such as those of Trent or the Second Vatican Council of 1962–64, which, it should be recalled, privileged the use of the vernacular in liturgy. The punctuation marks, mathematical symbols and glyphs The four texts edited here discuss the legitimacy of using the which haunt the edges of our keyboards have evolved over ALSO BY THE AUTHOR many hundreds of years. They shape our understanding of texts, ELIZABETH SOLOPOVA is a Research vernacular language for scriptural citation. This question in England calculations and online interactions. Without these symbols all texts Fellow and lecturer at the English became central to the perception of the followers of John Wyclif would run in endless unbroken lines of letters and numbers. Faculty, University of Oxford. JEREMY (sometimes known as Lollards): between 1409 and 1530 the use of English scriptures was severely impeded by the established CATTO (1939–2018) was Fellow Many hands and minds have created, refined and promulgated the church, and an episcopal licence was required for its possession Emeritus of Oriel College in the symbols which give form to our written communication. Through or dissemination. The issue evidently aroused academic interest, University of Oxford. ANNE HUDSON individual entries discussing the story behind each example, especially in Oxford, where the first complete English translation is a Fellow of the British Academy, Hyphens & Hashtags reveals the long road many of these special seems to have originated. The three Latin works here survive Professor Emerita (personal chair) characters have taken on their way into general use. In the digital complete, each in a single manuscript: of these texts two, written by of Medieval English at the English age of communication, some symbols have gained an additional The Real McCoy and 149 Other Eponyms a Franciscan, William Butler, and by a Dominican, Thomas Palmer, Faculty and an Honorary Fellow of meaning or a new lease of life – the colon now doubles up as the 9781851244980 HB £9.99 are wholly hostile to translation.