Wendell Prime 
Fifteenth Century Bibles 
A Study in Bibliography

This book introduces four journals that Henry Foxall (1758 1823) kept during a trip to the British Isles in 1816 1817. It provides unique primary source material, extensively annotated for clarity …

First published in 1967. This journal is a copy of the narrated manuscript of Captain Cook’s last voyage of discovery into the Pacific Ocean. It spans from 1776 to 1779 and includes illustrations and …

This hitherto unpublished first-hand witness account, written in 1968-9, tells the story of a privileged Polish woman whose life was torn apart by the outbreak of the Second World War and Soviet …

In the English language World War I has largely been analysed and understood through the lens of the Western Front. This book addresses this imbalance by examining the war in Eastern and Central …

Prague, 1940-1942. The Nazi-occupied city is locked in a reign of terror under Reinhard Heydrich. The Jewish community experience increasing levels of persecution, as rumours start to swirl of …

I am no good at letters. John Mc Gahern, 1963John Mc Gahern is consistently hailed as one of the finest Irish writers since James Joyce and Samuel Beckett.This volume collects some of the witty, …

First Published in 1968. Including a translators preface, and two volumes, Diary of an Austrian Secretary of Legation (J. G. H.) at the Court of Czar Peter the Great is translated from the Original …

Translated into English for the first time, the letters collected here bring to life one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein. In letters written over forty years, …

I ve never kept a journal , Roland Barthes declared in 1979, or, rather, I ve never known if I should keep one . The form itself, he continued, was inferior and unnecessary , a minor mania of writing …