This title is part of the "Nico Editions" imprint, which re-publishes works relating to the history of the book. Each series of works provides sub-series of books on specific subject areas, published in groups of six to 12 volumes. Additionally, there are one-off projects of multi-volume works, as well as collections of articles on themed topics ...
This set of eight volumes focuses on pre-Victorian book illustration, and in particular wood engraving. At the centre of this collection stand two major figures of British illustration, William Blake (1757-1827) and Thomas Bewick (1753-1828). Bewick was one of the major revivalists of wood engraving technique, and Blake has had a large impact on ...
This reference work covers 16 centuries of Scottish lives, from St Patrick in the 4th century through David Hume and the Scottish Enlightenment up until the late Victorian era with the death of General Sir James Hope Grant in 1875. This text was first published in 1832-35. Eminent people in the text include philosophers, theologians, historians, ...
Johannes Peter Mueller (1801-1858) was the most important physiologist of the first half of the 19th century. In his native German he wrote a "Handbuch der Physiologie des Menschen" - a work that brought together a wealth of data about comparative anatomy and physiology, and included many new observations. The "Handbuch" united clinical practice ...
The books being reprinted in this set are all rare and should be useful for studies in the aesthetics of music in the 18th century. Attention has been focused on the subject recently with the publication of Roger Scruton's "The Aesthetics of Music" (1999), which is a comprehensive account of the nature and significance of music from the ...
Ganesha Publishing of England specializes in Western historical sources on Asia, covering the history of Asian studies, modern Asian history, Orientalism, reference works, Asian topography and travel, and Asian religions and philosophy.
Ganesha Publishing of England specializes in Western historical sources on Asia, covering the history of Asian studies, modern Asian history, Orientalism, reference works, Asian topography and travel, and Asian religions and philosophy.
These two volumes reprint the original 1891 edition of the foremost nineteenth-century English-language reference work on Christian missions throughout the world. Entries cover the activities of missionary societies at home and abroad, the history of Christianity in non-western regions, missionary stations, notable missionaries, and Bible versions ...
"Museum Criticum" was a journal established and run from Trinity College, Cambridge, an important centre for classical scholarship, and the college of Richard Porson, a key Greek scholar. The journal contains notes and reviews of classical texts by the likes of Richard Bentley and other articles by Porsonian scholars, including the most talented ...
Ganesha Publishing of England specializes in Western historical sources on Asia, covering the history of Asian studies, modern Asian history, Orientalism, reference works, Asian topography and travel, and Asian religions and philosophy.
In the two decades prior to World War I, a number of British writers and consultants had begun to address the problems of management in the modern world. Although they were aware of similar developments in America, where scientific management was becoming the latest business fashion, these writers sought to develop distinctly British approaches to ...
This title is part of the "Nico Editions" imprint, which re-publishes works relating to the history of the book. Each series of works provides sub-series of books on specific subject areas, published in groups of six to 12 volumes. Additionally, there are one-off projects of multi-volume works, as well as collections of articles on themed topics ...
This four-volume journal contains articles on Greek, English, German and Latin language, and the history and chronology of the ancient world. The Philological Museum had two bases in England; the Cambridge Etymological Society (1830-2), some of whose papers appeared in the journal, and more widely, in the reformist grouping within the Established ...
Satow (1843-1929) served as a British minister during the Meiji government. While the first portion of his Collected Worksi contained major texts and monographs, this five-volume set brings together his journal and newspaper articles, pamphlets, and introductions or contributions to various books.
Ganesha Publishing of England specializes in Western historical sources on Asia, covering the history of Asian studies, modern Asian history, Orientalism, reference works, Asian topography and travel, and Asian religions and philosophy.
Ganesha Publishing of England specializes in Western historical sources on Asia, covering the history of Asian studies, modern Asian history, Orientalism, reference works, Asian topography and travel, and Asian religions and philosophy.
This title is part of the "Nico Editions" imprint, which re-publishes works relating to the history of the book. Each series of works provides sub-series of books on specific subject areas, published in groups of six to 12 volumes. Additionally, there are one-off projects of multi-volume works, as well as collections of articles on themed topics ...
International trade has been one of the primary factors in the development of the modern world economy. The trend towards greater foreign trade was already well established by the 1820s and its growth was enabled by the activities of "cambists", the name given to those skilled in exchange, especially in foreign currencies. The creation of a ready ...
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