Author: Vincent Figgins
Publisher: London : Printing Historical Society
ISBN:
Category : Pilots and pilotage
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Vincent Figgins: Type Specimens, 1801 and 1815, Reproduced in Facsimile
Author: Vincent Figgins
Publisher: London : Printing Historical Society
ISBN:
Category : Pilots and pilotage
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher: London : Printing Historical Society
ISBN:
Category : Pilots and pilotage
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The Love of Strangers
Author: Nile Green
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691210403
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
How a group of Iranian students sought love and learning in Jane Austen's London In July 1815, six Iranian students arrived in London under the escort of their chaperone, Captain Joseph D'Arcy. Their mission was to master the modern sciences behind the rapid rise of Europe. Over the next four years, they lived both the low life and high life of Regency London, from being down and out after their abandonment by D’Arcy to charming their way into society and landing on the gossip pages. The Love of Strangers tells the story of their search for love and learning in Jane Austen’s England. Drawing on the Persian diary of the student Mirza Salih and the letters of his companions, Nile Green vividly describes how these adaptable Muslim migrants learned to enjoy the opera and take the waters at Bath. But there was more than frivolity to their student years in London. Burdened with acquiring the technology to defend Iran against Russia, they talked their way into the observatories, hospitals, and steam-powered factories that placed England at the forefront of the scientific revolution. All the while, Salih dreamed of becoming the first Muslim to study at Oxford. The Love of Strangers chronicles the frustration and fellowship of six young men abroad to open a unique window onto the transformative encounter between an Evangelical England and an Islamic Iran at the dawn of the modern age. This is that rarest of books about the Middle East and the West: a story of friendships.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691210403
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
How a group of Iranian students sought love and learning in Jane Austen's London In July 1815, six Iranian students arrived in London under the escort of their chaperone, Captain Joseph D'Arcy. Their mission was to master the modern sciences behind the rapid rise of Europe. Over the next four years, they lived both the low life and high life of Regency London, from being down and out after their abandonment by D’Arcy to charming their way into society and landing on the gossip pages. The Love of Strangers tells the story of their search for love and learning in Jane Austen’s England. Drawing on the Persian diary of the student Mirza Salih and the letters of his companions, Nile Green vividly describes how these adaptable Muslim migrants learned to enjoy the opera and take the waters at Bath. But there was more than frivolity to their student years in London. Burdened with acquiring the technology to defend Iran against Russia, they talked their way into the observatories, hospitals, and steam-powered factories that placed England at the forefront of the scientific revolution. All the while, Salih dreamed of becoming the first Muslim to study at Oxford. The Love of Strangers chronicles the frustration and fellowship of six young men abroad to open a unique window onto the transformative encounter between an Evangelical England and an Islamic Iran at the dawn of the modern age. This is that rarest of books about the Middle East and the West: a story of friendships.
The Spread of Printing. Eastern Hemisphere: Australia
Author: D H Borchardt
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004535756
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
This volume is published as part of the series The Spread of Printing, a history of printing outside Continental Europe and Great Britain. The print edition is available as a set of eleven volumes (9789063000257).
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004535756
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
This volume is published as part of the series The Spread of Printing, a history of printing outside Continental Europe and Great Britain. The print edition is available as a set of eleven volumes (9789063000257).
The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America
Author: Bibliographical Society of America
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 790
Book Description
Vincent Figgins Type Specimens 1801 and 1815
Author: Berthold Wolpe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
The Book Collector
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Bloomsbury Book Auctions (Firm)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Encyclopedia of the Book
Author: Geoffrey Ashall Glaister
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
It is an all-encompassing encyclopedia which covers all aspects of the book-- from specific biographies of publishers, book designers, printers, etc.-- and histories of the book's development from all angles.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
It is an all-encompassing encyclopedia which covers all aspects of the book-- from specific biographies of publishers, book designers, printers, etc.-- and histories of the book's development from all angles.
National Union Catalog
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
Journal of the Royal Society of Arts
Author: Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 1106
Book Description