Stories
- Book extract
What the wind can bring
In this extract from ‘This Book is a Plant’, Amanda Thomson shares a newfound fascination with flowers, and reveals why our relationship with plants can also be complicated.
- Article
Would you like to buy a unicorn?
The story behind why somebody tried to sell Henry Wellcome a unicorn head in 1928.
- Article
The chymist’s trade card
An 18th-century trade card reveals far more than its owner may have intended.
- Article
The solidarity of sickness
Visiting an injured friend in hospital prompts writer Sinéad Gleeson to reflect on the instant rapport forged between compatriots in the kingdom of the sick.
Catalogue
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Ornamentation and improvisation in Mozart / Frederick Neumann.
Neumann, FrederickDate: [1986], ©1986- Books
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Treatise on vocal performance and ornamentation / by Johann Adam Hiller ; translated and edited by Suzanne J. Beicken.
Hiller, Johann Adam, 1728-1804Date: [2001], ©2001- Books
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Pattern and person : ornament, society, and self in classical China / Martin J. Powers.
Powers, Martin Joseph, 1949-Date: 2006- Books
Charles Ackers' ornament usage / by J.C. Ross.
Ross, J. C., 1938-Date: 1990- Books
The printed book of the Renaissance : three lectures on type, illustration, ornament / [Ernst Philip Goldschmidt].
Goldschmidt, E. Ph. (Ernst Philip)Date: 1950