Three beautiful & practical notebooks from the British Library, featuring a map of the world showing the voyages of Captain Cook. One notebook is lined, the second is blank & the third has graph paper in this stylish stationery set, the perfect gift for any occasion. ...

A high-quality, beautifully designed writing set from the British Library, featuring a map of the world showing the voyages of Captain Cook. Containing 12 notelets & matching envelopes, this is the perfect gift for those who prefer a more traditional way of keeping in touch. ...

The British Library Pocket Diary 2018 gathers together beautiful & fascinating images from the library`s collection of natural history illustrations. Sourced from manuscripts, journals & rare books, the range of nature`s beauty is represented, &

Includes:: birds, butterflies, insects, mammals, reptiles & fish. Artists include John J. Audubon, Maria Sybilla Merian, Archibold Thorburn & George Edwards.

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Part of a series of exciting & luxurious Flame Tree Notebooks. Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine art, ...

Part of a series of exciting & luxurious Flame Tree Notebooks. Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine art, ...

This is a newly revised & updated edition of this award-winning guide to the arts of China. The book explains why Chinese silks & porcelains, unsurpassed for over a thousand years, have been prized around the world for their fine textures & brilliant colours. Paradoxically, the arts valued most in China have been calligraphy, ink painting, jade carving & bronze casting. The authors explain why, describing the origins of these diverse achievements & setting them in their historical context alongside decorative arts such as lacquer, cloisonne & glass. The wealth of illustrations include well-known blue-&-white Ming ceramics as well as less familiar jades of the Neolithic period & exquisite paintings on silk from the Buddhist Silk Road caves at Dunhuang. ...

Featuring amazing objects from the British Museum, this series of captivating board books encourages children to engage with early learning concepts. Inquisitive toddlers will enjoy learning the alphabet from A to Z, with gorgeous photographic images on every page. ...

There`s a whole world to explore inside the British Museum, & with this beautiful colouring book, readers can take a tour around each civilisation & get creative at the same time! Aspiring artists can pick up their colouring pencils & bring the scenes & objects to life, whilst learning about life in different cultures. From a bustling ancient Greek marketplace to a traditional dragon parade around China`s Forbidden City, & many more spectacular scenes in between, this book is a fantastically fun way to explore different cultures. & with four pages of colour photographic stickers to have fun with too, this is the ideal book to get young readers excited about the British Museum
- & indeed the world! Nosy Crow is working with the British Museum in an exclusive partnership to create a broad range of children`s books to sell to the UK trade & beyond. The British Museum is `a museum of the world, for the world`. It is the UK`s leading visitor attraction & the second most-visited museum in the world. The books draw on the British Museum`s internationally recognised br&, its unparalleled collection of objects & its world-class expertise.
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This joke book is full of side-splittingly hilarious jokes & fascinating facts about civilisations found in the British Museum. Full of bite-size facts about amazing ancient worlds & jokes that will have you howling, Maurice the Museum Mouse`s comical collection is just as entertaining as the British Museum`s own collection. ...

In this seriously silly book, featuring famous faces from the British Museum, children can solve the puzzle by matching up the correct faces on the split pages
- & then mix them all up again to create two thousand hilarious combinations. From an ancient Egyptian mummy to a modern Mexican mask, this book is full of amazing art that provides hours of madcap mix-up fun! With a handy index & a QR code at the end, which parents can scan to learn more about the artefacts featured in the book.
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