Books for the Practical Historian

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anon, Anglo-Saxon Leechcraft:...

anon, Anglo-Saxon Leechcraft:...

.....An Historical Sketch of Early English Medicine. Lecture Memoranda of the American Medical Association meeting in Atlantic City, New Jersey,...
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Biringuccio, The Pirotechnia of Vannoccio Biringuccio: The...

Biringuccio, The Pirotechnia of Vannoccio Biringuccio: The...

...Classic Sixteenth-Century Treatise on Metals and Metallurgy. Dover Books. Reprint of the 1942 edition. ISBN 0486446433. The first comprehensive...
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Book of Knighthood and Chivalry

Book of Knighthood and Chivalry

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Byles (editor), Book of the Order of Chyualry (EETS OS 168)

Byles (editor), Book of the Order of Chyualry (EETS OS 168)

Early English Text Society, Old List # 168. Hardbound.
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Courtesy Book (EETS OS 148) (now out of print)

Courtesy Book (EETS OS 148) (now out of print)

Early English Text Society, Old Style #148
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Diehl, Bookbinding: Its Background and Technique

Diehl, Bookbinding: Its Background and Technique

Trade paperback. 748 pages. ISBN: 0486240207 Mammoth volume by one of the world's foremost practitioners. Both historical survey emphasizing...
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Gordon Kipling, ed., Receyt of the Ladie Kateryne (EETS 296)

Gordon Kipling, ed., Receyt of the Ladie Kateryne (EETS 296)

Early English Text Society #296, Original Series. Hardbound. "In October and November of 1501, the Tudor court devised a festival to celebrate the...
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Hoffman, Fishers' Craft and Lettered Art: Tracts....

Hoffman, Fishers' Craft and Lettered Art: Tracts....

... on Fishing from the End of the Middle Ages. University of Toronto Press. Paperback. "Fishers' Craft and Lettered Art provides editions, English...
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Hunter, Papermaking

Hunter, Papermaking

Trade paperback. 672 pages. ISBN: 0486236196 Definitive book by foremost authority. Over 320 illustrations. Enlarged (1947) edition.
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Jaine, Building a Woodfired Oven

Jaine, Building a Woodfired Oven

The ultimate project for the DIY cook and baker: an oven in your own back yard. Pizza cooks faster and is more tender, bread crusts as it's never...
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Jennings, Tudor and Stuart Gardens

Jennings, Tudor and Stuart Gardens

English Heritage. 2005. ISBN 9781850749363. Hardback. Tudor and Stuart Gardens explores the love of formality that characterised gardening in the...
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Landsberg, The Medieval Garden

Landsberg, The Medieval Garden

Copublished with British Museum Press. Originally published in 1996 by Thames and Hudson, reissued by the University of Toronto Press in 2003. Trade...
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Marks, The British Library Guide to Bookbinding: History...

Marks, The British Library Guide to Bookbinding: History...

...and Techniques. University of Toronto Press. 1998. Trade paperback. ISBN 9780802081766. Since the development of the codex book form in the first...
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New Orchard of Garden

New Orchard of Garden

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Northey and McKibbin, Making Sense: A Student's Guide....

Northey and McKibbin, Making Sense: A Student's Guide....

...to Research and Writing. Fifth Edition. Oxford University Press, 2007. Paperback. A "concise, readable guide to research and writing for use by...
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Page, Introduction to English Runes

Page, Introduction to English Runes

London. The Boydell Press. 2006. Runes are quite frequently mentioned in modern writings, usually imprecisely as a source of mystic knowledge, power...
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Pulver, Murder at the War: a Modern Day Mystery with a...

Pulver, Murder at the War: a Modern Day Mystery with a...

...Medieval Setting. Paperback. ISBN 0-9653575-2-X The Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) is having a lovely re-enactment of a Medieval...
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Swan, Construction and Assembly of the Portative Organ (DVD)

Swan, Construction and Assembly of the Portative Organ (DVD)

"This VCD video shows step by step how to make the organ pipes and the final assembly of the portative organ from its component pieces. It shows the...
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Swan, How to Build a Portative Organ...

Swan, How to Build a Portative Organ...

Essays upon the internal construction and instructions in sufficient detail for the building of one by a craftsman of reasonable skill. 2nd edition,...
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Swan, How to Build an Early Medieval Clock....

Swan, How to Build an Early Medieval Clock....

Essays upon the internal construction and instructions in sufficient detail for the building of one by a craftsman of reasonable skill. Published by...
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Szirmai, The Archaeology of Medieval Bookbinding

Szirmai, The Archaeology of Medieval Bookbinding

Ashgate Publishing. 1999. Hardbound. ISBN 9780859679046. In the past, studies of the history of bookbinding were mainly concerned with the exterior...
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Twyman, The British Library Guide to Printing: History...

Twyman, The British Library Guide to Printing: History...

...and Techniques. University of Toronto Press. 1999. Trade paperback. ISBN 9780802081797. In this authoritative introduction, Michael Twyman focuses...
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Woolley, Gentlewoman's Companion...

Woolley, Gentlewoman's Companion...

...or A Guide to the Female Sex (1675) Hannah Woolley, edited by Caterina Albano. Hardcover. "The Companion is a conduct- as well as cookery-book...
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Wynken de Worde, Book of Keryunge

Wynken de Worde, Book of Keryunge

(The Book of Carving), 1508. Intro and commentary by Peter Brears. London. Southover Press. 2003. The rituals of dining were complicated in great...
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