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		Temples of Convenience
		and Chambers of Delight		Art
		Lucinda Lambton
		Tempus 2007  168 pages
		Paperback  Illustrated  075243893X  236x247mm		Qty
		Published Price £17.99		Our Price £5.99
	Lucinda Lambton has travelled the country to compile this photographic collection of some of the finest sanitary ware in existence. Baths and washbasins - some of epic proportions - are included but, as the title suggests, pride of place goes to the contents of the 'smallest room'. These range from 15th century garderobes and delicately discreet porcelain chamberpots, to handsome marble and jade urinals, 'wash-out' closets (some by Royal Appointment) and the highly sociable six-seater lavatory at Chilthorne Dormer Manor.

		Britain Yesterday and Today
				Art
		Janice Anderson; Edmund Swinglehurst
		Carlton 2003  256 pages
		Hardback  Illustrated  1842229494  277x215mm		Qty
		Published Price £20.00		Our Price £8.99
	Office workers of the 1920s with pens and ink instead of the computer screens of today; opera, the preserve of the elite in 1955, shown on giant screens outside Covent Garden; women campaigning for the vote in 1909 and manning a polling station in 1999 - in an engrossing series of juxtapositions, this book sets photographs of British life in the first half of the 20th century alongside their present-day equivalents, throwing changes in sport, leisure, work, industry, life in the city and the countryside into sharp relief.

		St Paul's
		The Cathedral Church of London, 604-2004		Art
		Derek Keene; Arthur Burns; Andrew Saint (Edited by)
		Yale University Press 2004  538 pages
		Hardback  Illustrated  0300092768  324x250mm		Qty
		Published Price £65.00		Our Price £35.00
	St Paul's is one of the two great churches in the capital that stand for the historical presence of Christianity in England and for the links between church and state. Those themes are among the many aspects of the cathedra's life explored in this magnificent volume of 42 illustrated essays. Specialists write on topics including architecture, liturgy, music and the library, while historical studies cover the 1,400 years separating the foundation of Bishop Mellitus' church of St Paul in 604 and the rebuilding of Paternoster Square in 2003.

		Sarah Stone
		Natural Curiosities from the New Worlds		Art
		Christine E Jackson
		Merrell 1998  159 pages
		Hardback  Illustrated  185894063X  290x225mm		Qty
		Published Price £29.95		Our Price £12.99
	From about 1777, Sarah Stone (ca 1760-1844) was employed by the entrepreneur Sir Ashton Lever to record the contents of his private museum - specimens being brought back by British expeditions (including Cook's voyages) to Australia, the Americas, Africa and the Far East in the 1780s and 1790s. Her meticulous watercolours of flora and fauna are now in the Natural History Museum, London. This volume presents reproductions of 59 examples, along with essays on Sarah Stone, Lever and his museum, and other artists represented there.

		Fairford Parish Church
		A Medieval Church and its Stained Glass		Art
		Sarah Brown; Lindsay Macdonald (Edited by)
		Sutton 2007  175 pages
		Paperback  Illustrated  075094692X  260x193mm		Qty Sold Out
		Published Price £19.99		Our Price £7.99
	St Mary's Church in Fairford, Gloucestershire, is home to one of Europe's finest surviving sets of medieval stained glass windows: installed in the early 16th century, they depict scenes ranging from the Creation to the Last Judgement. Painstaking conservation work has recently revealed again their remarkable detail and craftsmanship, and this book discusses both the windows' design and the story of their survival and repair. The text is complemented with photographs of all 28 windows and the church's other architectural features.

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