Beschreibung:
Michael Leapman has written or edited 18 books on an eclectic range of subjects, including The World for a Shilling: How the Great Exhibition of 1851 Shaped a Nation (2001), Inigo: The Troubled Life of Inigo Jones, Architect of the English Renaissance (2004), and DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Great Britain (2011).
As well as holding some of the world's most prized cultural treasures, the British Library is the repository of the nation's collective memory. In this highly illustrated book Michael Leapman tells the Library's story, highlighting the most significant and beautiful items in its care, as well as some of the lesser known.