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The Oxford Museum
by Henry W. Acland and John Ruskin

A guided tour through key architectural and design philosophies underpinning the Oxford Museum of Natural History.

Henry Acland, Regius Professor of Medicine, played a key role in the building of Oxford’s new science museum in the 1850s. In this essay, he describes expectations for the building - its construction was nearing completion as he wrote. He also discusses its famous connection to the “Gothic style”. While guiding readers through some of the building’s chief features, Acland leaves no doubt this was a project meant to combine nature and God; reverence and rigour. It’s a vision of science that’s largely forgotten today.

Acland appends two 1858/9 letters from John Ruskin. In this correspondence, the great advocate of Gothic design elaborates some of the core principles of this approach and relates them to Oxford’s museum. This is a superb summary of Gothic Revivalism. Acland also adds 1859 correspondence from John Phillips, describing plans to integrate geological materials into the building’s decorative features.

Facsimile of 1859 edition
June 2008 | ISBN: 978-1-906267-08-7 (pbk)
4.25" x 6.88"
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e-book USD$25.00 (approx GBP£18.00)
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Crystal Palace glasshouse

Crystal Palace guides

After the Great Exhibition in 1851, the Crystal Palace was moved to Sydenham. It was expanded, set in a 200 acre pleasure park, and opened again in 1854. Visitors could purchase a series of guides – official handbooks – offering descriptions and background information about the displays.

These guides added to the Park's mixture of education and entertainment, a mixture crucial for middle class recreation in mid-Victorian Britain. More than a dozen different guides were produced. This facsimile series reprints these guides.

Guide series (more information about the series)

Bryan 1925

The Last Message
of William Jennings Bryan

As the Scopes ‘Monkey’ Trial came to an end in July 1925, William Jennings Bryan expected to deliver the prosecution’s closing argument. Procedural tactics by the defence prevented this. The trial ended without the long-awaited climatic moment in front of the world’s media.

Five days later, unexpectedly, Bryan died. In their bereavement, supporters focused on Bryan’s unspoken words as their last chance to connect with the Great Commoner. A local newspaper editor gave Bryan’s text a quick polish, then saw to its speedy publication.
This volume reprints that 1925 material in its entirety, together with a brief historical introduction.

Cain, Joe (ed.). 2009. William Jennings Bryan’s Last Message: a reprint of his famous closing arguments for the 1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, undelivered and posthumously published.
Reprint of 1925 material.

February 2009
6"x9"
ISBN: 978-1-906267-16-2 (paperback)
GBP£7.99 (purchase)
ISBN: 978-1-906267-17-9 (hardback)
GBP£24.99 (purchase)

Headquarters Nights
by Vernon Kellogg

In 1915, Kellogg was a pacifist and humanitarian working with relief organisations in war-torn Europe. By 1917, he wanted war with Germany, pursued to total victory. Headquarters Nights is the story of his conversion.

"And always we talked, and tried to understand one another; to get the other man's point of view, his Weltanshauung."

The Prussians told Kellogg how Darwinism justified war, how nations competed in the struggle for existence, and how war - the ultimate survival of the fittest - was the only means for ensuring civilisation’s progress.

Kellogg was shocked. An evolutionary biologist and expert on Darwinism, he knew this reading of Darwin was a corruption. It perverted Darwinism into a doctrine of ‘might makes right’. After many long nights arguing with his Prussian hosts, Kellogg concluded there was no reasoning with them. This perversion had too strong a foothold. It created an evil militarism. The expansion of their views had to be resisted with all available force.

Headquarters Nights follows Kellogg’s conversion. This was no easy journey. Kellogg’s struggles offer an intimate study of one man’s transformation from an opponent of all wars into an advocate of one. His conversion will offer insight for modern thinkers about world events today.

Facsimile of 1917 edition
January 2009 | ISBN: 978-1-906267-12-4 (pbk)
4.25" x 6.88"
paperback GBP£5.99
e-book GBP£29.99
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Eoornis specimen (rare)

Eoörnis pterovelox gobiensis
by Augustus C. Fortheringham

Meet Eoörnis, the woofen-poof. As the author explains, ‘Through countless ages and successive civilizations this remarkable bird has been the symbol of speed, stamina, grace of line, proportion of members, and beauty of motion.’ Here are the origins of the phrase, ‘graceful as a bird.’

A classic ‘burlesque’ in the history of science. Not a hoax. Not a mistake. It’s a raucous, now legendary, adventure through the zoology and natural history of a most unusual creature.

Written in the 1920s by Augustus C. Fotheringham, a pseudonym for Lester Sharp and Cuthbert Bancroft Fraser, this monograph has circulated far and wide. For years, it has moved quietly through scientist circles, handed down with a wink and a nod. If nothing else, Eoörnis shows the passion and dedication scientists have for their subject.

Profits from the sale of this facsimile will be donated to support natural history museums.

Facsimile of 1928 edition
June 2007 | ISBN: 978-1-9062-6705-6 (pbk)
paperback USD$7.50 (approx GBP£4.00)
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The Nature of Gothic
A Chapter from The Stones of Venice
Preface by William Morris
by John Ruskin

Ruskin’s famous essay The Nature of Gothic first appeared as a chapter in his 1853 The Stones of Venice. It proved highly popular and took on a life of its own. Ruskin inspired Morris. This essay added fuel to another phase of the Gothic Revival in Britain.

This facsimile reproduces Ruskin’s essay together with a preface by Arts and Crafts designer William Morris, added to a reprint first published in 1889. Complete edition.

Facsimile
June 2008 | ISBN: 978-1-906267-07-0 (pbk)
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