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New items are
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on this site approximately once a month, after the new stock lists have
been sent out to mailing list
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search facilities - they both work differently, so if one isn't helpful
try the other.
Google you already know and love: bear in mind that its results page
will take you away from this site, so if you want to carry on searching
medievalbookshop you'll need to make sure you click the
"medievalbookshop" button under the search field on the results page.
The Fluid Dynamics search only indexes this site, but it's a bit more
rough and ready: use quote marks for exact matches - for example,
typing
in geoffrey chaucer will look for every occurrence of the words
geoffrey
OR chaucer; typing "geoffrey chaucer" will look for
occurences
of
those two words together. Searching on two or three words is usually
better: for example, typing
in just chaucer will probably return most of the pages in the
attic, so add one or two words to narrow down what kind of thing you're
looking for.
Each result will include a line of text to give you some idea if it's
what
you want - these samples are lower case and lack any
non-alphanumeric
characters (e.g., punctuation or currency symbols) or accents, which
doesn't
take too much getting used to and allows a more thorough search of the
database. Clicking on any of the results will take you to the relevant
page, but not to the exact spot, so if the page is a long one you may
need
to use your browser's find command once you get there. You should also
note that if a page contains more than one occurrence of "geoffrey
chaucer",
your search results will only list the first one. Don't know any
way
round this: sorry.
The search
index is currently
updated with new stock approximately every three or four weeks.
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Books listed
on this site
are mainly stored in the attic. This
is
organised
much like most bibliographies, with the books divided into primary
sources
(medieval texts) and secondary sources (texts about medieval texts),
and
then listed alphabetically by author.
For primary
sources,
books are listed alphabetically by author or artist if one is known,
though
the method isn't consistent (for example, anything in stock by Dante
Alighieri
is under D, Matthew Paris or Peter of Blois under P,
John
of Salisbury under S, and so on). You may need to try several
different
variations, as many medieval authors go under variant names and
spellings:
they are usually listed under the letter and name that I think most
people
might use to look for them. Try a few and you should soon get the idea.
Anonymous works and anthologies are listed on separate pages, and
there's
another page for facsimiles and art works (but artists are listed
alphabetically
along with other authors if their names are known).
Secondary
sources
are listed alphabetically by author or editor. Works without a named
author
are listed on a separate page: there are two further "anonymous" pages,
for exibition guides, and for auction catalogues. There is also a
separate
page for reference works, and another page leading to journals and
other
serials or partworks. You may need to try several different variations
- and where there are multiple authors or editors, you might need to
try
them all - they are catalogued on this site under the first name listed
on the title page of the book, though this isn't always the way they
are
cited in bibliographies and elsewhere. Some books are now listed
separately under each of the authors'/editors' names, but this isn't
consistent.
All attic
pages now have a set of scroll bars for navigating - one for primary
sources, one for
secondary
sources, one for reference books, one for medievalism, and one for the
other stuff. The
scroll
bars need you to have javascript switched on in your browser, otherwise
either they won't work or you simply won't see them (if you can't see
them
before the next paragraph, you need to go to your browser's preferences
and switch javascript on). If these scrolls don't work, a set of links
is hard-coded at the bottom of every attic page, and if you get lost
you
can also use the attic's main page
for
navigating.
Use these scrollbars to navigate the attic...
You need javascript
switched on for these scrollbars to work. If they don't, there's a full
set of links at the bottom of this page.
There are some
other
books pages you can explore. If you go to the used
books main page, you can link to the current general
list: this is a list containing mixed new
stock which is sent out regularly to subscribers.
You will also see occasional links that allow you to browse by subject or browse
by publisher.
Please note that these facilities are very much under construction and
don't list everything on the site.
An unusual
feature of
this site is the incomplete sets
page - an
ideal
place to seek out odd volumes when you already have part of a set.
Finally,
there is a page
of unused
bargains. This contains
mainly
remainders
and overstocks, and such stuff, and is a great way to pick up
good-as-new
books for well under publishers' prices.
Enquiries
and wants lists
If you can't
find what you
want on this site, or don't have time to look, you're welcome to email
an enquiry, using the link at the top of this page. Don't forget, there's new
stock arriving all the time and there are always other
books in stock that haven't been catalogued yet - if I don't have what
you want, I'll be happy to keep a wants
list
for you.
Other
dealers
There are
plenty of book
dealers who specialise in medieval and related material. If you can't
find
what you want on this site, there are contact details for some of them
listed on the other
dealers page.
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& heraldry | guides & gazetteers | lexical: concordances, dictionaries, glossaries | maps & atlases | medievalism | name & place-name studies | pass notes & study guides | numismatics
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