Gifts & Books: From Early Myth to the Present Publisher / Rizzoli International all of us draw

all of us draw

Storrier became a celebrity when at the age of nineteen he was awarded the Sulman Prize

solo travellers living and working on the road

and the inspiration she felt in the kitchen

New Zealand-born Australian artist George Johnson

Gifts & Books: From Early Myth to the Present Publisher / Rizzoli International all of us drawGiving and receiving gifts can be tricky. Gifts may be touching or puzzling, either strengthening bonds of friendship or becoming a burden. This volume explores how books and writing have described gift giving over the centuries, but also how books became precious gifts themselves. In a series of thought provoking essays, richly illustrated from the Bodleian Librarys collections and beyond, the contributors illuminate some of the striking ways in