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Thornton's Bookshop  ( W A & J S Meeuws )  ( Ass. member of the ABA ) Established in Oxford in 1835  E-Mail

The Old Barn - Walnut Court Faringdon, SN7 7JH Faringdon is a small market town near the  Cotswolds, about 20 miles from Oxford Check our stock  on Antiqbook.com Short-title Index 188 years of bookselling experience Advice on and valuations of antiquarian books available , if just one or 2 books at no charge Payments only via PayPal or by bank  transfer in Sterling or Euro The Mosaic is still located in the entrance of the present tourist shop Background of this page is the  old wallpaper removed in 2003

Tommy Joy, 1904 – 2003 . Bookseller,  talks about his  indentured apprentice at  Thornton’s Bookshop,  Oxford, 1920

 

1966 - my first stock	Badge received from the ABA. ( In fact it's 62 years ago, in 1961,  when  I started in this profession)	the Broad street shop till 2002
		Member of the ABA  1907 - 2011

 
 

History of 11-12  Broad street Thornton's in Wikipedia Filming of Inspector Morse History of the bookshop Famous visitors

Rayner Unwin :  The making of The lord of the Rings. New edition 2018, 8 pages in stapled wrappers. 100 numbered copies all sold DETAILS HERE   Tolkien / Inklings	Sitzungsberichte der preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften -  Physikalisch-mathematische Klasse  for the years 1922 – 1938 ( Proceedings of the Prussian Academy of sciences –  physics and mathematics section )  The set contained 26 Einstein first editions alone  AUCTIONED and sold at Dominc Winter's science sale in  2019	Frishman, Marcel, Drawings Oxford,  Bruno Cassirer, 1957, twenty-five tipped-in black and white plates., folio, number 62 of a limited edition of  500 copies. In a wonderful  contemporary full red crushed full morocco binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe and described as a special copy on the last page In a matching slip case, also quarter bound  (spine and edges) in red morocco . £ 165 order here
Unique collection of theses dating from the 16th to the 20th century.  So far 376 titles have been described here, approximately 150 more are still to be listed. Subjects: Classical antiquity, theology, history, zoology, botany, physics, chemistry. The majority are in the medical field. sold at  Dominc Winter's  science sale 2019
	Check our stock on Antiqbook.com Subscribe here to the Wednesday or send them your articles, poetry or artworks	History of 11-12 Broad street Thornton's in Wikipedia Filming of Inspector Morse Russian view of Morse
the Whittington Press A collection of books,  posters and catalopgues	LEHMANN, John, (ed.) The London Magazine .A Monthly Review of Literature.  12 early issues 1954 - 1956,  including the first 3 . Eliot, Jennings, Macneice,  Pound, Fuller, Wain, Gunn, Auden and many other  contributors £ 18.50	Al'bom Elizavety Nikolaevny Ushakovoi. Faksimil'noe vos proizvedenie.
Titles signed by the authors and/or illustrators and association copies PRINTS and other works of ART Ackermann's A history of the university of Oxford etc..		MILNE, A.A. When We Were Very Young; Winnie-the-Pooh;  Now We Are Six;  The House at Pooh Corner London, Methuen & Co.,, 1924-1928. 4 volumes, sm-octavo. Bound int full morocco, slip case £ 950

acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum in the year 1888

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus;  Le vite de' dodici Cesari  Venice 1738 FULL DESCRIPTION  AND IMAGES HERE	Douglas, Lord Alfred (ed.) The Spirit Lamp: II , 13 May 1892; III. 20 May 1892; IV,  27 May 1892; V, 3 June 1892; VI, 10 June 1892; Volume 2, I, 21 October 1892; Volume 3, II, 17 February 1893; Volume IV, I, May 1893; Volume IV, II, May 1893 . 9 ISSUES INCLUDING THE THE LAST 2, THE RAREST £1500 ALSO: Douglas, Lord Alfred (ed.) The Spirit Lamp: an Oxford  Magazine without News No. III,  Friday, May 20, 1892 AND  No. IV, Friday, May 27, 1892,  £195 we also have the issue of 20 May 1892  and  IV of 27 May 1892	Kalashnikov, Anatolii( Ivanovich, ( 1930-2007 ) Voi'na I Mir : War and Peace : A Suite of Wood Engravings Based on the Book By Leo Tolstoy.one of 300 copies printed by the Libanus press £ 85
Shakespeare, William - Sonnets  in Chinese	check our stock via Antiqbook.com Rare & Antiquarian titles	Francis James Ronald Bottrall ( 1906  / 1989) ,  Cornish poet. A collection of 41 (43 of which 2 duplicates) poetry magazines of which most include Bottrall’s poems / articles ( one by his wife Margaret) from the poet’s library. And 10 titles dedicated to him by Italian, Spanish, Brasilian  and Swedish poets £ 75 order via antiqbook
Iris Murdoch	History of  the bookshop Famous visitors	Umberto Eco
Die Bamberger Apokalypse. Neunundfünfzig Farbtafeln. Die Miniaturen der Apokalypse und des Evangelistars in der Staatlichen Bibliothek Bamberg. Bibl. 140 (A II 42). Frankfurt a.M.,  Insel Verlag, 1958, Folio.59 mounted  facsimiles in full colours., 41, [1]pp.,  45 cm. , orig. half leather binding in  slipcase, Imperial folio. £ 125	OXFORD BIBLIOPHILE ALMANAC,  a unique and fascinating volume with something for every booklover. Contributions by Richard Adams, Roald Dahl, Elizabeth Jennings, Gillian Avery, Sir Basil Blackwell, Brian Aldiss, B.E. Juel-Jensen, Helen Gardner and others £ 950 Full details here	Search our stock
	Thornton's Bookshop Scharlie & Wim Meeuws  The Old Barn, Walnut Court,  Faringdon SN7 7JH,  United Kingdom E-Mail

Nicolis, F.Bell Beakers Today: Pottery, People, Culture, Symbols in Prehistoric Europe. 2001, 2 volumes, 736pp., black and white illustrations, Hardbacks in slip case  £ 59.50 order here ORDER HERE These two volumes present over sixty contributions, from and international colloquium held in Trento, Italy, in 1998, which provide an invaluable overview of the Bell Beaker culture and recent developments in scholarship. The papers cover sites and discoveries in Spain and Portugal, Italy and Sicily, France, the Netherlands, Britain and Ireland, eastern and central Europe, as well as more thematic discussions of, for example, radiocarbon dating, metallurgy, society and culture, European contacts, technology, tools, gender and burial rituals. The majority of the papers are in English, although most European languages are represented along with English abstracts.   One of the most puzzling archaeological phenomena of prehistoric Europe is the widespread appearance of a specific form of ceramic vessel, a decorated, thin-walled, handleless drinking cup known as a bell beaker, throughout western and central continental Europe and the British Isles during the second half of the third millennium B.C. The bell beakers were often found in male burials that also included archer's wrist guards of polished stone, V-perforated buttons (with two holes drilled from one side at an angle until they converged to form a single V-shaped channel), and copper daggers. Archaeologists refer to this phenomenon as the "Bell Beaker complex" or, more efficiently, simply as "Bell Beakers."   The earliest form of Bell Beaker called the Maritime Bell Beaker probably originated in the vibrant copper-using communities of the Tagus estuary in Portugal around 2800 - 2700 BC and spread from there to many parts of western Europe. An overview of all available sources from southern Germany concluded that the Bell Beaker Culture was a new and independent culture in that area, contemporary with the Corded Ware Culture.This conclusion was supported by a review of radiocarbon dates for Bell Beaker across Europe, which showed that the earliest dates for Bell Beaker were 2900 BC in Iberia. This makes the style contemporary with Corded Ware, but beginning in a different region of Europe. Bell Beaker has been suggested as a candidate for an early Indo-European culture, more specifically, an ancestral proto-Celtic. Despite the date this work came out in 2006.     10