Biographies
James Brindley
An Illustrated Life of James Brindley, 1716-1772Price: £5.99
ISBN: 978 0 85263 485 1 / Shire Library 501 / 48 pp
Born in a remote part of Britain, James Brindley received little or no education. Yet he rose to be consulted and admired by the highest in the land. His first achievements were in harnessing wind and water to grind corn, to grind flints needed in the pottery industry, and to drain mines. This book looks at his life and work.
Burne-Jones
An Illustrated Life of Sir Edward Burne-JonesPrice: £5.99
ISBN: 978 0 85263 199 7 / Shire Library 503 / 48 pp
This book gives the reader the opportunity to reassess this comparatively little-known personality and to see the range of his art.
Edward Elgar
Price: £5.99
ISBN: 978 0 74780 621 9 / Shire Library 504 / 56 pp
The son of a piano tuner who became the most famous British composer of his generation. This new illustrated biography charts his turbulent life and extraordinary achievements.
Brunel, Isambard Kingdom
Price: £5.99
ISBN: 978 0 74780 459 8 / Shire Library 502 / 48 pp
The greatest engineer of his age, Brunel accomplished works that others refused to contemplate: the Clifton suspension bridge, the Box tunnel, the first ship to built entirely of iron. Engineer of the Great Western Railway.
Gertrude Jekyll
Price: £5.99
ISBN: 978 0 85263 304 5 / Shire Library 506 / 48 pp
A major figure in the development of garden design, Gertrude Jekyll did not set out to make gardening her career. She had always loved flowers, and friendship with gardening neighbours encouraged her interest. She contributed articles to the gardening press, and these were later published in book form. This illustrated book talks about her life.
William Morris
An Illustrated Life of William Morris, 1834-1896Price: £5.99
ISBN: 978 0 74780 435 2 / Shire Library 508 / 64 pp
William Morris' many-sided career placed him at the centre of an age and culture he both condemned and shaped. This is an illustrated biography of William Morris, who is an artist, designer, poet, weaver, dyer, calligrapher, printer, businessman, journalist and novelist.
Lord Nuffield
An Illustrated Life of William Richard Morris, Viscount Nuffield, 1877-1963Price: £5.99
ISBN: 978 0 74780 203 7 / Shire Library 509 / 48 pp
William Richard Morris, Lord Nuffield, an astute businessman and mechanic, produced the first small economical car to be produced in large numbers. His special talent enabled him to contain the right parts and to assemble them, and so the first Morris Oxford car appeared in 1913.
Joseph Paxton
Price: £5.99
ISBN: 978 0 85263 208 6 / Shire Library 519 / 48 pp
John Ruskin
An Illustrated Life of John Ruskin, 1819-1900Price: £5.99
ISBN: 978 0 74780 599 1 / Shire Library 511 / 64 pp
George Stephenson
Price: £5.99
ISBN: 978 0 74780 605 9 / Shire Library 512 / 48 pp
Robert Stephenson
An Illustrated LifePrice: £5.99
ISBN: 978 0 85263 186 7 / Shire Library 513 / 48 pp
Fox Talbot
An Illustrated Life of Willian Henry Fox Talbot, 'Father of Modern Photography', 1800 -1877Price: £5.99
ISBN: 978 0 74780 351 5 / Shire Library 505 / 48 pp
A monograph on Fox Talbot, universally recognised as the father of modern photography.
Thomas Telford
An Illustrated LifePrice: £5.99
ISBN: 978 0 85263 410 3 / Shire Library 514 / 48 pp
Richard Trevithick
Price: £5.99
ISBN: 978 0 85263 177 5 / Shire Library 515 / 48 pp
Josiah Wedgwood
An Illustrated LifePrice: £5.99
ISBN: 978 0 85263 692 3 / Shire Library 516 / 48 pp