Traces the history and evolution of the gramophone, the intricacies of recording sound on discs or cylinders and the complex early development of the record industry. This book is suitable for music enthusiasts.

Traces the evolution of oil lighting and places on record details of the many fine lamps which served our forebears so well.

Illustrates the simple, rare, but often extremely beautiful traditional laundry aids - the glass calendars, washing bats, mangle boards and goffering stacks. This book also provides examples of the multitude of flat, box, solid fuel, spirit, gas and electric irons, washing machines and wringers.

Perfume has been used in religious ceremony and also in medicine, for it was believed to have the power to ward off illness. Elaborately chased silver pomanders were carried during times of plague. This book traces the history of the scent bottle from the alabaster containers of ancient Egypt to mass-produced commercial bottles.

Discover the objects that fired the imagination of the world's collectors, what they were prepared to pay for them - and why they wanted them in the first place!

Little bigger than a fingernail, Celtic Coins are one of the richest sources of Celtic art in the world. In this extraordinary pocket volume, incredibly the first of its kind, Celtic coin artist and researcher Simon Lilly unveils the amazing lost world of early European art hidden in museums and private collections across the planet.

The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet: Here are photographs of Murakami's extensive and personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side of the writer rarely seen by the public.