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Strachey, Lytton. Portraits in Miniature and Other Essays. Chatto & Windus 1931,, 1931.
Price: US$5.13 + shipping
Description: 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 218pp, owner's inscriptions and blindstamp on endpaper, edges browning, text clean and sound, grey cloth, gilt titles, a scuffed patch on front board front edge, Good condition / no dustwrapper
Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom
Lytton Strachey. PORTRAITS IN MINIATURE and Other Essays. Chatto and Windus, 1931.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: APPEARS VERY LITTLE READ. NO FOXING. Minimal wear to large hard back book. Pages are very clean,bright and tight. Name in f.e.p. top corner.
Seller: September Books, CHURCH STRETTON, United Kingdom
Lytton Strachey. Portraits in Miniature and other essays. Chatto and Windus, 1931.
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Condition: Good
Description: 1931. Chatto and Windus. Hardcover . ACCEPTABLE Gilt titles, green cloth boards. Sunned. Marked. 8x6
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Strachey, Lytton.. PORTRAITS IN MINIATURE AND OTHER ESSAYS.. Chatto and Windus, 1931., 1931.
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Description: 8vo. Prelims. + [218pp.] F.e.ps. slightly browned. Original gilt lettered grey cloth discoloured to spine and edges. US$10
Seller: Hay Cinema Bookshop Limited, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
Strachey, Lytton:. Portraits in Miniature and Other Essays.. London: Chatto & Windus, 1931., 1931.
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Description: First edition. 218 pp. Previous owner's inscription on fep. Top edge green. Front and bottom edges uncut. Blue/green cloth boards. Gilt lettering on spine. A little light staining on front board. A little light foxing on edges. Overall condition VG. No dust wrapper.
Seller: Owl Books, County Leitrim, Ireland
Lytton Strachey. Portraits In Miniature And Other Essays. Chatto & Windus, 1931.
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Condition: Good
Description: 1931. No Edition Remarks. 218 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Rough-cut pages. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Lytton Strachey. Portraits In Miniature And Other Essays. Chatto & Windus, 1931.
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Condition: Good
Description: Date on the title page, 1931. No date on the copyright page. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail with tracking worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.
Seller: M Godding Books Ltd, Devizes, WILTS, United Kingdom
Lytton Strachey. Portraits In Miniature And Other Essays. Chatto & Windus, 1931.
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Condition: Good
Description: 1931. No edition remarks. 218 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$15.75 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1933 edition - No dust jacket - Pages are tanned. Pages have no notes or highlighting. The cover and spine have some wear.
Seller: Re-Read Ltd, Doncaster, United Kingdom
Strachey, Lytton. Portraits in Miniature and Other Essays. Chatto & Windus, 1931.
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Description: London. 1931. Chatto & Windus. 1st British Edition. Previous Owners Name Penned in Front, Otherwise Very Good. No Dustjacket. 218 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature England Essays. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Eighteen portraits - Contents: Sir John Harington. Muggleton. John Aubrey. The Life, Illness and Death of Mr. North Congreve, Collier, Macaulay and Mr. Summers. Madame de Sevigne's Cousin. The Sad Story of Dr. Colbatch. The President de Brosses. James Boswell. The Abbe Morellet. Mary Berry. Madame de Lieven. Six English Historians: Hume. Gibbon. Macaulay. Carlyle. Froude. Creighton. inventory #43221 Previous Owners Name Penned in Front, Otherwise Very Good. No Dustjacket
Seller: zenosbooks, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
STRACHEY Lytton.. Portraits in Miniature and other essays.. , 1931.
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Description: London: Chatto & Windus 1931. 8vo. Orig. cloth binding slightly shelf soiled. Gilt. VIII218pp.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
STRACHEY Lytton.. Portraits in Miniature and other essays.. , 1931.
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Description: London: Chatto & Windus 1931. 8vo. Orig. cloth binding. Gilt. In torn dustjacket. VIII218pp. 1st edition.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Lytton Strachey. Portraits In Miniature. Chatto and Windus, 1931.
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Condition: Good
Description: Light wear to boards. Content has toning to page ends. DJ with some edge wear, tears and sun fading.
Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom
Strachey, Giles Lytton). Portraits in Miniature and Other Essays. Chatto & Windus, London, 1931.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, First Printing; grey-green c w/gilt titles; owner's name in penccil; 217 clean, unmarked pages Size: 8 Vo
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Strachey, Giles Lytton). Portraits in Miniature and Other Essays. Chatto & Windus, London, 1931.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, First Printing; grey-green c w/gilt titles; 217 clean, unmarked pages Size: 8 Vo
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Strachey, Giles Lytton). Portraits in Miniature and Other Essays. Chatto & Windus, London, 1931.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, First Printing; grey-green c w/gilt titles; owner's name; 217 clean, unmarked pages Size: 8 Vo
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Strachey, Lytton:. Portraits in Miniature and Other Essays.. London: Chatto & Windus, 1931., 1931.
Price: US$20.88 + shipping
Description: First edition. 218 pp. Sections on John Harrington, John Aubrey, Abbe Morellet, James Boswell and the English historians Hume, Gibbon, Macaulay, Carlyle, Froude & Bishop Creighton. Some foxing on prelims. Blue/green cloth boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Boards damp stained. Overall condition VG-. Dust wrapper Good but split at top of spine.
Seller: Owl Books, County Leitrim, Ireland
Lytton Strachey. Portraits in Miniature and other essays. Chatto and Windus, 1931.
Price: US$22.76 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1931. Chatto and Windus. Hardcover. GOOD Gilt titles, green boards. Spine sunned. 7x5
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Strachey Lytton. Portraits in Miniature. Chatto and Windus 1931 (1st UK), 1931.
Price: US$23.09 + shipping
Description: In the scarced d/w. Biographical essays of James Boswell, Sir John Harington, David Hume, Edward Gibbon, Thomas Carlyle, and others. Neat bookplate on front pastedown, hidden by d/w flap.
Seller: CHRIS MARTIN MODERN FIRST EDITIONS, Pleasley, United Kingdom
Lytton Strachey. PORTRAITS IN MINIATURE AND OTHER ESSAYS. Chatto & Windus, London, 1931.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: First impression of the first edition. ***Very good in grey-green buckram boards with gilt titles to the spine. Top edge of text-block stained grey-green by the publisher. Bottom edge of text-block pages rough-cut (as called for). Spine and top edge of boards slightly faded. Interior pages clean and bright, with just a few very light fox marks to prelims. Owner's contemporary name and date in sepia ink to top of front free endpaper. Spine tight. No dustwrapper. ***218 pages. 204 mm x 134 mm. ***Biographical Sketch: Giles Lytton Strachey was born in 1880, the eleventh of thirteen children, to General Sir Richard Strachey and his wife Jane Grant. His mother enjoyed strong interests in literature and politics and Strachey met many of the leading writers and thinkers of the day when they came to visit Lady Strachey. It was at University College that he met and was influenced by Walter Raleigh, a professor of English literature and well known biographer. ***After failing to receive a scholarship to Oxford in 1899, Strachey decided to attend Cambridge where he developed many friendships which lasted the rest of his life. At Cambridge he met Clive Bell, Thoby Stephen, and Leonard Woolf, with whom he started the Midnight Society and the X Society. Along with many other future "Bloomsberries" he was elected to the Apostles. ***Strachey completed his work at Cambridge with a thesis on Warren Hastings but failed to receive a Trinity fellowship. He returned to his parents' home in Lancaster Gate and sought to support himself as a journalist. Much of his social life centered on the Bloomsbury group which focused on the Thursday night "at-homes" of the Stephenses (Thoby, Adrian, Vanessa [Bell], and Virginia [Woolf]). Over the next several years Strachey travelled, visited friends and wrote his first book, 'Landmarks in French Literature' (1912) which was commissioned by H.A.L. Fisher. In 1910 Strachey made the acquaintance of Ottoline Morrell with whom he carried on a playful and extended correspondence over the years. Through Morrell he met Henry Lamb and Henry Norton, who loaned him £100 to rent a cottage so he could begin his next major work, 'Eminent Victorians' (1918). In 1915 Strachey met Dora Carrington, a graduate of the Slade School of Art and the woman who would shortly devote herself to him for the rest of his life. ***In 1917 Strachey and Carrington moved into a cottage in Tidemarsh, Oxfordshire, and continued to carry on with their personal lives. Carrington maintained a relationship with fellow artist Mark Gertler before marrying Ralph Partridge in 1921, and Strachey moved through a series of relationships as well. Strachey's time at Tidemarsh cottage was also spent productively writing. He followed 'Eminent Victorians' with 'Queen Victoria' (1921) and produced a collection of essays, 'Books and Characters' as well. His style was becoming very popular and he began to achieve a measure of fame which allowed him to support himself and his household from the proceeds of his writing. In 1924 Strachey purchased the lease to Ham Spray House and he, along with Carrington and Partridge, moved in. He completed 'Elizabeth and Essex' in 1928 and started 'The Greville Memoirs', which were completed posthumously by Ralph and Frances Partridge and Roger Fulford. ***Though his frequent ill-health often made it difficult, Strachey enjoyed travelling and made several trips abroad between 1928 and 1931. Late in 1931 he began to decline rapidly from an illness which doctors were unable to identify. He died January 21, 1932, of what was later found to be stomach cancer. Carrington committed suicide a few weeks later, unable to live without him. ***A Lytton Strachey first edition in nice condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Strachey, Lytton. Portraits In Minature / And Other Essays. Chatto & Windus; London; nc/1931, 1931.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: ; 218 pp.; ; F-; Lacks the issued jacket. . . [kwA_ 1st Ed. ]
Seller: Watermark West Rare Books, Wichita, KS, U.S.A.
strachey, Lytton. Portraits in miniature and other essays. Chatto & Windus, 1931.
Price: US$26.04 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: inglese Condizioni dell'esterno: Discrete con difetti, manca sovraccoperta macchie Condizioni dell'interno: Discrete con Difetti, macchie bruniture
Seller: Miliardi di Parole, Pietra Marazzi, AL, Italy
Price: US$30.78 + shipping
Description: 8vo., First Edition, free endpapers lightly browned; original green buckram, gilt back, green top, uncut, a very good, clean copy. With personal bookplate on front paste-down.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
STRACHEY LYTTON. PORTRAITS IN MINIATURE, AND OTHER ESSAYS. Chatto & Windus, 1931.
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Condition: Near Fine
Description: RO40171036: 1931. In-8. Relié. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 217 pages. Tranche de tête grise. Etiquette de code sur le dos (jaquette). Tampons et annotation de bibliothèque en page de titre. Jaquette légèrement déchirée. Avec Jaquette. . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
Seller: Le-Livre, SABLONS, France
Strachey, Lytton. Portraits in Miniature.. Chatto and Windus, London, 1931.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: DJ spine somewhat darkened. ; 5-1/4" x 8-1/8"; 218 pages
Seller: Acme Book Company, Fayetteville, NY, U.S.A.
STRACHEY, LYTTON. Portraits in Miniature: Essays. Chatto & Windus, London, 1931.
Price: US$37.39 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Outer page edges a little foxed; slight fade to the head and heel of the spine. Dustjacket has a browned spine panel with a stain to the tail; some browning to the upper and fore edges of front and rear panels. Some wear to the outer extremities with a little paper loss to the outer corners and somet chipping to the head and heel of the spine panel.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
STRACHEY, Lytton. PORTRAITS IN MINIATURE AND OTHER ESSAYS. Chatto & Windus, London, 1931.
Price: US$47.00 + shipping
Description: Gilt cloth. Cloth faintly sunned through jacket, otherwise a very good or better copy, with the bookplate of collector/bibliographer Richard Purdy affixed to front pastedown, in slightly tanned and nicked typographic dust jacket. First edition. Giles Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) English writer, critic, and founding member of the Bloomsbury Group was also the author of EMINENT VICTORIANS, in which he established a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and his special brand of wit. His biography QUEEN VICTORIA (1921) was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Strachey died on 21 January 1932, aged 51. It is reported that his final words were: "If this is dying, then I don't think much of it." -- [Unknown].
Seller: Second Wind Books, LLC, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$49.45 + shipping
Description: Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 217 pages; Review copy. Description: 217 p. ; 20 cm. Subjects: Biography --Historians --Great Britain. 2 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Strachey, Lytton. Portraits in Miniature. Chatto & Windus, London, 1931.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good/very good. Brodart included.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$51.31 + shipping
Description: [Literary Biography] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.[8] 218 [2]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the plain typographic dust-jacket, titled in red. Toning and spotting to edges, with some toning also to spine and board edges. Price-clipped jacket heavily toned to spine, with chipping to edges and a blue ink note to front flap. Very good. Literary essays on subjects between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
STRACHEY, Lytton.. Portraits in Miniature and Other Essays.. Chatto & Windus, London, 1931.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: 218 [1] pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Bookplate on pastedown; two pages slightly tanned from laid-in clipping; very slight sunning to cloth; tight and sound in a jacket with a tanned spine and slight use at edges.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$64.00 + shipping
Description: Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 217 pages; Review copy. Description: 217 p. ; 20 cm. Subjects: Biography --Historians --Great Britain. 2 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
STRACHEY, Lytton. PORTRAITS IN MINIATURE and Other Essays. Chatto & Windus, London, 1931.
Price: US$64.13 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, octavo, grey cloth, very good condition in good chipped and sunned dust wrapper in protective cover, fint foxing to first few leaves, otherwise clean and bright, binding firm, viii plus 218 pages. [QP]
Seller: Portman Rare Books, Tonbridge, United Kingdom
Lytton STRACHEY. Portraits in miniature. Chatto and Windus, London, 1931.
Price: US$64.84 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Octavo; first edition; DJ good with light wear at edges and sunned spine; publisher's cloth binding excellent; inside as new; 218 pages;
Seller: Magnus, Paris, France
Strachey, Lytton. Portraits in Miniature and Other Essays. Chatto & Windus, London, 1931.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 218pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Strachey's collection of biographies including those of Macaulay, Carlyle, Froude, Gibbon and Hume. Original grey cloth, in about fine dust jacket browned, Book fine
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Strachey, Lytton. PORTRAITS IN MINIATURE. Chatto & Windus, 1931.
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Description: PORTRAITS IN MINIATURE, Chatto & Windus, 1931, lst ed., near fine in like dust-wrapper Very nice.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Strachey (Lytton). Portraits in Miniature and other Essays.. Chatto & Windus, 1931.
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Description: FIRST EDITION, some light spotting, pp. [viii], 218, crown 8vo, original blue-grey cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt and a little faded with slight lean to spine, top edge grey, and slightly dusty, other edges faintly spotted with tail edge roughtrimmed, good. The copy of artist Barbara Bagenal (née Hiles), a friend of Carrington from the Slade (and thereby later with Strachey), who assisted the Woolfs with their early printing and had relationships with Clive Bell, Saxon Sydney Turner, David Garnett and John Maynard Keynes. Her ownership inscription records the later purchase of this copy at a bookshop in Rye.
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$94.92 + shipping
Description: 8vo., First Edition; original green buckram, gilt back, green top, uncut, a near fine copy in unclipped, very lightly age-soiled dustwrapper. VERY SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Strachey, Lytton.. Portraits in Miniature and Other Essays.. Chatto and Windus, London, 1931.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A Fine copy in dull greenish grey buckram, in a Near Fine pale grey dustwrapper printed in red and black, not price-clipped, very slightly toned along spine panel. 218pp. Bloomsbury critic and biographer. Published in the year before his death. Q05548
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Strachey, Lytton. Portraits in Minature and other Essays. London: Chatto & Windus, 1931, 1931.
Price: US$153.92 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed Limited Edition. No. 207/260. 22.75x15.75cm. x. 218pp. TEG. Partially sunned front board, hinges and some gutters cracked but remains fairly firm, owner inscription to front endpaper, else clean and tidy. Size: 8vo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Strachey, Lytton. Portraits in Miniature. Chatto & Windus, 1931.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Deluxe edition limited to 260 numbered and signed copies.
Seller: James Cummings, Bookseller, Signal Mountain, TN, U.S.A.
Strachey, Lytton.. PORTRAITS IN MINIATURE: And Other Essays.. Chatto & Windus, 1931.
Price: US$226.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed limited #90 of 260 signed by the author buckram-backed boards, first Edition, half red buckram with matching corners, near fine,top edge gilt. Tight and unmarked rough cut for edge. B65 Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
Strachey, Lytton. PORTRAITS IN MINIATURE. Signed. London: Chatto and Windus, 1931, 1931.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. Number 140 of 260 Special copies Numbered and Signed by the author. A handsome copy in half maroon buckram over beige cloth, gilt titles to the spine. Teg. Tall 8vo. 218 pp. Inimitably Strachey-ian essays on Congreve, Collier, Macaulay, Carlyle, Boswell.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Strachey (Lytton). Portraits in Miniature and other Essays.. Chatto & Windus, 1931.
Price: US$384.80 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, some light spotting, pp. [viii], 218, crown 8vo, original blue-grey cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt and a little faded with slight lean to spine, top edge grey, and slightly dusty, other edges faintly spotted with tail edge roughtrimmed, the flyleaf with the owership inscription of Saxon Sydney-Turner (converted to an ex dono inscription for Barbara Bagenal, see below), dustjacket slightly browned and chipped with the book-label of the author (a design by Carrington, rather rubbed) affixed to backstrip panel, very good. An excellent Bloomsbury association copy, with the signature of Saxon Sydney-Turner incorporated into the ex dono inscription of Barbara Bagenal (dated May 1931). Bagenal (née Hiles) was a friend of Carrington from the Slade, and thereby in Strachey's circle, who assisted the Woolfs with their early printing and had relationships with Clive Bell, Saxon Sydney-Turner, David Garnett and John Maynard Keynes.
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom