Publications
The Bodleian Bookshop website gives details of all Library publications.
The following title, the introduction of which is the standard work on the formation of the John Johnson Collection, is out of print and is now available online:
The John Johnson Collection: catalogue of an exhibition. Oxford, Bodleian Library, 1971
Also online:
A Nation of Shopkeepers: Trade Ephemera from 1654 to the 1860s in the John Johnson Collection by Julie Anne Lambert. Oxford, Bodleian Library, 2001
Visual History from the John Johnson Collection, Bodleian Library
A new series of books will focus on various aspects of the John Johnson Collection. The first, published in May 2011, is Illustrating Empire: a visual history of British Imperialism by Ashley Jackson and David Tomkins.
Also available: The John Fraser Collection of Propaganda Postcards
This superb collection was donated to the Library in 2007 and now forms part of the John Johnson Collection. A series of books has been written by Andrew Roberts, in 2008-2009, on the following themes:
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Postcards from the Trenches |
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Postcards from the Russian Revolution |
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Postcards of Political Icons | |
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Postcards from Checkpoint Charlie |
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Postcards of Lost Royals |
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Postcards from Utopia |





