Publisher:  Francis Boutle Publishers
ISBN 978 1 8380928 7 0
189 pages, illustrations (coloured)

Description:  “Cornwall is an ancient nation with its own identity, culture and langauge. This books is about the surviving graphic evidence of how the Cornish communicated and shaped their cultural identity before the modern world.   It marks the exhibition, in 2021, of several of the iconic books of Cornwall – including the Bodmin Gospels and the Ordinalia – at Kresen Kernow, the Cornish National Archive… This book celebrates and contextualises them and introduces…the surviving landmarks of the written (and spoken) word and related symbols and images, discussing the issues that they raise for Cornwall and its contribution to our global cultural identity.” (Cover blurb)