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  • Label it

    21 February 2016

      Is there anything nicer than a paper card price label? Especially one so directly associated with buying textiles. And...

  • Playtime

    17 February 2016

      Shelf Appeal tries not to collect children’s books. For where would that end? Buckling shelves and a collecting headache,...

  • Scientific and technical

    26 January 2016

      This is just the sort of back book cover Shelf Appeal likes. Because as an amateur part time ephemeral-detail...

  • Never have too many

    11 January 2016

    The number 2 bus in Stockholm took me to the door of the Transport Museum there. At the back of...

  • Jaeger for Christmas

    26 December 2015

    What a glowing edition of the Jaeger Staff News magazine from Christmas 1953. The Rene Gruau cover illustration imbues such...

  • Makes you smile

    29 November 2015

    Shop windows aren’t what they used to be. Christmas is the season. But apart from Selfridges and Harvey Nichols (for...

  • Enveloped

    1 November 2015

    Envelopes are rather satisfying things. In amongst the paper bits and pieces that Shelf Appeal has tucked away is this...

  • Simpson and Jones

    11 October 2015

    Shelf Appeal is very fond of Barbara Jones’ illustrations. And very fond indeed of the shop that was Simpson Piccadilly...

  • Charles and his ephemera

    21 September 2015

    Today I get to go to my own book launch. Not something I ever thought I would be doing. I...

  • Felt toys

    30 August 2015

    Dryad Press books are very often lovely. They appeal to the craft side of my brain. They make me want...

  • Small picture books

    14 August 2015

    Shelf Appeal can deny no longer the presence of at least one collection on the shelves. Of small books, booklets...

  • Modern hen

    2 August 2015

    The 1951 Festival of Britain is of consistent interest here at Shelf Appeal. The exhibition was a fleeting sight in...

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