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  • Paul Nash: Wonderfully particular

    23 May 2022

    I had my beady eye on this book coming out. Paul Nash is an artist and designer I always find...

  • May we help you?

    9 July 2018

    Shelf Appeal likes the outsides of shops. And the insides. This photographic postcard is one of a very few images...

  • They stay up

    1 January 2018

    Socks are famously a Christmas present for men. Along with, or instead of, a Boots gift box of Old Spice...

  • Moderna Mytholmroyd

    9 July 2017

    The industrial landscape of West Yorkshire, much of it to do with 19th and 20th century textile history, is still...

  • Perfect for sensitive skins

    24 August 2014

    The ‘smooth to the sensitive skin’ promise of this Meridian underwear booklet is borne out in a small sample of...

  • Slip it in

    21 April 2014

    Whilst I try not to collect Penguin and Puffin books, the paper things that advertised them creep on to the...

  • Costume Books

    9 February 2014

    Typical Shelf Appeal, this. Have the paper ‘list’ catalogue but not the books listed. Although I have, over the years,...

  • For the little people

    31 October 2013

    Shelf Appeal normally likes an oldish book or booklet. A bit of rust around the staples and a bit of...

  • Life-like snaps

    20 June 2012

    An envelope is a nice thing in and of itself. An envelope for a special purpose is perhaps even nicer. This...

  • Summer’s catch

    3 June 2007

    Among lots of other tasty exhibits in the V&A; Surrealism exhibition there is the iconic lobster dress of 1937, designed...

  • Perfect in its bloom

    12 May 2007

    What to buy for your Spring wardrobe? In 1935 from May 18th to 23rd, London store D H Evans (once...

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