The Mr and Mrs Cook Book
Last year Shelf Appeal was doing some research on interwar cookbooks and leaflets. It’s a bit of a wheeze for...
Last year Shelf Appeal was doing some research on interwar cookbooks and leaflets. It’s a bit of a wheeze for...
Is there anything nicer than a paper card price label? Especially one so directly associated with buying textiles. And...
This is just the sort of back book cover Shelf Appeal likes. Because as an amateur part time ephemeral-detail...
The number 2 bus in Stockholm took me to the door of the Transport Museum there. At the back of...
What a glowing edition of the Jaeger Staff News magazine from Christmas 1953. The Rene Gruau cover illustration imbues such...
Shop windows aren’t what they used to be. Christmas is the season. But apart from Selfridges and Harvey Nichols (for...
Envelopes are rather satisfying things. In amongst the paper bits and pieces that Shelf Appeal has tucked away is this...
Shelf Appeal is very fond of Barbara Jones’ illustrations. And very fond indeed of the shop that was Simpson Piccadilly...
The 1951 Festival of Britain is of consistent interest here at Shelf Appeal. The exhibition was a fleeting sight in...
We really don’t make enough use of cardboard luggage tags. They’re such nice things for luggage to travel with. I...
This little book London Craftsman is a common thing. Not in its looks or content, you understand. But it is...
Cooking is not so big here at Shelf Appeal. The accoutrements of cooking, on the other hand, often make it...