Since we cannot hold our Bloomsbury Jamboree at the Art Workers Guild this December, we have put it on ice until next year. In the meantime, in collaboration with publishing pals, Joe Pearson of Design for Today and Tim Mainstone of Mainstone Press, we present our twelve books of Christmas to cheer your spirits and entrance your friends and family during the long winter nights.
An exploration of the work Paul & Marjorie Abbatt, dipping into the world of thirties British modernism and celebrating the colourful wooden toys sold in their Erno Goldfinger-designed London shop.
A guide to setting yourself up to screen print at home. You do not need expensive equipment just passion and enthusiasm, which this riso book has in buckets!
Poet Laureate Simon Armitage’s first book of his tenure, a contemporary re-working of the Brothers Grimm tale, set in a war-torn land, illustrated by Clive Hicks-Jenkins.
A celebration of the art of the matchbook as handed out at the ‘Mom & Pop’ motels of the fifties and sixties. Twenty-eight matchbook covers have been lovingly screen printed for this book.
“This sumptuous reissue with a meticulously researched and well-illustrated commentary by Alan Powers will delight devotees alike of Piper’s idiosyncratic artwork and Brighton.” TLS
Showcasing the remarkable talent of wood engraver, Eric Ravilious. Author James Russell sets out to discover the places that inspired Ravilious, explore the books he illustrated and meet the people he portrayed.
A riot of colour and delicious book jacket design covering seven decades from one of our favourite illustrators. “Buy 10 copies and declare your Christmas shopping done.” Sunday Times
Martin Salisbury explores the range of John Minton’s graphic work, from book and magazine illustration, dust jacket design and press advertising, to film posters, stamps, and wallpaper.
More than six hundred of the Gentle Author’s favourite photographs of London, setting the wonders of our modern metropolis against the pictorial delights of the ancient city and celebrating the infinite variety of life in the capital.
In this first London Sikh biography, Suresh Singh tells the candid and surprising story of how his father came to Spitalfields in 1949. Includes family recipes to cook your own Sikh feast.
“This small, beautiful book is an elegy to companionship. Encompassing both the everyday and the profound, it should be judged no less valid for the fact that the friend in question is a cat.” TLS
The appalling life of Joseph Merceron (1764–1839), East End gangster and corrupt magistrate, who accumulated enormous wealth while presiding over the creation of the poorest slums in Georgian London.
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