Stationery

The Red Art Box shares its cover design with The Art Book and contains 25 different fine, semi-matte greetings cards with images from that hugely successful sourcebook of art and artists. There are reproductions of works by artists ranging from Audubon to Van der Weyden and accompanying text on the back of each card. They are blank inside for personal messages.

Reproduced from Fifty English Steeples by Julian Flannery, 16 pristine, meticulously accurate line drawings celebrate some of the finest medieval parish church towers and spires in England. Each of the high-quality, matt, pale-cream cards (white inside) has a different tower or spire. They are presented in a pale cream and purple box, with white envelopes.

Spanning half the globe, from Britain and Europe, eastward to the coast of California, the map reproduced in shades of cream and grey on these textured cards dates from the era when Australia was ‘New Holland’ and India was ‘Hindoostan’. The map also lines the envelopes and covers the rigid, lidded box. Twelve cards with ungummed envelopes.

The National Gallery in London houses one of the world’s greatest art collections and this book of pull-out postcards presents 20 of its finest masterpieces. Among the paintings reproduced on these good quality matt cards are the Madonna and child with a host of angels from The Wilton Diptych (1395–9), Caravaggio’s Supper at Emmaus (1601) and Van Gogh’s famous Sunflowers (1888).

In vivid colours, with dark blue and gold foil as well as pastel shades, and in three different geometric designs – long diamonds, divided circles and split squares – these notebooks form an attractive set. Each book has 96 white, lined pages.

The covers of these notebooks feature three decorated papers from the British Library collection: a late 19th-century blue and white Japanese block printing; a colourful, dynamic example of 20th-century European marbling; and an early 20th-century Italian block printing in blue, black and gold. There are two larger notebooks (one lined, one plain) and a plain pocket-size book.

This set of postcards features high quality, matt reproductions of some of the finest landscape paintings in the National Gallery’s collection, including works by Edouard Manet, Georges Seurat, JMW Turner, Akseli Gallen-Kallela and John Constable.

Published in 1905, the original Black Cat Book was a volume of children’s rhymes by Walter Copeland, teeming with black cats and kittens drawn by the English illustrator Charles Robinson (1870 –1937). The cats are restricted to the covers and endpapers in this notebook, leaving the lined pages free for your thoughts.

This book of wrapping papers contains ten sheets with ten different designs based on bicycle spokes, gears, frames and tyre tread, plus twelve matching gift tags. Papers are folded and perforated for easy removal.

Touring, mountain, road and recumbent bicycles, BMX bikes, tandems and folding bikes... Each of 100 modern-era bicycles is photographed against an immaculate white background for these semi-matt postcards. There are technical details on the reverse sides and the whole set is contained in a smart red and white card box.

The wrapping papers in this set were inspired by the colourful and almost abstract illustrations of herbs in Caz Hildebrand’s book Herbarium (2016). It comprises ten sheets of wrapping paper, all different designs, folded into the book and perforated to tear out easily, plus matching gift tags.

The ten sheets of wrapping paper folded into this book have ten different designs based on patterns in Caz Hildebrand’s The Grammar of Spice. There are also twelve matching gift tags. Paper and tags are perforated for easy removal.

In her book The Grammar of Spice, Caz Hildebrand matches spices to patterns drawn from Owen Jones’s sourcebook, The Grammar of Ornament (1856). These cards feature the patterns for 16 different spices. The cards and white envelopes are presented in a blue and ochre card box.

Featuring ten sheets with ten different hot chilli designs, this wrapping paper and the twelve matching gift tags are based on illustrations from An Anarchy of Chillies by Caz Hildebrand.

Jalapeño, Scotch bonnet, Japanese Hot Claw... This set of notecards features 16 different chillies, with illustrations by Caz Hildebrand from her book An Anarchy of Chillies. The notecards are blank inside, with white envelopes, and presented in a rigid card box.

The covers of this notebook are pale grey with four swallows sitting on a line, and a lone swallow on the back. Inside, there are orange endpapers and silk ribbon and lined white pages, with the occasional swallow sitting on a top line.

The very smart address book is white with a blue spine and is covered in birds, each sitting on its letter. Inside, there are lined white pages, a blue silk marker and the A–Z of birds, from Avocet to Eggs, Yellowhammer and Zebra Finch.

Puffins fly towards us in an Air Force blue sky on the covers of this study little notepad. The good-quality plain white pages are bound into very tough card covers with bright-orange endpapers, elastic closure and pencil.

In a book full of possibilities for anyone who loves lettering there are ornate outline capitals to colour in or copy, sample typefaces for inspiration, quotations from great designers, a glossary of typographical terms and lined and dotted pages for doodling, designing or even writing a journal.

The blue notebook has blue, green and turquoise stamps on the cover, and light-blue endpapers and marker.

With red, orange and yellow stamps on the cover, this notebook has a dark-red spine, endpapers and marker.

Decorated with illustrations from the RHS Lindley Library – a delicate pink flower on the writing paper and a small purple spray on the envelopes – this set consists of 32 sheets of fine quality paper, with 16 matching white envelopes in a traditional folding case of decorated card.

There are four striking bird designs in this set of greetings cards – Oystercatchers, Puffins, Gannets, and Stilt and Stints. The 15x15cm cards are blank inside, for use on any occasion and have matching envelopes in four colours. Presented in a sturdy card box. There is no glue on the envelopes.

Six animals – rabbit, sheep, goat, bear, fox and chicken – by the American artist and children’s illustrator Andrea Wisnewski are featured on these greetings cards. There are two of each colourful, whimsical design in a boxed set of twelve cards and envelopes. The cards are blank inside for your own message. Slightly off-mint.