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.

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.

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.

This set of 20 postcards features images representing the British Museum’s collection of items from Ancient Egypt, including a gold openwork plaque and funerary amulets.

This set of 20 postcards features images representing items in the British Museum’s collection of items from Ancient Greece. The artworks and artefacts include a detail from the Parthenon and a Minoan gold ornament in the form of a bee.

Designed to encourage the use of public transport to visit the zoo, the 30 posters reproduced in this postcard collection feature a range of exotic animals, from aquatic creatures to those of the jungle, as well as information about the closest stations.

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.

Inspired by different typographic periods and styles, from traditional copperplate to almost abstract modern designs, this book of colourful ‘typewrap’ comprises ten 680x480mm sheets folded into the book and perforated for ease of removal, and twelve mix and match tear-out gift tags.

The designs on the notecards in this boxed set celebrate some of the most interesting and original type design work of the modernist era, including AM Cassandre’s Bifur (1929) and Adrian Frutiger’s Futura (1954).

Known for her bold designs and a colour palette limited to black, white, red and blue, British designer Lulu Guinness’s distinctive style is epitomized on the covers of these notebooks. This boxed set contains three 96-page notebooks, one plain, one lined and one graph paper.

This slipcased set of three notebooks – one lined, one plain and one graph paper – features pen and ink illustrations of New York and Paris by acclaimed fashion artist Megan Hess, who has worked for some of the world’s most prestigious designers.

This set of wrapping papers revisits the 1950s with strong, colourful designs that are now enjoying something of a revival. There are ten folded sheets (680x480mm when unfolded) in ten different designs, with perforations for easy removal and twelve co-ordinating gift tags.

Illustrated with exotic flowers and birds from the world-famous Royal Horticultural Society's Lindley Library, this set comprises one lined, one blank and one graph paper notebook in three different colourways.

These notebooks, one plain, one lined and one with graph paper, feature intricate colour illustrations from the collection of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew on their covers. Each book has 64 pages.

Comprising two each of eight designs, these notecards feature bright, stylized floral patterns by Henry Wilson. Measuring 140x100mm, they are yellow inside and accompanied by yellow envelopes.

The fairy on the pale gold embossed foil cover of this notebook is based on a painting from one of the many books of myth and fairy tales illustrated by Warwick Goble (1862-1943). The notebook is one of a luxurious series, with 176 ruled pages of cream paper, scarlet endpapers, a silk marker and a pocket for loose papers. The book closes with a solid magnetic side flap.

The embossed foil cover of this luxurious journal is perfect for reproducing the glowing colours of the Angel Stained Glass Window from the famous Tiffany Studios. Inside there are 176 ruled pages, scarlet endpapers, a silk marker and a pocket for loose papers. The book closes with a solid magnetic side flap.

Printed with abstract floral designs from Pattern and Ornament in the Arts of India by Henry Wilson, this gift wrap book comprises ten brightly coloured and folded papers and 12 gift tags. Perforated for easy removal, each sheet measures 680x480mm.

Reproduced as a book of postcards, this is an A–Z of decorated initials, each one set within foliate or abstract ornaments, often with miniatures of animals or people within the letters. The initials are from medieval manuscripts in the Bodleian Library’s collection and are introduced by Professor Michelle Brown of the University of London.

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.

This spiral-bound planner comprises four tabbed inserts – 52 non-dated weekly planner pages, easy-tear-off shopping lists, monthly budget pages and notes for holidays/special occasions, plus an elastic strap closure. The cover design features a parliament of different species of owls.

The distinctive designs of I Like Birds, a small design studio based in Moray in Scotland, feature in these 20 colourful postcards. Printed on heavy stock card, the collection contains two each of ten designs, including puffins, owls and kingfishers.

The stylized image of two Great Crested Grebes features on the covers of these two notebooks, with a small repeated pattern on the plain notebook and a single reflected picture on the lined one. 48 pages each.

Featuring a peacock from St Matthew’s Gospel in the Book of Kells on its front cover, this hardback journal contains 128 lined pages and a contrasting blue elastic band closure.

These iconic images from photographic agency Magnum span more than 80 years and reflect diverse aspects of life in London, from red buses and the excited crowd watching the 1937 coronation parade to a tranquil morning swim in Hampstead in 2014. The collection includes work by such celebrated photographers as Robert Capa, Inge Morath, Eve Arnold and Martin Parr.

This boxed set comprises four cards each of four enlarged details from the manuscript: a peacock from St Matthew’s Gospel, and lions and peacocks from decorated initials. 16 notecards with green envelopes.

With the ‘When Puffins Go Shopping’ design on its cover, this gift wrap book contains twelve folded sheets of wrapping paper in four Puffin and Oystercatchers designs, and twelve round stickers. Each sheet measures 594x440mm and has a gummed edge for easy removal.

Taking inspiration from the decorative arts of India as illustrated in Henry Wilson’s The Floral Patterns of India (2016), this book comprises ten sheets of wrapping paper in ten different designs, along with matching gift tags. Unfolded, the sheets measure 680x480mm and are perforated for easy removal.

With more than 300 designs reproduced from Henry Wilson’s The Floral Patterns of India (2016), adapted for self-adhesive tape strips, round stickers and oblong gift tags, and printed in many different colours, this book provides the finishing touches for gifts, whether you are using plain coloured wrapping paper or matching Indian designs.

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 collection of 12 sheets of gift wrap features 18th, 19th and 20th-century botanical illustrations from the Natural History Museum’s archive, including sunflowers, tulips, oriental poppies, lemons and vegetable roots.

Sourced from the Natural History Museum's library, the 12 wrapping paper designs in this collection showcase a variety of different 18th and 19th-century butterfly, beetle and dragonfly artworks.

With images taken from the book Herbarium by Caz Hildebrand these 16 notecards feature stylized illustrations of a range of plants including Meadowsweet, zingy yellow Lemon Verbena and the purple berries of Myrtle. One of each design, blank inside.

Reproduced from An Anthology of Decorated Papers by PJM Marks (2015), these ten richly ornamented and marbled papers, originally used by bookbinders, are now held in the British Library. The book contains ten sheets of wrapping paper (folded) with ten matching gift tags.

Enjoying the conceit that canine pals or partners might go into a photo booth to have their mug shots taken, this amusingly styled set provides twelve different photostrips of dogs posing for the camera, with notecards on which to mount them and write a message or greeting, and matching envelopes.

Audrey Hepburn, Jacqueline Kennedy, Françoise Hardy and Debbie Harry are among 20 women – film stars, models, musicians and a president’s wife – who have turned heads and set trends. Their portraits are reproduced in black and white or colour in this set of good quality, semi-matt postcards, presented in a pink paper wallet.

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.

These larger size notecards (5"x7") feature reproductions of 'Letter Makers' and 'Cheesemonger', two shop fronts from High Street, a book of lithographs by Eric Ravilious with text by architectural historian JM Richards, originally published by Country Life Books in 1938. The set comprises four of each design, with envelopes.

The very smart address book from the I Like Birds studio 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.

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.

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.

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.

With one of the manuscript’s many depictions of Christ with a peacock on the cover, this boxed set contains 30 high-quality postcards, each showing a different detail from The Book of Kells, including miniature paintings of creatures among the lines of script, examples of the fine calligraphy and ornate initials, complex patterns, and portraits of biblical figures.

Piccadilly Circus is one of the Boat Race Day series of ceramic decoration designed by Eric Ravilious for Josiah Wedgwood and Sons in the late 1930s and now in the Wedgwood Museum. The oval picture is reproduced on the wallet, while the writing paper is pale cream with a tiny Eros at the top, and white on the reverse.

An iconic image of Art Deco and the 1920s, Erte's Symphony in Black is magnificently reproduced on the embossed foil covers of this journal – one of a series that could lend splendour to the most humble jottings. Inside there are 176 ruled pages, scarlet endpapers, a silk marker and a pocket for loose papers. The book closes with a solid magnetic side flap.

With a gold, scarlet and black cover based on Theophile Steinlen's original poster for Le Chat Noir – the first cabaret, opened by Rodolphe Salis in Paris in 1881 – this is one of a series of journals that could lend splendour to the most humble jottings. Inside there are 176 ruled pages, scarlet endpapers, a silk marker and a pocket for loose papers. The book closes with a solid magnetic side flap.

This very attractive little notepad has a detail from JW Waterhouse's famous Ophelia on its stiff board cover and reproductions of 20 more paintings by the very popular Victorian artist. The notepad has 128 ruled white pages, is bound in dark green and beige and has a beige elastic closure.

With a detail from In a Rose Garden (1889) on its cover, this little notepad features reproductions of 21 paintings by the Victorian artist Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912).The notepad has 128 ruled white pages and is bound in dark pink, with a pink elastic closure.

With this colouring book you can take inspiration from Van Gogh's paintings to create your own unique artwork. Choose from landscapes, street scenes, interiors and portraits, including Self-Portrait With a Bandaged Ear, Sunflowers, The Bedroom and Starry Night Over the Rhône. The book also provides a brief biography, captions and a guide to the colours originally used in each painting.

In this book, the intricate Art Nouveau works of Alphonse Mucha have been adapted into 45 detailed line drawings that you can colour yourself, choosing either to copy the original or produce your own interpretation. Each picture is accompanied by a sample section of the original painting, and the pages are perforated so your creations can be easily removed and framed.

An excellent classroom resource, this pack contains eight double-sided A3 posters and an information leaflet explaining how Hadrian’s Wall was built, how it might have looked and how it functioned.

From Brunel’s steamship, Great Eastern, under construction in 1857 to a panorama of St Pancras station in 1895, the eight photographs in this collection are selected from the National Monuments Record and highlight developments in transport in the 19th century. Age 9+

Age 9+

This collection of 20 pull-out postcards is printed on high-quality cardstock and illustrated with images of flowers, butterflies and birds from the archives of the Royal Horticultural Society's world-renowned Lindley Library.

The influential graphic artist Edward Kauffer (1890–1954) is perhaps best remembered for the artwork he created for the London Underground. Two of his poster designs, Flowers of the Hills and Flowers o' the Corn, feature in this 10 notecard and envelope folio.

The twelve notecards in this pack (two each of six designs) feature vibrant, stylized birds drawn by Eleanor Grosch. They are printed on quality card and are blank inside.

A pocket-sized address book with three blank-page sections for each letter of the alphabet interspersed with beautiful photography of the landscapes and seascapes of Dorset.

This hardback address book features lined cream pages and photographs that capture the essence of Suffolk, from beach huts at Southwold to the Abbey Gardens and Cathedral in Bury St Edmunds.

London’s post-war Brutalist and Modernist buildings represent a utopian vision for better living and the geometric purity of their design is emphasized in this collection of striking colour artworks. Among the buildings included are Lasdun’s Sulkin House and Seifert’s NLA Tower.

‘I like to write about my walks and by doing so live them over again,’ wrote Alfred Wainwright: inspired by the great fell-walker and reproducing his drawings from books such as the Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells and the Pennine Way Companion, this notebook is a great encouragement to record your own expeditions. The book includes brief, up-to-date information for walkers and lists long distance walks in the UK, Europe and North America. Off-mint.

With vintage maps reproduced on the covers, this British Library set comprises three A5 notebooks, two with lined paper (pale yellow and grey covers) and one with squared paper (pink cover).

Each of the 50 species featured in this urban birdwatching journal is allocated a two-page-spread – the first showing a colour illustration and facts written by a leading ornithologist; the second blank squares for notes and observations. Sightings can be recorded in a separate section using the enclosed stickers. Age10+

This set comprises three A6 journals, one lined, one plain and one graph, printed on FSC-approved paper and presented in a slipcase. Celebrating the UK’s water birds, the cover designs feature graphic-style illustrations of an avocet, a kingfisher and an oystercatcher.

Drawing on the V&A’s famous collections of fabric design, this set comprises 60 sheets of origami paper printed with designs by William Morris, Owen Jones and their contemporaries, accompanied by clear step-by-step instructions for 10 projects, including birds, boxes, a butterfly and a coin purse.

The pages in this book transform into Christmas cards, gift tags and gift boxes, each featuring folk-inspired festive illustrations by the Bavarian-born papercraft artist Ellen Giggenbach. Each design is perforated for easy removal, and the 3D items have pre-scored fold lines. Age 6+

Featuring four different areas from MacDonald Gill's stylized Wonderground Map, commissioned in 1914 to attract people to the London Underground, these 20 notecards depict Oxford Circus, St James’s Park, Hyde Park and Victoria Station. Five of each design, blank inside.

For gardeners or cooks, these cards suggest growing tips, complementary foods and medicinal uses for 100 herbs and each one is illustrated on the reverse with an abstract design of its plant. The content and images are reproduced from the book Herbarium by Caz Hildebrand.

A springboard for creative doodling, these paper placemats feature blots of colour that just need a few pencil strokes to become monsters, vehicles or birds. Ideal for mealtimes or rainy days, there are 4 mats of 9 different designs.

Inspired by the wide-ranging collection of the British Museum, the line drawings on these 20 postcards include a porcelain tile from the Ming Dynasty, an Italian Renaissance drawing of a putto, and a mid 20th-century barkcloth from Fiji.

In pictures from his many adventures, Elmer the Patchwork Elephant is joined by jungle creatures, his friend Wilbur and his elephant family.

From January’s Snowstorm to December’s Fairy Snowman, each of Jean and Ron Henry’s fairy paintings illustrates a short verse by a famous poet.

Scenes from his long and adventurous history, these twelve pictures of Rupert and friends are from the covers and illustrations of Rupert Annuals.

The stylized image of cyclists that wraps around this softcover journal is adapted from a poster for the 1955 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré, a cycling race that takes place annually in southeast France. Contains 160 lined pages.

Off-mint.

Developed by teachers and educational consultants to support the Early Years Literacy and Numeracy Curriculum, this set comprises two workbooks, a word/number spinning game and a sheet of gold star reward stickers, all presented in a fabric book bag. Age 3+

A springboard for creative thinking, the 40 picture cards in this set feature illustrations of rockets and aliens. Ideas are included for different ways to play, each one encouraging children to develop their imagination and vocabulary as they invent stories inspired by space. Age 6+

With up-to-date mapping, this attractive globe enables children to visualize clearly the geographical make-up of the world, with features such as the expanse of the Pacific and the tilt of the earth’s axis more understandable in a three-dimensional format. Each landmass is coloured by elevation, islands and major seas are identified, and an accompanying booklet offers more detailed information about the 275 images of animals and sea creatures that are depicted. Includes plastic stand and semi-meridian. Will be delivered in separate parcel.