Stationery

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 30 colour images in this postcard collection are reproductions of posters commissioned by London Underground, most in the first half of the 20th century. The artists include Edward Bawden, Dora Batty and Fred Taylor.

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.

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 of postcards includes work by such celebrated photographers as Robert Capa, Inge Morath, Eve Arnold and Martin Parr.

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 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.

What happens when you put two dogs in a photo booth? Lynn Terry tried it and the result, Tails from the Booth (2015), became a huge success. Here some of the canine mug shots adorn the covers and (in sepia tone) the pages of three notebooks: one plain paper, one lined, one squared.

Most of the 40 colour reproductions of posters in this address book date from the 1920s and ’30s and were designed to encourage travelling around the city by Underground. The book has hidden wire binding and space for 480 entries in total, six per page.

Featuring the classic Paseo pattern that was inspired by the embroidered motifs of the capes of Spanish bullfighters in the 19th century, this 128-page unruled notebook features a gold-embossed cover, gilded page edges, die-cut front/end pages and a chevron-striped ribbon marker.

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.

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.

From bridesmaid to great-grandmother, this selection of photographs from the Press Association archives presents scenes from the life of possibly the most photographed woman in the world: Queen Elizabeth II. The photographs span a period of 80 years, from 1931 to 2011, and are mostly informal, whether Her Majesty is trooping the colour or the corgis. 20 snap out postcards.

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.

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 ten cards in this set, five each of two designs, feature images of Hampstead Heath and Kew Gardens and were created by the poster artist Fred Taylor for the London Underground. They are printed on high-quality card and are blank inside.

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.

Featuring Christian Lacroix’s iconic Butterfly Parade design, this couture A4 hardback notebook is ideal to use as a journal, photograph album or scrapbook. It features 128 un-ruled pages, die-cut endpapers, silver and gold gilded page edges and a chevron striped ribbon marker.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 are 16 cards in total. There is no glue on the envelopes.

With hard covers featuring Parrot Tulips from Album van Eeden (1872) and bound in dark green linen, this attractive five-year journal is based on Remarkable Plants That Shape Our World by Helen and William Bynum and is lavishly illustrated with drawings and prints from the collections of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew.

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.

A simple way to make your gift wrapping a work of art is to use paper designed by an artist. This book contains wrapping papers that are well-printed, semi-gloss reproductions of variations of the paisley pattern that were designed in 19th-century France and Scotland, and sport the distinctive teardrop motif. With introductions to the patterns' artistic context in English, German and French; and 10 folded sheets of 10 different designs (50x70cm).

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.

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.

Based on a design by Molly McGrath, whose inspirations are the geometry, colours and curves of Moroccan architecture, this notebook has a black, laser-cut board forming a lattice over the vivid pink, orange and pale-green cover. The 128 pages are lined in neon orange, with orange endpapers and decoration at the foot of each page.

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.

These books contain wrapping papers that are well-printed, semi-gloss reproductions of period fabric designs: paisley motifs from 19th-century Scotland; traditional American quilt designs; French ‘Fauve' birds and butterflies from the 1920s, lush floral designs, and intricate floral patterns from provincial France. Each book contains 10 folded sheets of 10 different designs(50x70cm) and information on their artistic context. Text in English, French and German.

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.

Based on Original Fuji, Meguro, one of the most popular prints from 100 Views of Edo by Ando Higoshige (1797–1858), a delicately coloured Japanese landscape embossed on foil provides the cover of this notebook. It 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.

With Erté’s woman in black with a greyhound, an iconic image of 1920s Art Deco, on its embossed foil covers, this journal has 144 ruled pages, a silk marker, internal pocket and a magnetic closing flap.

With a gold, scarlet and black cover based on Theophile Steinlen's original poster for Le Chat Noir – the first ever 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.

Autumn Flowers, the design featured on these playing cards, was created by the great Arts and Crafts designer William Morris (1834–1896) and, like so many of his botany-inspired patterns, it is still in use as a wallpaper design today. Two packs, one blue, one green.

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.

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.

The subjects range from Druids to Victorian tennis players in these paintings by ‘Glasgow Boys’ including Sir John Lavery and Sir James Guthrie. Envelope not included. Please note: the May bank holiday has been moved since 2020 calendars were printed; each calendar contains an addendum slip with information on the new holiday.

These late 19th- and early 20th-century paintings from the Tate collections are all female nudes apart from Kirchner’s mixed Bathers at Moritzburg. Envelope not included. Please note: the May bank holiday has been moved since 2020 calendars were printed; each calendar contains an addendum slip with information on the new holiday.

Late 19th- and early 20th-century photographs of country life and work on the land offer a glimpse of the past and Britain’s rural heritage. Envelope not included. Please note: the May bank holiday has been moved since 2020 calendars were printed; each calendar contains an addendum slip with information on the new holiday.

This perpetual diary is ideal for keeping track of gardening tasks and what bloomed when. The book features full-colour reproductions of paintings from the Royal Horticultural Society’s Lindley Library, along with black and white line drawings to colour and create your own artworks.

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.

As well as space to record your own weather observations, this diary contains useful information about how to identify cloud types, explanations of weather phenomena, such as contrails and sun pillars, and watercolour illustrations.

This memory game features 36 pairs of cards, all reproductions of some of the creative commercial art that was commissioned by London Underground in the early 20th century.

Created by Rosemary and Clifford Ellis, former Head of the Bath Academy of Art in Corsham, the images on these 20 blank notecards represent the first of their many posters for London Transport. The designs (five of each) feature a bird associated with each of the four habitats: a heron, a woodpecker, an owl and a kestrel.

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.

Every page embellished with medieval ornament and miniatures from manuscripts in the British Library collections, this Book of Days can be used to record birthdays, anniversaries and annual events. It is arranged with one week to one page, always with a facing painting. The cover shows the Annunciation, set in a field of flowers, from the 15th century Book of Hours, Use of Sarum.

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).

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.

The I Like Birds brand has become extremely popular recently. Printed on FSC-approved paper, and suitable for menu planning, shopping lists, after school activities and general to-do lists, this A4 pad comprises 52 tear-off week-to-view sheets, offering five separate columns for each day. The six different page designs feature graphic-style illustrations of a goldfinch, chaffinch, bullfinch, blue tit, greenfinch and song thrush.

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.

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+

Apart from a pair of tango buskers in Buenos Aires, Beryl Cook’s subjects are the good folk of her home town, Plymouth – dog-walkers, cyclists and jolly buxom women.