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 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.

With a parliament of owls on its cover, this clever ring-bound organizer is in four parts: a perennial weekly planner; 52 tear-out shopping lists; a budgeting section with squared paper; and pages for listing birthdays, holidays and special occasions.

Since 1947 the co-operative Magnum Photos has chronicled the peoples, cultures, events and issues of the time. Presented in a cardboard case, each of the notecards in this collection features a different iconic street scene by photographers including Martin Parr, Thomas Hoepker and Martine Freck .

Presented in a ribboned box, this postcard set features 100 different classic and modern patterns drawn from the renowned textile company Pendleton's 150-year history. Designs include a range of National Park stripes, iconic plaids, and bold artwork inspired by Native American weaving traditions.

The two sets of standard decks of playing cards presented in this rainbow-hued tin feature colourful gradients on their reverse – one set ranges from red to green, the other goes from blue to purple and has black backgrounds on the facing side.

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.

Featuring artwork from Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar and presented in a sturdy fold-out case, these bite-sized notecards, envelopes and stickers are perfect for tucking into gifts, backpacks, or lunchboxes.

Adapted from the picture book of the same name, this book of 15 pull-out postcards features graphic artist Agnese Baruzzi's colourful illustrations of animals, insects and landscapes.

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.

Decorated with blue, green and turquoise stamps on the cover, this hardback notebook has 128 pages, ruled, with margins and a stamp in the bottom right-hand corner, and a silk marker.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Presented in a sturdy box decorated with an image of a finch from the RHS Lindley Library, this set contains twelve card notelets and ungummed envelopes. The notelets are textured on both sides and feature the bird motif in one corner.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

Courtesy of the Heath Robinson Museum, here are mad contraptions, but also people observed Rooftop Hiking and enjoying The Intellectual Summer Holiday.

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.

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.

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.

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+

Drawing on the V&A’s famous collections of fabric design, this card wallet 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.

Since launching her design company in 1989, Lulu Guinness has become known for her bold images. This notecard set includes two close-up face designs, and two colourways of her iconic lip motif, set against a striped background. Four each of four designs.

Decorated with Lulu Guinness’s distinctive graphic designs, which often feature simple silhouettes and a distinctive black, red and white colour palette, this set contains a memo pad with tear-off pages and five pads of sticky notes.

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+

A detail from The Dew (1900–1) by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, reproduced on embossed silvery foil, forms the cover of this luxurious notebook. Inside there are 144 ruled pages, scarlet endpapers, a silk marker and a pocket for loose papers. The book closes with a solid magnetic side flap.

The covers of these lined notebooks are foil-stamped with floral block-print designs, originally hand carved by artist Katharine Watson at her studio in Maine.

Offering a touch of retro style, the 15 card templates in this set feature geometric patterns printed in vintage colour schemes and gold foil. They fold to create cubes that can be hung or stacked as ornaments or filled with party favours and small treats.

The three 96-page notebooks in this set – one plain, one graph and one blank – feature illustrations of birds and flowers from the world-renowned collection of the RHS Lindley Library on their covers.

Created by experts in language and education, the 50 cards in this pack are designed to help children learn to read the names of the animals, foods and everyday objects that are pictured. There are questions on the back of each card to prompt discussion and interaction. Age 3+

This attractive globe features images of 275 animals and enables children to visualize clearly the geographical make-up of the world, with aspects 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 information about the creatures that are depicted. The booklet contains one editorial error. This globe will be delivered in a separate parcel if more than one title is ordered.

To aid an understanding of the political makeup of the world, each country and its associated territories is clearly coloured and labelled on this globe. The locations of capitals and other major cities are identified, as are large rivers and bodies of water. Also indicated are the international date line and the latitudes of the polar regions and tropics. This globe will be delivered in a separate parcel if more than one title is ordered.

Each of the 20 line drawings in this title is followed by a detachable page with a special coating in which budding artists can scratch their own version, using the enclosed stylus. While there is scope to personalize the final piece or create a unique work, the suggested images include cacti, sunflowers and more stylized floral designs.

Each of the 20 line drawings in this title is followed by a detachable page with a special coating in which budding artists can scratch their own version, using the enclosed stylus. While there is scope to personalize the final piece or create a unique work, the suggested images include geometric and abstract curved designs.

Each of the 20 line drawings in this title is followed by a detachable page with a special coating in which budding artists can scratch their own version, using the enclosed stylus. While there is scope to personalize the final piece or create a unique work, the suggested images include woodland flora and fauna and a unicorn.

These six pencils, with erasers attached, are presented in a sturdy cardboard box with a sliding cover. Their floral design was taken from a fabric sample produced by the Calico Printers’ Association in Manchester in the 1920s.

The stylized flying puffins on the cover of this notebook were created by the popular I Like Birds studio in Moray, Scotland, and smaller versions of the images have been used to decorate some of its lined pages.

This boxed set contains all the materials needed to create four decorative stone projects. In addition to paints, brushes and stones it includes an instruction booklet showing how to use the eight transfers, from a simple leaf motif to a butterfly and a flower.

The covers of the three notebooks in this set – one blank, one lined and one graph paper – feature images of rocky environments based on satellite photographs from the Science Museum’s library.

From her studio in West Wales, Millie Marotta creates intricate line drawings inspired by the natural world. The 192 narrow-lined pages in this journal are interspersed with 15 of her images, all from her Wild Savannah colouring book.

‘People don’t alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.’ Quotations from Terry Pratchett and Discworld and tributes to the late great fantasist are scattered throughout this perennial diary.

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. Pocket Journal.

With famous works of art, magnificently reproduced in colour on their embossed foil covers, silk page markers and scarlet endpapers, these journals could lend splendour to the most humble jottings. Each book has 176 ruled pages and a pocket for loose papers, and closes with a solid magnetic side flap.

With famous works of art, magnificently reproduced in colour on their embossed foil covers, silk page markers and scarlet endpapers, these journals could lend splendour to the most humble jottings. Each book has 176 ruled pages and a pocket for loose papers, and closes with a solid magnetic side flap.

With famous works of art, magnificently reproduced in colour on their embossed foil covers, silk page markers and scarlet endpapers, these journals could lend splendour to the most humble jottings. Each book has 176 ruled pages and a pocket for loose papers, and closes with a solid magnetic side flap.

In each of these sets of colourful cards (98mm x 154mm), 30 different species are illustrated with botanical paintings of flowers and trees, with details of the plants on the reverse. Set of two.

These 64-page journals, two lined and one plain, feature line drawings of birds and an elephant from Millie Marotta’s Animal Kingdom on their jackets, with details picked out in gold foil.