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A festive card by Lucien Boucher - from the mid 1950s. Wishing everyone a merry yule!
Are you feline festive… then how about some moggylicious Christmas cats? These are by the one and only Edward Bawden for a 1950s Fortnum & Mason Cat-alogue. They are also featured in our book - Entertaining à la Carte - from 2007
The spirit of Christmas is alive and well in East London! If you love old toy theatres then head for @townhousespitalfields on Fournier Street. There’s a magical exhibition of Pollock’s Toy theatres in the gallery that has been curated b
The surreal world of Lucien Boucher… from a 1940s edition of Le Lutrin by Nicholas Boileau. I’ve been a fan of Boucher for a number of years - he was one of the great French illustrators and designers. He’s probably best known fo
A huge thank you to all the people who have been buying books in the run-up to Christmas. As a small independent, it really means the earth… For today’s post we’ve gone a bit arty! And hopefully show how much we appreciate good de
Paris shopfronts and street sellers! These illustrations are by Lucien Boucher and were featured in a book called "Boutiques". Unbelievably they were published 99 years ago by Marcel Seheur with text by Pierre Mac Orlan. Next year marks the