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Four Pieces by Albert Wainwright
I am grateful again to reader of Front Free Endpaper and collector of Albert Wainwright artwork, Padraig for providing a small selection of images from his collection. I think, without particularly...
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The Quite Hard Book Quiz: A Reminder
I hope you have all had a very happy time over the Christmas period...Of course, there is New Year next and we are now in that odd little week where things are normal and yet, not quite back to normal!...
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Pink Narcissus and The Gates of Paradise
Films and Filming magazine has been a regular visitor to this blog for a little while now since a pile of them landed on my desk before Christmas. This issue must be the only cinema magazine ever to...
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Not Your Average School Photo
This is a rather fun way of remembering your time at school even if it does seem a bit above and beyond the normal! A booklet of stiff card which has a photo of the school inside and out, a photo of...
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Pouring Wainwright
Well, as they say, it never rains but it pours. It's been a good couple of months for work by Albert Wainwright and I was delighted the other day to be able to facilitate the sale of these four pieces...
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Book Ephemera #2: Camps Library
The second item in this series of bits and pieces from my huge collection of book and publishing related ephemera. This is a very sweet postcard, presumably distributed inside new books appealing for...
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Book Ephemera #3: Sir Allen Lane
Just to get this series going a little, here's another of the items from my collection of book and publishing related ephemera hot on the heals of #2. This is the invitation card and menu for a dinner...
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Six Glass Constellations from the Mauretania
These six panels were made from glass: sandblasted, acid etched and brilliant cut. They came from both the Mauretanias where they were part of the decorative scheme in the restaurant positioned on...
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Two and a Bit by Vernon Stokes and Cynthia Harnett
Two and a Bit by Vernon Stokes and Cynthia Harnett. A charming book this from 1948 tells the story of a brother and sister, who get on so well they might as well have been twins (like all siblings in...
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WW2 Aerial Photographs
I have always had a bit of a thing for unintentionally abstract vintage photographs and today I bought a large bundle of WW2 Aerial photographs taking during bombing raids over Nazi-occupied Europe in...
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Paul Hoecker and the Secret Painting
Paul Hoecker will perhaps be best known to readers of this blog for his portrait of Nino, the lover of Baron Adlesward-Fersen on Capri (bottom). But a friend of Front Free Endpaper has recently sent...
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Mercury at the Met
Anonymous 17th Century Spanish pen and ink of MercuryFollowing on a link from the ever informative 'weekend links' of John Coulthart I discover that The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has just...
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Book Ephemera #4: Methuen Autumn 1925
These publishers' lists are always a delight. Often found tucked inside books from the same year they refer to. This one consists of a folded sheet making four pages of the non-fiction list and then a...
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Kate Seredy Illustrates The Gunniwolf
Ever had that strange experiences of looking something up on Google, only to discover all the top links direct you to a post you wrote on your own blog and had forgotten about? Well that's what these...
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George Mallory Climbing Buff
George Mallory, known to the world as part of the story of Everest and the man who coined the phrase "because it's there", has featured on Front Free Endpaper before, courtesy of his links with the...
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Joyce Mercer Illustrates The Magic Shop by H. G. Wells
Joyce Mercer (1896-1965) might be my new favourite illustrator at the moment. Here are her drawings for H. G. Wells's The Magic Shop in this 1930 edition of The Children's Play-Hour Book. Mercer...
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Crucifixus by Philip Core
Philip Core was an astonishing man and artist who has featured a couple of times already on this blog, including quite a long biographical post so I am just leaving these here by way of an 'update'...
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Eclectic Bunch of Vintage Photos
A somewhat eclectic mix of vintage photographs harvested from the internet and presented for your viewing delight.
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The Reincarnation of Peter Proud
Another bundle of Films and Filming, the 60s and 70s magazine that looked at cinema with a decidedly homoerotic eye arrived in my study today. As ever they yield up interesting films that one has...
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