Published between 1737 and 1739, Blackwell's superb guide to medicinal plants was conceived as a money-making solution when her husband was in debtors' prison. All 500 plates are finely repr... read more
Delicious book for small people in which the delightful Miffy goes to look at Vermeer's paintings. Published in collaboration with the Rijksmuseum, and to coincide with their Vermeer exhibit... read more
By extraordinary chance, the author discovered an address book in the inner pocket of a vintage diary dating back to 1951. It disclosed an amazing list of luminaries from the European avant-... read more
A short catalogue of the small but perfectly formed Freud exhibition at the Garden Museum. Drawings, oil sketches, paintings, of flowers, leaves, his Zimmerlinde, tatty buddleia-filled back ... read more
A charming self-published book about Great Bardfield, the Essex village that became home to several artists, including Ravilious and Bawden; like a picture within a picture, it's also about ... read more
What exactly is it that we preserve - and pay for - so carefully? Stourton looks at various parks, buildings and collections and charts two particular periods of conservation - the 1880s and... read more