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Issue no.3 Autumn /winter 2024 brings you brand new stories, folk tales, legends and marvellous curiosities : healing wells and holy wells in West Cornwall; a true story - of 'Orlando' and love-triangulation - featuring Virginia Woolf, Vita and Eddy Sackville-West, by the chatelain of Knole, Robert Sackville West; polemical drawing by Biennale-artist Bedwyr Williams; Corbin Shaw! ; altered states, psychedelic medicine and a thrice-moated Tudor tower-house in the marshlands of Otmoor; home, sweet home by The World of Interiors' greatest stylist Jessica Hayns; performing Welsh corgis courtesy of Charlie McCormick; Rowan Williams, archbishop and poet, introducing this issue’s Welsh Odyssey and the legends of the Mabinogi; Chateau Orlando’s founder Luke Edward Hall on excursion to the fashion-fantasy gardens of Clough Williams-Ellis, creator of Portmeirion’s fairyland; the making of brand new Village Green magazine by its creator Jake Williams; David Dawson’s pastoral-paintings; ‘Wales is Not for Sale' and why Hiraeth doesn't mean what we think it means; an ancient dwelling house in Eryri ... and more writing, including one of the most beautiful [true] stories in the world - 'The Bank Manager and the Holy Grail.' 110 glorious colour pages! Founder-editor R A Guilding, contributing editor Luke Edward Hall, art director Jack Henshall, contributing photographer Howard Sooley -
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Issue no.2 Autumn /winter 2023. A portmanteau of houses and green grass, folk, Fairisle and fashion, houses, modern painting and Pop art carving in stone, old cultures and new writing, illustration and photography from co-editor and Chateau Orlando founder Luke Edward Hall, contributions from Celia Paul, Judith Watt, Christopher Sykes, Susan Owens, Stephen Calloway, A. N. Wilson, Rupert White, Sean Ketteringham, Peter York... Ossie Clark meets Rex Whistler at Clovelly, standing stones and ley lines in West Penwith, Bloomsbury and Bring No Clothes, the origins of Boss Morris, f ---Fashion, 70s icon Sir Roy Strong rides again, dirty old SpitalfieldsCreative design by Jack Henshall and photography by Howard Sooley; founded and edited by Ruth Guilding of the bibleofbritishtaste.A limited edition, order here for UK delivery by post, no local pickup availableHurry, hurry, while stocks last! Overseas posting available from Pentreath and Hall and John Sandoe Books, also over the counter sales -
Large glossy high quality colour print with white border, numbered, in an edition of 100, Measures 15 and a quarter inches x 11 inches. Shot on location in the Regent's Park London, April 2013, model Fora wears Aquascutum vintage tweed coat, vintage silk head square by Liberty, pack of dogs on wheels begged, borrowed, beloved. This shoot took several years to set up and realise but it was triumphantly worth it. The very best of the morning's shots were taken by my expert friend Liz Nevill. grateful thanks to Liz and Flora. The title is taken from the poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Atalanta in Calydon. Will be sent rolled in a cardboard tube for safe posting. For postage outside UK: Aus, Canada, USA, £85 oer print and add £18, for Europe add £10, ignore the order form from this page and send via paypal bible@bibleofbritishtaste.com and with a request to me via instagram dm. -
1 unopened paper package containing 12 boxes. Advertising slogans printed on the packaging include, ' SUPPORT HOME INDUSTRIES, EMPLOY BRITISH LABOUR, EVERY BOX OF ENGLAND"S GLORY MATCHES YOU USE MEANS MORE WORK FOR BRITISH WORK PEOPLE. PRICE 3D.' 4.5 x 3 x 2 ins. And 1 unused and full box of Swan Vestas. 2 x 3 ins. UK postage and packing charged at cost. -
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Eric Ravilious's blue-grey 'Travel ' design for Wedgwood. Ravilious (1903 – 1942) worked as a watercolourist, print maker, wood cutter, designer and book illustrator in between the wars England; he died aged 39 whilst working as a war artist. He was commissioned to produce a range of designs for Wedgwood in the 1930s. A few were manufactured and produced before the 2nd World War but the majority were produced by Wedgwood in the early 1950s. Sold together as a set of 3. Displayed against a Ravilious lithograph which will be offered for sale here shortly UK Carrier/ postage charged at cost or buyer collects from London NW5 -
Football history! Three near perfect copies of this historic football document chock-full of pull-out pin-ups and legendary goal shots interspersed with journalism and stories. Team shots, mug shots and players in the bath, very amusing advertising too. A good read. 22x 28 cm. -
The finest illustrated books in the King Penguin series edited by Nicholas Pevsner, watercolours by Kenneth Rowntree whose Pop Art sensibility, graphic style and loving, seeing, eye notices cattle grazing and Nonconformist chapels, church yards and coal mine workings, glimpses through windows, cottages, castles and the sea strand. With an essay by Gwyn Jones, Very clean copy, with a superb trompe l'oeil cover design. Hardcover, 12.5 x 18 cm. In moderate good condition, some bending to cover and bumping to spine -
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A pretty little tin in near perfect condition but with signs of age, mid C20th, 'baby' blue with vignettes of amorous eighteenth century types in flowery-bowery surroundings, pastorals and idylls galore, 15 x 10 x 10h. -
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Unusual brown transferware with pink and blue colour pair of mid C19th plates, decorated with lovers by a lake in a landscape, one marked with a very roccoco cartouche enclosing the pottery factory mark Imperial Colour'd Landscape J.C. - for Joseph Clementson 1839-64. Earthenware manufacturer at the Phoenix Works and (from 1856) also at the Bell Works Hanley (Shelton), Stoke on Trent. Clementson retired in 1867 and passed the business to his four sons and his son in law who continued the business as Clementson Bros. So pretty on a bedroom wall. 10.5 ins. diameter UK postage and packing charged at cost. -
Sepia Victorian studio portrait taken in Camberwell, London, an insouciant sailor-girl posing with a cigarette in a crowded studio mise-en-scene, the Union Jack flying behind her, intended as a gift for a sweetheart or naval-brother? Or a student/model demonstrating a stock studio pose? Or a bit of sauciness? Very jolly! Measures 11 x 17 cm with a crease half way down see photos -
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Noel Carrington edited and commissioned the groundbreaking Puffin Picture Book series, published under the imprint Transatlantic Arts during WW2. He was above all a design propagandist for the well made object who believed that that 'Nothing Need be Ugly’. Eric Ravilious' High Street, Kathleen Hale's Orlando books, Mervyn Peake's Captain Slaughterboard, were all commissioned by Carrington. Brother of the Bloomsbury artist, Dora Carrington, he was one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century in the commissioning, editing and publishing of children's picture books. In good condition, spine and edges slightly bumped. 23 x 19 cm -
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Rather a good read, the confessions of an inveterate poacher and keeper-teaser, snare wires, long-tails, ferrets, natural cunning and pied dogs, but the full glory of this book is in its beautiful black and white graphic illustrations. A eulogy for the end of the old estates and the squirearchy and the resourcefulness of the tradition of poaching practised by the less well resourced, written by a self-confessed 'congenital poacher' with the poetic gift. Good, near perfect condition with paper dust wrapper, lightly foxed and spotted on the fly leaves.14 x 22 cm. -
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Noel Carrington edited and commissioned the groundbreaking Puffin Picture Book series, published under the imprint Transatlantic Arts during WW2. He was above all a design propagandist for the well made object who believed that that 'Nothing Need be Ugly’. Eric Ravilious' High Street, Kathleen Hale's Orlando books, Mervyn Peake's Captain Slaughterboard, were all commissioned by Carrington. Brother of the Bloomsbury artist, Dora Carrington, he was one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century in the commissioning, editing and publishing of children's picture books. In near perfect unread condition. 22 x 18 cm -
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Noel Carrington edited and commissioned the groundbreaking Puffin Picture Book series, published under the imprint Transatlantic Arts during WW2. He was above all a design propagandist for the well made object who believed that that 'Nothing Need be Ugly’. Eric Ravilious' High Street, Kathleen Hale's Orlando books, Mervyn Peake's Captain Slaughterboard, were all commissioned by Carrington. Brother of the Bloomsbury artist, Dora Carrington, he was one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century in the commissioning, editing and publishing of children's picture books. This one is in pristine, unread condition. 22 x 18 cm -
Edward Piper ( (1938- 1990) eldest son of the neo-Romantic painter John Piper and the critic and librettist Myfanwy Piper) was a painter and photographer. As well as his highly distinctive and idiosyncratic black and white landscape and architectural images taken for the Shell County Guides he made hundreds of paintings and photographs of the female nude, In 2000 Prue Piper published this monograph of her late husband’s experimental art photography, Nudes by Edward Piper, in a limited edition of only 1000 copies designed printed at The Dovecot Press. Prue was his favourite model, others were ‘friends of ours, or local girls who liked to show off,’ she says. A limited number of these beautifully printed books, signed and numbered by Prue Piper are available for sale via bibleofbritishtaste.com, price £20.00 plus £5 p and p. (My copy is numbered 378). TO BUY contact Prue Piper: pruepiper@btinternet.com -
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Warner & Sons was a British textile manufacturer founded in Spitalfields and originally specialising in silk for the furnishing industry. It wove the coronation robes for both Edward VII and Elizabeth II. In the 80s it expanded into the exclusive production of chintzes for London decorators Colefax & Fowler, Jean Monro, George Spencer and leading American firms including Brunschwig and Fils, Lee Jofa and Cowtan & Tout. Warners archive of fabric samples, paper designs and documents was sold to Braintree District Museum Trust in 2004, returning to its original location of mill buildings in Braintree, Essex. Carrier/ UK postage charged at cost or buyer collects from London NW5 -
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Cardboard envelope with boldly printed designs, filled with dozens of picture cards, some already prettily coloured in , pencils no longer extant, in good overall condition, slightly foxed. 14 x 12 cm -
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Masterly composition and zingy, Pop art colours, this is a piece of 60s folk art from the days when fairground roundabouts and their rides were still the wooden works of art, carved, painted and traveled by Victorian showmen rather than the tawdry fiberglass casts that have replaced them. 21 x 25 ins. oil on board in original frame. Signed bottom right, 'Stephens,' 1969. Carrier charged at cost or buyer collects from NW5. UK Carrier/ postage charged at cost or buyer collects from London NW5 -
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'KNOCK 3 DOWN TO WIN.' Handpainted showman's fairground sign. Red, yellow, black and green on cream ground. Painted on hardboard with two string fastenings. The 50 pence piece was introduced in to the coinage in 1969, so this fairground sign probably dates from the 1970s, and would have become obsolete once prices increased with inflation. 24 x 14.5 ins. UK Carrier charged at cost or buyer collects from NW5. -
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NOW SOLD Black basalt ware ribbed teapot and lidded sugar bowl by Wedgwood, both with Sibyl finials to lids, matching milk jug, the teapot with an extraordinarily long spout, in perfect condition, probably C20th, UK Carrier charged at cost, or buyer collects from London NW5 -
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Issue no.1 Autumn /winter 2022. A portmanteau of folk and fashion, houses, allotments, gardens and ditches, modern painters and culture, with new writing, illustration and photography from co-editor and Chateau Orlando founder Luke Edward Hall, cultural commentary from Nicola Shulman, Nicky Haslam, Peter York and Rosanna Mclaughlin, counter-culture from Mab George Sanders, Simon Costin and Rupert White, studio-time with David Dawson, Emma Prempeh, Jasper Conran and Charlie McCormick, football hooligans and Cornish Maids… Creative design by Jack Henshall and photography by Howard Sooley; founded and edited by Ruth Guilding of the bibleofbritishtaste.A limited edition of only 800 copies printed, order her for delivery by post, no local pickup availableHurry, hurry, while stocks last! -
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Vintage toile curtains of unglazed cotton chintz in near-perfect unfaded, unstained condition, 2 pairs for short cottage-type casement windows. The pattern of blowsy roses and floral sprays garlanding picture-vignettes of gun dogs - spaniels - and game birds. Cream cotton linings, ruffle tops, a yellow-green sage colour with citrus yellow and blue-green accents in the pattern. Printed with the legend, ' Bird Dogs, Currier & Ives 1957' Two /one pair are 52 cm wide x 84 cm long. Two/ one pair is 115 cm wide x 84 cm long; one of these has the hem let down and requires re-hemming. -
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'Festival of Britain, 1951.' A vividly coloured needlework map of Great Britain mounted on board, featuring Scotsman with bagpipes, a Welsh Harpist, A Cornish fisherman smoking, a mermaid and other jollities. The festival was a national exhibition held in Britain in the summer of 1951; it was organised by the government to give Britons a feeling of recovery in the aftermath of war and to promote the British contribution to science, technology, industrial design, architecture and the arts. One of the national newspapers had the idea of giving away a free sampler pattern to its readers, a map of Britain designed all over with emblems and symbols of national products, local characters, famous landmarks etc. Many of these were worked up in bright embroidery silks and frames. This example has been stitch mounted onto cardboard by the original maker. 24 x 36 cm. UK Postage and packing £6.99 -
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Set of 3 Giant matching breakfast cups and saucers, by Portmeirion Pottery, transfer printed with a maiden in pastoral scene fishing with a lapdog. Postage and packing charged at cost -
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Vintage ecru antique linen, printed with a house in a flower garden, dog, flower twining tree, chicken and floral motifs in a folk-art cross-stitch needlework sampler effect design in red, blue, greens and golds, probably 1940s or 50s, a perfect 8 yard length, measures 32 inches wide. -
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Unsigned and undated, with undecipherable pencil squiggles on the back, a horse and his boy outside a stable, both in fine fettle, a water stain on the mount bottom left, sepia photograph measures 19 x 14 cm, mount, 30 x 25 cm. -
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'Eugenie,' A Colefax and Fowler Design, copyright 1980: a classic full-blown, ' full-look,' glazed cotton chintz from the design studios of Colefax and Fowler. After John Fowler retired in 1971, George Oakes, the talented artist who had worked closely with Fowler on many private commissions, led the textile design studio. His chintzes drew on mid-to-late nineteenth-century documents alongside occasional Regency and 18th-century patterns, and undoubtedly greatly influenced fabric fashions in the 1970s and 1980s. The first collections included the renowned Bowood and Fuchsia chintzes, which retain their popularity and have remained in production ever since. 'Eugenie' is something of a rarity, no longer in production, a strongly patterned floral cornucopia with hydrangea branches , rose sprays and bright, muticoloured garden flowers, highlighted with white and deployed in densely undulating repeats. The ground is a neo-Victorian biscuit-coloured stipple on white cotton. All under a glazed sheen. UK Carrier/ postage charged at cost or buyer collects from London NW5 -
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SOLD. Birds of Britain series, Goldfinch, Nightingale, Blue Tit, Robin, Willow/Sedge Warbler, Linnet, the illustrations for this range were taken from the book Natural History of British Birds by Edward Donovan, published in 1794. Forty birds were featured in the collection, which was not fashionable in the sense of the following trend, but this probably helped its longevity as it did not date and look old fashioned. Lovely bright, characterful pictures: each cache pot measures 10cm tall x 8cm diameter. Sold as a set of 6, UK Carrier/ Postage and packing charged at cost or buyer collects from London NW5. -
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Maverick architect and architectural historian Clough Williams-Ellis, editing a selection of polemical essays by his illustrious friends and acolytes, a compendium of texts urgently seeking to put the country to rights, campaigning for countryside, vernaculars, cultural heritage and the preservation of the best of all these. Contributions from John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, G. M. Trevelyan, and a message of support from the former Prime Minister and Liberal politician David Lloyd George ( Clough would design his commemorative tomb-monument in Wales a few years later). In good clean condition with a blue cloth binding, published by the Readers Union and J M Dent and Sons on the eve of war in 1938. A poignant historical document. With the bookplate of Stuart H. Borland. Illustrated with many sepia photographic plates. -
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Pretty late Victorian or Edwardian soap, muffin, or covered dish in 2 pieces, both perfect, with foliate pattern of flowers and tendrils in russet reds highlighted with gold. Relic, theft or liberated keepsake of some long-gone alumni of Clare College Cambridge in the days when undergraduates enjoyed the upper-middle-class, serviced and monogrammed style of college life, a useful souvenir? Measures approx. 18 cm in diameter. -
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Dahlias For Everyone! by Terence Ronald Harry Lebar, (1961). Foreword by Stuart Ogg, Chairman of the National Dahlia Society. Richly illustrated with technicolour full page colour plates and black and white photographs and diagrams, 28 chapters on how to grow dahlias, in original dust wrapper which is slightly torn and scuffed, printed in Bungay, this copy smells very nicely of wood pulp. UK postage and packing £3.99. -
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A marvelous, unique thing, bought many years ago in a Lewes junk shop, provenance unknown. Masts, rigging, lifeboats, sails and textures all finely delineated on a pillowy sea. Made to stand on a window sill or mantelpiece, a Pop Art interpretation of one of Laurence Whistler's etched glass masterworks, but on a perspex block? Signed bottom right corner, 'OX 78'. Measures 7.5 x6 ins. on a heavy, chunky block approx. 2 ins. thick. UK Carriage /postage charged at cost or buyer collects from London NW5. -
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SOLD. Prue Piper (nee MacKillop) has been making ceramics with a pre-industrial or folkloric theme in her home-studio near Frome for more than 30 years. She married Edward Piper (1938- 1990) eldest son of the neo-Romantic painter John Piper and the critic and librettist Myfanwy Piper in 1961, soon after he graduated from the Slade School of Art, and just as she was embarking on her doctorate in Biochemisty. Being highly practical Prue learned to pot at classes in Frome and then taught herself the rest. Equipped with the (now defunct) kiln from John Piper’s Fawley Bottom studio, she invented Staffordshire-style figurines of the Celtic deity Cernunnos, redolent of John Piper’s Foliate Head prints and tapestries that also referenced the ‘Green Man’ found in the architecture of medieval church buildings. This Green Man plate was created by impressing haloes of oak leaves into the wet clay, which are burnt off in the first firing.With a crack and expert restoration (by Prue) to the reverse, see photo. Approx. 30 cm diameter. Offered for sale by the artist via bibleofbritishtaste.com at £150.00 plus p and p charged at cost. TO BUY contact Prue Piper : pruepiper@btinternet.com -
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Expressive plaster hand-tinted low relief three-quarters portrait in military cap and uniform, eyes, cheeks and lips hand-tinted blue and pink, with hanging loop of ribbon on back, aged and some marks and discolouration. 18 x 13 cm. -
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OUT OF STOCK. Prue Piper (nee MacKillop) has been making ceramics with a pre-industrial , animal or folkloric theme in her home-studio near Frome for more than 30 years. She married Edward Piper (1938- 1990) eldest son of the neo-Romantic painter John Piper and the critic and librettist Myfanwy Piper in 1961, soon after he graduated from the Slade School of Art, and just as she was embarking on her doctorate in Biochemisty. Being highly practical Prue learned to pot at classes in Frome and then taught herself the rest. Equipped with the (now defunct) kiln from John Piper’s Fawley Bottom studio, she invented Staffordshire-style figurines of the Celtic deity Cernunnos, redolent of John Piper’s Foliate Head prints and tapestries that also referenced the ‘Green Man’ found in the architecture of medieval church buildings. These highly naturalistic, life-sized frogs are modelled by hand during her spare evenings, every one is uniquely different. Offered for sale by the artist via bibleofbritishtaste.com at £45.00 plus p and p charged at cost. TO BUY contact Prue Piper: pruepiper@btinternet.com -
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This does exactly what it says, a small informative pamphlet with instructions and simple diagrams, teaching the thrifty British housewife home to beautify her British home with economy and dexterity. Still useful the method has not changed. 6 page pamphlet, 12 x 20 cm
