Found - a mimeographed 4 page typed set of instructions for stewards at the royal ceremony. It reveals the amount of detail and planning tha...

Found- a rare piece of Beatnik ephemera, a card from New York's Cafe Bizarre with the phone numbers and name of Rick Allmen who star...

The Great Wheel, which was built for the Empire of India exhibition at Earl’s Court in 1895, and was the ‘London Eye’ of its time, is pretty...

Found  - a Keystone file photo  from March 9th 1963 of 16 year old  novelist Felicity Moxton. Her book  Bonsoir Maitresse: a novel (Pavilion...

There are plenty of biographical anecdotes concerning the experiences of writers using the facilities of the old British Museum Library —fro...

Found in a collection of ephemera this intriguing typed letter from the long vanished New York bookshop Tessaro's. The shop was in Maide...

 A piece of pre-Amazonian technology for ordering books from libraries, a rare, ephemeral survival probably from the 1930s...  An attractive...

A pamphlet found in a Fanfrolico Press book The Antichrist of Nietzsche illustrated by Australian artist Norman Lindsay. Printed about 1927 ...

A piece of  ephemera from Dad's Army days in Kent during WW2 (1942). A sheet of mimeographed paper typed both sides from the Tenterden ...

Kinfauns Castle ( Ship's Nostalgia site ) Found - a list of the entire inventory of a ship's library - Donald Currie & Co...

Found by relentless jotter RR, this rare manuscript  scrap from his collection. The Archbishop of Canterbury believes that Mr Brodie left ...

Fell out of a book - this curious souvenir of what is now known as  The Burma Campaign  - which raged from 1941 to 1945 with the Japanes...

Here is a letter picked up years ago in London among a box of ephemera. It is undated, though the watermark is 1821. It is addressed to ‘M...

Found - a snapshot of W.E. Gladstone (1809 - 1898) the original 'Grand Old Man' (G.O.M.) at his country seat  Hawarden Castle .  He ...

This rant on Harold Wilson's Labour Government came from the Wells (Somerset) Conservative Association. It was a one page flyer printed ...

This scrap of doggerel, found among a collection of holograph letters, has no name attached. It is bad enough to be by William McGonagall...

Yoxford Church Found - amongst a collection of Suffolk ephemera - this one page poem about a late lamented vet who died in the year of t...

Found, if I recall, among bric-a-brac, in a job lot at an auction in the east of England, is this ‘striking’ packet of matches, only thre...

Found - a rare piece of ephemera from the very earliest years of the life of the writer (and cook)  Alice B.Toklas . A gilt edged and gold ...

Found in a Tauchnitz edition of Barry Pain's Stories in Grey (Leipzig 1912) this bookmark advertising an English tea room in Flore...