Invoices bearing letterheads can often be found among boxes of ephemera at auctions, but rarely does one come across an invoice on which a l...

Found on a late 1960s bookmark from the renowned Holland Park bookseller Peter Eaton adapted from essays of John Cowper Powys in his 1938 wo...

This is from an uncommon self improvement work from circa 1930 The 100% Office (Efficiency Magazine, London) by the prolific Herbert N. C...

From The New Illustrated Universal Reference Book (Odhams, London 1933). It called itself 'the book of a million facts' and was a so...

Sent in by a sharp-eyed jotter this aside on the slightly  forgotten writer and belle-lettrist E.V. Lucas  (not to be confused with E.V. Kno...

Found in the Donald Rudd collection of detective fiction at the back of Death of a Millionaire (Collins 1925) amongst the publishers announc...

From a Bookman's Budget by the estimable Austion Dobson (OUP 1917). The case was reported in the Westminster Gazette of 1916 but has a s...

From the fearless British reporter Noel Barber the first Briton to reach the South Pole since Scott. Found in  The Artists and Writers Cookb...

Cotton cords, Drills, Fustians, Jeans etc., This classified ad from the Chelmsford Chronicle of 17 April 1829 shows that you could buy...

Sent in by faithful jotter R.M. Healey. My nearest thing to this was walking through Elizabeth David's hall past some serious antiquaria...

From Swinging London's Fabulous Magazine 23/10/1965 a piece by Sheena McKay on starspotting around Carnaby Street. The beginnings of a ...

On this day 5th of October 1162 the Emperor Barbarossa threw a tagged baby pike into a pond. Weighing 350 pounds, the same pike was caught a...

From Gear Guide (Hip Pocket Guide to London's Swinging Fashion Scene) published in London in May 1967. Bill 'Vince' Green was...

Charles Chetwyn Talbot, 20th Earl of Shrewsbury (1860 – 1921) was this man, and it turns out that he was a bit of a cad. Having inherit...

Found in Mostly Monsters by John Robert Colombo (Ontario 1977). A curious work of 'found' poems mainly from monster books and movie...