Products

"I Am Born" Onesie

" I Am Born" on front of white onesie. From "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens.

Baby Lit Shakespeare

Baby's First Books

These four soft board books with padded covers are ideal for babies and toddlers

Black Women of History Pencils

Quotes by Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Sojourner Truth, Ruby Bridges, Shirley Chisholm, Fannie Lou Hamer

Bodleian Library Silk Chiffon Scarf

This charming silk chiffon scarf features an artful montage of Victorian and Edwardian girls’ books with enchanting period titles, collated by the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Book of Hours Silk Chiffon Scarf

The sumptuous imagery is based on illustrations found in copies of the medieval manuscripts; the motifs are printed in the opulent colors used in those works.

Booklover's Cocktail Napkins

Designed with book clubs in mind, but also the perfect gift for any bibliophile, teacher, or librarian. Packaged with 25 or 100 or 250 napkins.

Brontë Characters Mug

These heirloom quality bone china mugs are decorated with humorous illustrations depicting characters from Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë’s literary classics.

Camera Pencil Sharpener

Put the pencil in the top "lens"; turn the handle on the back to sharpen.

Canterbury Cathedral Silk Chiffon Scarf

The flower motifs on this beautiful scarf are taken from 14th century medieval French Lady's Book of Hours, housed in the Canterbury Cathedral Library. The colors are bright and clear but because the scarf is chiffon, have a certain transparency.

Canterbury Tales Mug

These heirloom quality bone china mugs are decorated with characters from some of The Canterbury Tales' best-loved stories. The central characters are drawn in witty detail on the mug and are each depicted with significant details, from a chanticleer and fox to a tub and hay wagon.

Card Catalog Notecards

30 flat notecards and envelopes. The front of each card is a reproduction of an original from the Library of Congress, featuring a work of literature.

Charles Dickens Characters Mug

Heirloom quality bone china mugs decorated with wonderfully detailed humorous illustrations depicting more than 50 central characters from 16 of Dickens’s major works.

Classic Books Wrapping Paper

Two 27.5" x 19.5" sheets of wrapping paper per packet. Imported from Italy.

Classic French Notebooks

Walk into any stationery shop in France and you’ll see an extensive array of these beloved notebooks. We consider this version the most versatile size and binding.

Classic Kaweco Skyline Fountain Pen

“...I love its precision, its modesty, its clarity and its minimal fuss. This is the cheaper, more practical version of a Mercedes.”

Classic Kaweco Sport Fountain Pen

“...I love its precision, its modesty, its clarity and its minimal fuss. This is the cheaper, more practical version of a Mercedes.”

Classic Laid Note Card Presentation Box

50 classic 4" x 6” plain-edged pale blue note cards, with 50 matching envelopes lined with white tissue. The cards have a laid finish. The surface has the appearance of fine lines running the length of the paper.

Cocktail Napkins for Readers

100 paper napkins; 25 each of four quotes on the pleasures of reading by Stendhal, Samuel Johnson, Louisa May Alcott, and Erasmus.

Collective Noun Animals Tea Towel

A prickle of hedgehogs, a parliament of owls, a circus of otters, and more on a hand-screened tea towel featuring 15 wonderfully evocative collective nouns, illustrated.

Collective Noun Animals Tea Towel #2

A hum of bumblebees, a piddle of puppies, a pounce of cats, a drift of sheep, and more, on a hand-screened unbleached cotton tea towel featuring 15 wonderfully evocative nouns, illustrated.

Collective Noun Birds Tea Towel

A chime of wrens, a bouquet of pheasants, a charm of goldfinches, and more on a hand-screened tea towel featuring 15 wonderfully evocative collective nouns, illustrated.

David Levine Author Mug

Caricatures by world-renowned artist David Levine enriched and enlivened the pages of The New York Review of Books for almost five decades. Thirty-three of Levine’s most arresting and iconic caricatures of authors decorate this heirloom quality bone china mug, including the artist’s self-portrait.

Do Not Disturb 1,000-Piece Puzzle

Edward Gorey 1,000-Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Thoughtfully conceived and engagingly intricate, the puzzle features the image “Untitled” (1965) by the incomparable Edward Gorey, creator of the animated opening sequence of the PBS television series Mystery!

Edward Gorey Dancing Cats 300-piece Puzzle

These felines—knitting, skating, balancing, and juggling their way through Edward Gorey's 'Dancing Cats and Neglected Murderesses'—are classic examples of his anthropomorphic animals and Edwardian eccentrics.

Edward Gorey Raining Cats and Dogs Umbrella

Gorey's whimsical drawings of cats and dogs have been painstakingly digitally rebuilt on this sturdy auto-open umbrella.

Edward Gorey Sterling Cat Reading a Book Pin

This sterling silver pin is adapted from a drawing by Edward Gorey that is part of a series of renderings of fanciful cats engaged in unusual activities.

Edward Gorey Sterling Heart Cat Pin

This little cat offers a beloved a red enamel heart, and a bemused expression betrays that he/she might not be quite sure how to do so.

Eudora Welty Cuff Bracelet

“All serious daring starts from within.”

FAF Desk Pad

Manufactured in Paris in a workshop built by Eiffel, a desk pad with everything one would expect of an item with such an estimable pedigree: a unique vintage look, solid construction, and high functionality.