In 1949, six years after the publication of Dorothy Whipple's They Were Sisters, for which this could well have been the cover image, the American edition of Because of the Lockwoods used this picture as an endpaper; thanks to apples and onions.

2 Princelet Street, Spitalfields showing the English Heritage blue plaque to Anna Maria Garthwaite, designer of Spitalfields silks. Photograph by Derek Kendall from Lived in London: Blue Plaques and the Stories Behind Them ed. Emily Cole.

A section of the 1979 Charing Cross underground station mural by David Gentleman; he wrote about it in his 2002 book Artwork. 

The Persephone Post will have lots of posters like this, some which already hang in the office and some, like this 1942 poster by Frank Newbould, which - as yet - do not.

We have one of these chairs, made by the inimitable Thonet, in Notting Hill Gate.

Vanessa Bell The Kitchen at Charleston c 1943, on display at Charleston and  also available from the Charleston shop as a postcard.

The first Persephone book ten years ago this spring, and the most recent: ten years of endpapers wrapped round the grey of a Dean & Deluca cup; first noticed by us in New York in 1998, thereby prompting the question - why can't books look as chic as a coffee cup?