A room in Dennis Severs' House  18 Folgate Street Spitalfields.

In 1929 Henry Lamb painted this portrait of the 26-year-old Evelyn Waugh, who had just published Decline and Fall © Lord Moyne.

The beautiful lettering and colours of this map means it must be old: it's 1950s. Lamb's Conduit Street runs north from the 'D' of  Theobalds Road (it should apparently be pronounced 'tibbalds', but we stick sedately with Theo-balds; it sounds rather peculiar to say, 'I'm going up to Tibbles Road to get a sandwich from Pret'). 

The American actress Louise Brooks 1906-85: the ultimate bob.

Eric Ravilious designed 'Harvest Festival' for Wedgwood in 1936; it was renamed 'Persephone' in 1938. In 1953, ten years after his death, the design was re-manufactured as a 1200 piece set, of which this coffee pot was part, used at a Coronation banquet.

Wilson Steer painted Boulogne Sands  © Tate Britain in 1888-91.

There are quite a few heroes (dozens of heroines of course) at Persephone Books. First up has to be Schubert. (Unless EM Forster was the first, a couple of weeks ago.)

Last night, at the end of a day celebrating our tenth birthday, we simply slumped in a chair and tried to look like The Wedding Guest by Rose Hilton  (painted c. 2000).

During Virginia Woolf's childhood, when she and her family spent summers at Talland House, her view of the lighthouse was from the St Ives side of the bay. However, in 1905, when this photograph was taken, she went to Carbis Bay with her siblings, and they most probably saw Godrevy lighthouse from Gwithian. 

A page from one of Virginia Woolf's notebooks, 1924.

The beautiful colours in Dora Carrington's 1921 Farm at Watendlath  (in the Lake District) are (nowadays) very Farrow and Ball.  The painting is at Tate Britain. 

Monica Dickens, great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens, in the Dickens Room in the New York Public Library in 1948, eight years after she wrote Mariana. Photograph by W. Eugene Smith for Life Magazine.

Evening blouse and bag made with a ration book print; the design repeats the number '66', the number of clothing coupons each person was allocated in the '40s.  We used the same fabric for the endpaper of Persephone book no. 4 Good Evening, Mrs Craven: The Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes. 

Bicycling down Hornsey Road (cf. the previous post) should be on a Pashley bicycle. And the basket has room for several Persephone books. 

This sign for the disused swimming baths and laundry in Hornsey, North London still exists: you can see it if you cycle down Hornsey Road.

We fleetingly  considered the idea of putting an Aga in the basement. Please ask, when visiting the Bloomsbury shop, if you would like to see a genuine 1710 basement kitchen, now - after a hundred years as grocer's storage - the Persephone book depository; alas unheated by an Aga.

E M Forster in his rooms at King's College, Cambridge in 1968.  The bookcase to the extreme right of the photograph was designed by Forster's father and has pigeonholes at the bottom labelled in his handwriting; after Forster died in 1970 King's College sold off his  possessions, but this bookcase is now back in a house in Cambridge and contains Persephone books.  © Edward Leigh, KCC  Archive Centre.

Flowers in a Jug c. 1930 by Eileen Mayo (1906-94); according to the Dictionary of Artists' Models (2001), she was Laura Knight's favourite model in the late 1920s .

Laura Knight first did a mug for the coronation that never happened – Edward VIII's – and then did this for George VI's coronation in May 1937.

The Senigallia Madonna by Piero della Francesca, painted c. 1470, Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino.

A Morris Traveller,  the car of choice for Persephone Books; we would buy one for our rep (the person who goes round to bookshops selling a publisher's books) if we had a rep.

This card is for sale in the shop – it's the cover of Helen Simpson's 1934 manual, which covers everything from decorating to doctors to motoring.