Christmas gift ideas under £100!

The links below will take you to items under £100 (not including VAT) for other ideas check out more of our gift guides here:

General Gift Guide

Teachers/Professors Gift Guide

Mother's Day Gift Guide

Romantic Gift Guide

Christmas Gift Guide

London

 London is a good choice with iconic landmarks, you're bound to find something that relates to the person you're gifting to.

Calendarium Londinense or the London Almanack for the Year 1927. The Strand.
London. Published by W. Monk. Drawn, & Etched, by W. Monk, 118, New Bond Street, W.1.
Etched image, 180 x 250mm (7 x 9¾"), with calendar underneath, sheet 400 x 290mm (15¾ x 12").
An issue of 'Monk's Calendar', a publication for print collectors founded in 1902 by William Monk (1863-1937) and published yearly until the year 2004. The view looks towards St Mary-Le-Strand.
[Ref: 31626]   £90.00   (£108.00 incl.VAT)

Flowers

They say that you can never go wrong with flowers.

[The Ladies Flower-Garden or Ornamental Annuals.] Pl. 24. 1. Balsamina Mastersiana._ 2. Mirabilis Jalapa._ 3. Impatiens noli-me-tangere.
[by Mrs. Loudon.] Day & Haghe lith.rs to the Queen.
[London: William Smith, 113 Fleet Street. MDCCCXLII [1842]]
Fine hand coloured lithograph, sheet 285 x 215mm (11¼ x 8½"). Slightly time stained.
Features the four o'clock flower and Touch-me-not balsam. From 'The Ladies Flower-Garden or Ornamental Annuals,' by Jane Wells Webb Loudon (1807 - 1858). Loudon was an English author and early pioneer of science fiction. She also created the first popular gardening manuals, as opposed to specialist horticultural works, reframing the art of gardening as fit for young women. She was married to the well-known horticulturalist John Claudius Loudon (1783 - 1843), and they wrote some books together, as well as her own very successful series.
[Ref: 59181]   £75.00   (£90.00 incl.VAT)

Maps

Who doesn't love a good map?

 

England and Wales with the Channel Islands and parts of Scotland Ireland and France.
[James Reynolds, London 1863]
Hand coloured engraving, sheet 240 x 185mm (9½ x 7¼"). Folded as issued, time staining along taped fold.
From 'Reynolds's Geological Atlas of Great Britain'. A geological map of Britain with the land colour coded by rock type.
[Ref: 56924]   £30.00   

Books

We have lost of interesting reference books. A lot of our books don't have images; but don't fret this doesn't mean they are out of stock! We just didn't want you to judge a book by its cover ;).

Creating Art from Anything. Ideas. Materials. Techniques.
Donz Z. Meilach.
Pitman Publishing. First Published in Great Britain 1971. Copyright 1968 by Reilly & Lee, Division of Henry Regnery Co.
4to (285 x 215mm. 11¼ x 8½".), with green cloth covers and gilt title on spine; also with original dustjacket. Dustjacket soiled.
A handbook for students, teachers, artists and enthusiats that explores the use of everyday objects as art materials. The author also includes chapters on working with wood, metal, plastics and mixed materials.
[Ref: 22105]   £30.00  

Satire

A bit of satire may cheer up a scrooge! 

Conviva Satur.
[after Matthew Darly.]
pub. Aug.t 1 1777 by MDarly 39 Strand.
Coloured etching. Sheet 175 x 125mm (7 x 5"). Trimmed within plate, surface scrape on face of subject.
A bewigged man sleeps off his lunch.
[Ref: 51734]   £60.00   (£72.00 incl.VAT) 

Animals

Artwork of their favourite animal could never go amiss! We also have plenty of dogs and cats.


[The Fox. Plate XXV. (Canis vulpes or Vulpes alopex).]
W. Kuhnert [facsimile inside image.]
[London. Frederick Warne & Co. & New York.] [1912.]
Chromolithograph. Plate 241 x 171mm (9½ x 6¾").
A common red fox. From "Animal Portraiture being Fifty Studies", by Wilhelm Kunhert (text by Richard Lydekker). Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865-1926), the German painter, author and illustrator who specialised in animal images.
[Ref: 30190]   £60.00   (£72.00 incl.VAT)

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