History & Art
Gifts
Sheldrake Press aim to provide you with original, well-produced books which look good, read well, inform and entertain. Please have a look around. You will find history, architecture, interior design, travel, cookery and gift stationery – all imbued with a passionate commitment to offer something useful and at times, we hope, inspiring.
Simon Rigge, Publisher & Senior Editor.
Recent News…
A Designer’s Eye
It takes a designer’s eye to spot what the rest of us miss. Ian Logan, a prolific designer who has worked with big-name brands such as Harrods and Fortnum & Mason, traces his keen eye for aesthetics back to childhood. In an interview marking five years since the publication of his book Logomotive, he opens a window into his visual world.
From the Blog…
Lounge in a Literary Workshop
Walk up to the top floor at 17 Gough Square, London, EC4 and you find yourself in a literary workshop. Here, seated at a modest drop-leaf table, Samuel Johnson wrote A Dictionary of the English Language, with his six assistants toiling at adjoining desks. Sit yourself down and you’re soon back with them in 1750.