Charles Jones' prints now fetch in the region of £5,000, but can also be enjoyed in book form (secondhand copies can be found). His photographs make the viewer consider ordinary fresh vegetables with a new eye and much greater appreciation. Jones treats them with great respect, as shown here in 'Leeks Prizetaker' (c1900), as do Rachel and Margaret Ryan with their recipe for Savoury Leeks. 

Charle's Jones' photographs make clear that the humble cabbage is a thing of beauty. This is 'Cabbage Imperial' (c1900) which resembles the popular and tasty hispi or conehead cabbage. Florence White devotes a whole page to 'The Right Way to Cook Cabbage', and gives a recipe for classic bubble-and-squeak. 

Fenland celery, often with dark soil attached, is in season now. Like 'Wright's White' (c1900) it is white and tender, so doesn't need the five and a half hours' braising time recommended in Dinners for Beginners, but could be delicious fried according to the recipe in Good Things in England. 

This week: beautiful winter vegetables, with photographs by gardener-turned-photographer Charles Jones (1866-1959), about whom little is known, except that he created a huge body of work which included 'vegetable portraiture', as the Royal Academy terms it. These 'Onions' (c1900) would be perfect roasted in a 'fierce wood fire' or oven and served with butter, as the Vicomte de Mauduit suggests in They Can't Ration These.

It is never too early to start building a library and to have a bookplate of one's own. The Australian artist GD Perrottet (1890-1971) was commissioned to design this for Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II. It was a gift to go with 'Y Bwthyn Bach' or 'The Little House', the child-size (two-fifths scale) whitewashed thatched cottage in the grounds of the Royal Lodge in Windsor which was presented to the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret by the people of Wales on Elizabeth's sixth birthday. 

A very Bloomsbury bookplate. This was designed in 1918 by Dora Carrington (1893-1932) for St John Hutchinson KC (1884-1942) who was married to Mary who had a long affair with Clive Bell who was married to Vanessa Bell (several of whose textile designs we use as endpapers) who was the sister of Virginia Woolf. The witty design features visual puns and jokes in the style of cheaply produced C19 alphabet chapbooks for children.

Gwyneth Lloyd Thomas (1899-1978) taught English at Cheltenham Ladies College and became friends with Charlotte Epton (1902-70), later Bawden, who was teaching Art there. Gwyneth then taught at Girton from 1928 to 1952, and the move to Cambridge brought her near to Charlotte and the Great Bardfield circle with whom she was closely involved (she is mentioned in Long Live Great Bardfield). Indeed, her bookplate was designed by Eric Ravilious, who created this fine woodcut illustration with a rather unusual mix of trees and details.