And another previously unseen drawing by Tirzah – it’s pen and ink and is called Penny for the Guy. Btw, we sell The Dog Show as a postcard in the shop. (The Persephone Post is on holiday next week and the one after. Of course the shop is open.)

At the end of the scrapbook there are some designs by Tirzah Garwood. This is an undated design for a wood engraving called Street Games.

The traditional symbols for the twelve signs of the Zodiac: the cover of an Almanack  designed for the Lanston Montype Corporation.

Two colour ways for the sinuous double loop pattern designed by Ravilious and printed by the Curwen Press for an Austin Reed 1930s promotional booklet.

Eric Ravilious Scrapbooks is a beautiful book which we sell in the shop (it’s horribly expensive though, £40, but £35 with our £5-off sticker). Every page is fascinating and this week on the Post five random examples. First a 1932 woodblock. ‘The colour effect was achieved by rolling red ink on the top of the block and black on the bottom so the colours mingled’ (p. 71).

And, to conclude, a characteristic view. If you are visiting Bath it is so worth visiting the allotments. From the Royal Crescent you go across to the road on the west which is Marlborough Buildings. Walk up to the Marlborough Tavern (very nice pub with good food), turn left and go along about fifty metres. There is a little gate in the railings which is always open and here you can go in and walk across the allotments to the other end of Marlborough Buildings and thus back to the Royal Crescent.

Another view, with Marlborough Buildings as the backcloth. One of the reasons these allotments are so beautiful is that they are framed by the early nineteenth century typical Bath houses on the one side and a nicely mown path on the other.