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“I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows.”
—A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare’s Flowers: 1,000-Piece Puzzle
Roses, lilies, violets, and marigolds are among the fifty flowers, all featured in the works of William Shakespeare, that wind around this beautiful circular jigsaw puzzle. Shakespeare grew up in the English countryside and filled his works with references to flowers, plants, animals, and insects. Memorable quotations from the poems and plays are featured throughout the intricate design on the puzzle.
Each puzzle also includes an eleven-page guide to the flowers of the Bard, which lists the quotations from the plays and poems that mention each flower. Thoughtfully designed, the box is free of plastic wrapping.
Shakespeare’s Birds: 1,000-Piece Puzzle
The Bard knew his birds, and frequently referred to them in his works: sixty-four species are mentioned on 606 occasions across his poems and plays. Created by Rebecca Harris, this intricate circular puzzle celebrates the birds found throughout the works of William Shakespeare. Each box also includes a twelve-page guide to the birds of the Bard, which lays out the quotations from the plays and poems that mention each bird.
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The Shakespeare Game
Winner of the 2022 Independent Toy Awards Board Game Category, the Shakespeare Game is a labor of love and scholarship. The illustrations, text, game, and design have been carefully researched, and the consultants have impeccable credentials. The booklet that is enclosed with the game is beautifully conceived, produced, written, and illustrated. The booklet also includes descriptions of location histories, themes, and plays.
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Shakespeare’s Britain: 1,000-Piece Puzzle
The beautiful image on this 1,000-piece puzzle is a pictorial map of Britain as it was in 1583, with the geographical settings of Shakespeare’s history plays labeled. The map is decorated with symbols and icons of towns and abbeys, castles, battlefields, forests, and heaths, and includes a panoramic inset of London showing the Globe Theatre, and another inset of Stratford-upon-Avon.
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Shakespeare Playing Cards
Play your favorite card games with Romeo and Juliet as King and Queen of Hearts, Lady Macbeth as the Ace of Spades, Ariel as the Joker, and more. This artist-illustrated deck of playing cards features fifty-four of Shakespeare’s most famous characters, arranged in four suits: hearts = lovers; clubs = fools; diamonds = heroes and heroines; and spades = villains. The deck includes a booklet with text about each character and their place in literary history.
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William Blake’s Shakespeare Playing Cards
“Shakespeare, in riper years, gave me his hand...”—William Blake
This elegant set of playing cards features some of William Blake’s most beautiful illustrations of Shakespeare’s subjects. Blake, a visionary painter and poet of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century England, was inspired by characters from some of Shakespeare's most famous works. Blake’s breathtaking watercolors have become synonymous with the Shakespeare plays they depict.
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William Blake Tarot Deck
The William Blake Tarot of the Creative Imagination is a collaged, full-color deck illustrated with the visionary art of William Blake. Although Blake lived 250 years ago, his spiritual art and ideas remain relevant. This seventy-nine card deck presents Blake’s central thesis that human creative imagination is the divine aspect of mankind. This tarot deck, radical yet classical, offers a powerful tool for stimulating creativity and a unique way to learn more about Blake and his spiritually revolutionary ideas.
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Instead of a Card: Ten Sonnets by William Shakespeare
“Ten Sonnets by William Shakespeare” is a title in the “Instead of a Card” series, based on the idea that sending a greeting card is a lovely gesture, and sending a booklet of poetry an even more meaningful one. To read Shakespeare’s sonnets is to be immersed in beauty. Although this pamphlet can only offer a sample (there are 154 sonnets altogether), each sonnet nonetheless stands on its own, full square in its fourteen lines, a small miracle.
“So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”
—Sonnet XVIII
Each pamphlet is gorgeous both inside and out, beautifully produced with a cardstock cover, Ex Libris bookplate, and a bookmark gift enclosure, with space for an inscription to the recipient.
Create-Your-Own Fairy Door
Welcome Puck, Oberon, Titania, and more with your own magical miniature fairy door. Perfect for a party favor or stocking stuffer, this simple and eco-friendly kit is made from one piece of recycled cardboard. Pop out the pieces and make your own double-sided fairy door to attach to your baseboard, shoebox, or any space that could use a touch of whimsy. Create a secret place with a garden and flowers, and add a letter to the tiny mail box.
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Flower Friends Headbands Kit
A perfect activity for a child’s birthday party or a rainy day, this kit allows you to create gorgeous animal ear headbands, adorned with flowers and plants. The animal ears are made from flexible self-adhesive felt and, once decorated, can be easily stuck on to the ribbon headbands, which fit all head sizes. The kit makes three headbands and comes with step-by-step instructions.
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The Tempest Bee Tea Towel
This charming tea towel, part of a line launched at the RHS Chelsea (The Royal Horticulture Society Chelsea Flower Show) in 2024, features an extract from one of Ariel’s songs in William Shakespeare’s The Tempest:
“Where the bee sucks, there suck I:
In a cowslip’s bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bat’s back I do fly
After summer merrily.
Merrily, merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.”
“I Wish You All the Joy” Silver Shakespeare Bracelet
This stylish silver cuff bracelet is etched with this succinct blessing from Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice: “I wish you all the joy that you can wish.” “Shakespeare” is engraved on the inside of the cuff. The beauty of Shakespeare’s language is echoed here in the simple elegance of the bracelet. This timeless piece is a perfect gift for lovers of the Bard; for anyone celebrating a birthday, graduation, holiday; or for just showing you care.
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Shakespeare Sonnet 116
Möbius Bracelet
Several lines from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 are engraved on this sterling silver möbius bracelet: “Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove. O no! It is an ever-fixed mark, that looks on tempests and is never shaken; it is the star to every wand’ring bark, whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.”
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Monet Tulips Silk Chiffon Scarf
The design of this beautiful silk chiffon scarf is inspired by the 1885 painting A Vase of Tulips by French impressionist Claude Monet. While Monet is perhaps best known for painting en plain air (outdoors), he also painted simple still lifes. These works often depict lush, blooming arrangements with a characteristic style that focuses more on the overall atmosphere and sensory experience rather than precise details.
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Paint-by-Numbers Museum Series Kits
The Museum Series of paint-by-numbers kits feature masterpieces by Monet and Van Gogh. The kits have detailed instructions, as well as a link to an online tutorial, to teach burgeoning artists ages eight and older. Whether you’re hoping to improve your brush technique or just looking for a relaxing activity to get away from screens, these kits offer opportunities for self expression, contemplation, and joy.
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Monet Socks Gift Sets
These gift sets from Bonne Maison, inspired by the home and gardens of Claude Monet at Giverny, were created in collaboration with the Academy of Fine Arts, Paris. Each set features two pairs of premium socks packaged in a beautiful booklet with a grosgrain ivory tie closure. The socks are crafted from luxurious Egyptian cotton with elastane reinforcement and manufactured in France.
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Liberty London
Notecard Assortment:
Volumes 1 and 2
“Liberty is the chosen resort of the artistic shopper.”—Oscar Wilde
Liberty London, founded in 1875 as an “emporium laden with luxuries and fabrics from distant lands,” is indeed a resort—a haven of sophisticated design, an island of quality, known for both tradition and innovation. These notecard sets each feature eight of Liberty’s heritage floral prints, drawn from across the store’s vast archive of iconic designs.
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Liberty London Gift Labels
This tin of gift labels features the beautiful floral prints for which Liberty is known and loved. Beautiful, evergreen, and all-purpose, these seventy-two labels feature twelve distinct and uniquely shaped designs. The labels are packaged in a charming tin, which can easily be reused. The set includes seventy-two gift labels, featuring twelve unique label designs (six of each design). These labels elevate any gift from the ordinary to the exquisite, and also pair beautifully with our Liberty London notecards.
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Shakespeare Characters Mug
This heirloom-quality bone china mug is decorated with humorous illustrations depicting more than forty central characters from fourteen of Shakespeare’s major plays. Each time you pick up these mugs, you’ll find more to look at in the wonderfully detailed illustrations: swords and daggers; masks and cauldrons; snakes, fairies, and phantoms; and much more.
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Flower Press Kit
Our flower press kits have all the components needed to press flowers, which can be used to create artwork, make stationery, decorate journals, and add natural beauty to many other projects. The presses are made of natural wood and have beautiful designs etched into them. The presses can also be used as a lovely decor piece for a tabletop, counter, or desk.
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John Derian Wrapping Paper Books
Turn every gift into a work of art with these curated collections of wrapping paper sheets and matching gift tags from John Derian’s exquisite collection of nineteenth-century paper designs. Each book includes twelve perforated wrapping paper sheets—designed with flowers, oceans, and everything in between—that detach and unfold to large sheets, along with twelve matching gift tags.
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Vintage Italian Travel Poster Wrapping Paper
Printed with a design that incorporates vintage travel posters advertising famous Italian towns and cities, this all-occasion gift wrap is acid-free and therefore also suitable for bookbinding, scrapbooking, and other creative projects. The evocative posters, saturated colors, and gorgeous typefaces make an impressive presentation. The company who makes this paper maintains its roots in the heart of Tuscany, the centuries-old cradle of the noblest paper manufacturing traditions. Imported from Italy.
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Midsummer Onesie in Hot Pink
“And though she be but little, she is fierce” is a much-loved quote from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The quote is written across the front of this soft, 100% cotton onesie. “William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is printed beneath the quote. The onesie is machine washable and packaged in a box for easy gifting.
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Pure Cotton Correspondence Pad and Envelopes
This stationery is as essential and elegant as an impeccably tailored white shirt. Pure Cotton is a paper made without any chemicals. Creamy white, with a soft woven finish and a watermark; ideal for writing with a fountain pen, a rollerball, or a ballpoint. The envelopes are lined with white tissue.
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A polite exhortation, “silence please,” appears beneath the English Gothic arch at the entrance to the Bodleian Old Library. Another appears in the library’s fifteenth-century courtyard. In fact, these signs are presented at every entrance to the Bodleian, one of Europe’s oldest libraries and the main research library at the University of Oxford. A reminder of the sanctity of scholarship and the quiet passion of booklovers, this bone china mug is an ode to one of the world’s most famous temples of literature. This mug makes the perfect desk accessory for the Anglophile or gift for those seeking to bring home the tranquility of an Oxford library. Made in Staffordshire exclusively for the Bodleian Libraries.
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Bodleian Libraries
Silk Chiffon Scarf
This beautifully made silk chiffon scarf features an artful montage of Victorian and Edwardian books with enchanting period titles, collated by the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford. The spines, covers, and typefaces of these vintage books are delightful period pieces, as are the titles: The Girl Who Lost Things, Queen of the Dormitory, The Madcap of the School, The Worst Girl in the School, A Girl of Distinction, A Ripping Girl, A Girl of High Adventure, No Ordinary Girl, The Lady of the Hundred Dresses, and more.
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Rainbow Fountain Pens
for Every Day
Color coding is an old-school method that’s a proven way to increase productivity. Colors help organize and prioritize a to-do list—one quick glance tells what task belongs to what category (work, family, appointments, exercise, travel plans, finance, home projects, etc.) and what needs to be done sooner rather than later.
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Shakespeare Cocktail Napkins
These quotes from four of Shakespeare’s plays, printed on a set of cocktail napkins, capture the conviviality of eating and drinking. General joy, great welcome: these words of generous hospitality are perfect for any gathering, large or small. Choose between packs of twenty-four, with six each of four quotes, and packs of 100, with twenty-five each of four quotes.
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The New York Review of Books
Hunter Green Tote
Show your love of great writing with this handsome market tote, featuring an original drawing of the facade of the New York Review of Books building. Previously the studio of Milton Glaser and the offices where New York and Ms. magazines were founded, this Beaux Arts townhouse has been the home of the Review since 2023. If you look carefully on the bag, you can see the line Glaser had engraved in the transom above the front door: “Art is Work.”
The bag is hunter green with a bright yellow font and a white illustration. Made in the USA.
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