Ravilious (Eric).- Beautiful Britain. Country Life Calendar 1939, photographic illustrations, colour lithograph upper cover by Eric Ravilious, ring bound at head with metal hanger, a little spotted and soiled, c.320 x 280mm., Country Life, [1938] § Gleadowe (R.M.Y.) British Art: Six Broadcast Talks, original boards with wood-engraving on upper cover by Eric Ravilious, lower cover lightly spotted and soiled, slightly rubbed at edges, printed by the Kynoch Press for the BBC, 1934 § Christmas Book Shop (The): The Year's Best Books, 8pp., printed in yellow and black, illustrations by Ravilious and Edward Bawden, light spotting and faint staining, staples rusted, [1924] § Trade card for Dunbar Hay Ltd., lithograph printed in two colours from wood-engraving by Ravilious, [Greenwood G.382, 2 copies in the Towner Collection, Eastbourne], c.200 x 200mm., [1938]; and Rare Books Catalogue 149 for Dulau and Company Ltd. with a frontispiece by Ravilious, and a copy of the second item in original pictorial wrappers, v.s. (6)

⁂ A selection of Ravilious's commercial work. The title in the hardback copies of the second item uses the letters of the Ravilious alphabet designed for the Kynoch Press. The third item was an advertising insert for the December 1924 edition of The Studio. It is one of both Ravilious's and Bawden's earliest published designs, executed while they were still students at the Royal College of Art.

Dunbar Hay Ltd. was a shop founded in 1936 to unite young designers and industry by Cecilia Dunbar Kilburn who had been a contemporary at the Royal College of Art with Ravilious. She encouraged him to design ceramics for Wedgwood, glass for Stuart Crystal, furniture and fabrics which the shop then stocked. It closed in 1940 when the shop was destroyed by bombing in the Second World War.