Publications
 

Evelyn Joll

The Gallery has been collecting British watercolours since 1951. In past fifty years it has acquired some six hundred of the best known images and examples by leading artists from the late 16th century to the present.
Fully illustrated in colour and produced in hardback, this superb catalogue is an indispensable guide to the gallery's collection.

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Bedford through Artist's Eyes.

This comprehensive volume contains fifty-four views of the streets, buildings and other features of Bedford town, some now lost, some changed, some still surviving. Along with works from the Cecil Higgins Collection there are details about place, period and artist and recent photographs of the subjects as they are today.
Includes 26 colour and 81 black and white illustrations.

The Cecil Higgins Gallery Guide is a 64 page colour guide to the gallery including a tour of the mansion and information and photographs of the collections including drawings and watercolours, glass, ceramics and jewellery.

Price £3.50

One of the items in the Thomas Lester collection is a folder of card lace patterns with what seems to be the first attempts at designing Bedfordshire lace corners in the more naturalistic floral mode fashionable at the time.
This new publication with over thirty pages has the ones that have been redrawn for contemporary lace makers, together with some motifs extracted, to tempt busy students.

Price £6.95

A fifty page catalogue of the Thomas Lester Lace Collection given to the gallery in 1947 by his granddaughter Amy Lester.

Price £9.95

Booklet containing 20 designs for use either to redraw for a more modern shape or to use parts of the longer ones in new designs.

Price £5

Booklet containing 52 designs.

Price £5

Design from the William Morris Fire Screen. The kit contains everything necessary to sew the design in cross stitch. No experience is needed as full instructions are included. Design size approx. 5 1/2 inches square.

Price £6.95