SaltWay CATALOGUE JUL-DEC 24

254 DOORS OF LONDON
LAMBETH & WANDSWORTH
STAINED GLASS 255
228 DOORS OF LONDON
LETTERBOXES 229
ARCHITECTURE
SaltWay
New Titles & Highlights Jul-Dec 2024
Dear friend and bookseller
As always, we have some wonderful new titles to share with
you in this edition of the SaltWay catalogue.
To highlight a few:
London Doors (Sheldrake Press) is a stunningly illustrated
and comprehensive study of the commercial, domestic,
bizarre, well known or hidden and fascinating doorways of
the UK’s capital city. A treasure trove for all who love the
city and aspects of architecture down through the ages.
Much (Koa Press) offers a lavish feast of colour and
surprise celebrating lifestyle.
Premier League 2025 Annuals and Calendars (Grange)
are the official publications of the UK’s Top Clubs (Export
Only).
Great British Elms (Kew) tells the story of this much-loved
native tree, now sadly missing from much of the landscape.
The Classic Heaney Issue (The Irish Pages Press)
celebrates the work of one of our greatest ever poets,
Seamus Heaney.
A reminder to all that SaltWay also represents Flame Tree,
Union Square and IPG UK-distributed lists in international
markets. Each of these major publishers have their own
catalogues which you can download from our website (as
directed below).
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sharing with you the wonderful lists and titles we have the
great pleasure of carrying.
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CONTENTS
3 Architecture
6 Design, Art & Craft
7 Kitchen & Garden
8 Homecraft & Inspiration
10 Grange Annuals - Sport & Gaming
14 Kew Pocket Series
16 Natural History, Botany
18 The Irish Pages Press
20 Baker Street Classics
Retold Classic Literature
Please note: in childrens books text
entries, author is red, illustrator is green
22 Children’s Picture Books
24 Flame Tree Publishing
25 Union Square & Co
IPG USA
26 Publisher Profiles
27 Sales Team details
28 Distributor/ordering details
DOORS OF LONDON
Melanie Backe-Hansen
Walk down any street in London and pause for
a moment. To your left and right is an array of
doors in different styles. Craftsmen across the
centuries have sought to impress you, the passerby,
with elegant designs. Owners have added
a hand-painted flourish here, a Shakespeare
knocker there.
Entranced, the photographer Cath Harries and
house historian Melanie Backe-Hansen have
uncovered 500 public and private doorways
memorable for their hidden histories, grandeur
or quirkiness.
Enjoy a magical mystery tour, discovering grand,
stylish and unusual entrances.
Hardback £25.00
9781873329528
256pp; Illustrations: 500
240 x 170mm; BIC: AMX
Sheldrake Press
Stained Glass
The Victorian Gothic Revival renewed interest
in the use of stained glass. Originally of front doors were often filled with leaded,
processes. By the 1880s, the upper panels
made by melting sand, lime and potash and stained glass in floral or geometric patterns,
coloured by the addition of metal oxides, it admitting light while ensuring privacy. In
could now be mass produced by industrial the 1890s, the sinuous curves of Art Nouveau
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Roupell Street Conservation Area
These Georgian doorways on Whittlesey, houses was laid out in the 1820s by John
Roupell and Theed streets in Waterloo are Roupell, a gold refiner, and its unaltered
typical of the Roupell Street Conservation appearance has made it a popular location
area. This knot of modest two-storey terrace for film and TV shoots.
proved well suited to glass design, while tion, happily it often survives or has been
between the wars, more angular Art Deco restored, casting kaleidoscopic colours into
shapes predominated.
hallways on sunny days, and creating a welcoming
glow at night when illuminated
While many doors have lost their glass to
wartime bombs, burglaries or moderniza-
from within.
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Chris McLaren
Managing Director
SaltWay
www.saltway.co.uk
Our publisher catalogues and more title information can be found
All SaltWay titles are available from Marston
with the exception of SendPoints, available from
Ingram Publisher Services UK; Royal Botanic
Gardens Edinburgh from BookSource, FlameTree
and Mount Orleans Press from Hachette. See
back cover for ordering contact details.
One of Britain’s first purpose-built cinemas,
Brixton’s popular Ritzy Picturehouse opened
its stylish Beaux Arts doors in 1911, when it
was called the Electric Pavilion. The Grade II
listed building was renovated in 2004.
Letterboxes
Today, we are used to these familiar openings
in our front doors, but letterboxes only since payment was required from the recipi-
delivered by a messenger or post boy, and
appeared during the 19 th century and say as ent, they had to be accepted in person.
much about the history of our postal system It was not until 1840 that the introduction
as that of doors. Until then, most letters were of the Penny Black stamp (later replaced
by the Penny Red) for weights up to half an to be fitted. Early models tended to be a dark
ounce and the Twopenny Blue for up to an colour or raw iron (with ‘Letters’ appearing
ounce meant that the sender would pre-pay, across the flap); letterboxes only began to
so letters no longer had to be delivered into be made of gleaming brass (alongside doorknobs
and knockers) later in the the recipient’s hand, and letterboxes began
century.
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Cover illustration from Doors of London, with thanks to
Sheldrake Press (see p3)
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