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Last Post for Xmas! Greetings from the Marmalade Cat, who says that last post for any books and printed ephemera from Design For Today will be on Wednesday evening to guarantee delivery before Xmas, so any orders please by 5pm on Wed, as my sub PO is open until 8pm. I’ll be dispatching via First Class Post. #lastpost #orlando #kathleenhale #themarmaladecat https://www.instagram.com/p/BrhXXs0AUmW/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=8cciajjpnrf7

Cat’s Cradle Kathleen Hale Games for a wet camping holiday, ‘don’t touch the inside of the tent’ taken from her first Orlando title, A Camping Holiday, a large folio for Country Life published in 1938 by Noel Carrington after it had been rejected by every other publisher. #orlando #themarmaladecat #kathleenhale #acampingholiday #catscradle #lithograph #noelcarrington #cowellsipswich

Fish supper Kathleen Hale Orlando dines out from the 1941 Puffin Picture Book, Orlando's Home Life. It sold out so fast that Hale wrote to Carrington complaining that she couldn't find copies to sent to friends. Bookshops had to be rationed by Penguin, so great was the demand for inexpensive quality books in colour for wartime children. #orlando #themarmaladecat #kathleenhale #autolithography #fish

Orlando the marmalade cat World Cat Day. When it comes to cats, it's Orlando! Kathleen Hale's wonderful creation and enjoyed here in a rare 1940s Danish edition of the Puffin Picture Book, Orlando's Home Life. #Orlando #kathleenhale #worldcatday #themarmaladecat

The purrfect couple? Orlando & Grace. Kathleen Hale's wonderful creation now almost 80 years old. Initially rejected by publisher after publisher until Noel Carrington snapped it up for Country Life and then took Hale to Puffin and continued to publish her work for the remainder of his career across Royles, Transatlantic Arts and John Murrays. #kathleenhale #noelcarrington #orlando #themarmaladecat

Suddenly a huge black tom-cat stood in their path Kathleen Hale. Wartime litho from her folio, Orlando, His Silver Wedding, lithographed at Cowells in 1944. #kathleenhale #cowells #orlando #lithography #themarmaladecat

Purrfect Xmas Card Kathleen Hale's wonderful creation, Orlando, getting into the Christmas mood. Royle Greetings Card c1948, commissioned by Noel Carrington. #orlando #themarmaladecat #illustration #design #greetingsbards #christmascard