There are two old clippings attached to the backboard which read "... Town, the exterior of a second-hand bookshop daintily and faithfully rendered, with a little quiet humour, by Mr. B.W. Spiers" and "Mr Spiers sends the two best pieces of nature morte, studies of books, porcelain, old fiddles. He can paint red morocco and Worcester china, with the square mark, ang gets an extraordinary amount of light and air, a wonderful rendering of textures and surfaces in to his paper". A large watercolour of the inside of a collector's room was sold 30 January 1991 at Sotheby's (.35,250)