powerful and beautiful". His other commercial activities involved designing advertisements for Cadbury's, Pears Soap, Dewar's and Selfridges etc. He also produced artwork for numerous calendars. Nelson was the Secretary of the Art Workers Guild for a number of years and several examples of his work and a pencil portrait of Nelson by the artist Ester Borough Johnson (fl. 1896–1940) can still be seen at its headquarters in Queens Square, London. There, Nelson (and his wife Margaret) became friends with Charles Robert Ashbee, the designer, author and entrepreneur who was influential in the English Arts and Crafts movement. After Nelson's death, his wife Margaret took over the duties as secretary of the Guild. Nelson was also a member of the Society of Graphic Art (SGA). He died suddenly in 1948, aged 77, in Regent Street, London - leaving a widow and a daughter, Winifrede. Works Harold Nelson illustrated the following works: La Motte Fouque. Undine and Aslauga's Knight (George Newnes Ltd., London, 1901). Carmen Sylva. A Real Queen's Fairy Tales (Davis and Company, Chicago, 1901). Harold Nelson. Harold Nelson: his book of book-plates consisting of 24 original designs. (Edinburgh, Otto Schulze & Company, 1904). Harold Nelson. Reproductions of twenty-five designs for book plates.(Otto Schulze & Co., 1910). Harold Nelson. Bookplates by Harold Nelson (B.T. Batsford, Ltd. 1929). Harold Nelson. The noble birth and gallant achievements of that remarkable outlaw Robin Hood : together with a true account of the many merry & extravagant exploits he play'd, in twelve several stories, newly collected into one volume by an ingenious antiquvary. (O Schulze & company, 1906). Harold Nelson. Three Famous English Romances (Otto Schulz & Co., 1913) William J. Thoms. The Gallant Atchievements of Robin Hood; The Famous History of Friar Bacon; The Romance of Robert The Devill (Otto Schulze and Co., 1910). William J. Thoms. Early English Prose Romances (Schulze & Co., 1904) Wiggin, Kate Douglas & Smith, Nora Archibald (eds). The Talking Beasts : A Book of Fable Wisdom (Doubleday Page & Co., 1911). Various, The British Girl's Annual 1917 (Cassell, 1916). Various. The Bookplate Magazine - Nos 1, 2, 3 & 5. (The Morland Press, 1919–1920). James Guthrie (Editor). The Bookplate. Being no.3 of the Journal of The English Bookplate Society (The Pear Tree Press, 1921). Alfred Fowler, (Editor). The Bookplate Annual for 1922 & 1923. (self-published 1922 & 1923). White, Gleeson. Modern Bookplates and their Designers. (The Studio, Special