Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon

Late 1892, in an undated letter, the poet and prose writer Ernest Dowson (1867-1900) wrote to his former fellow student at Oxford, Charles S...

Harry Quilter (1851-1907), whose work was ridiculed by both James McNeill Whistler and Oscar Wilde, gave Shannon and Ricketts the opportunit...

Jeremy Mason's Oscar Wilde collection, sold at Bonhams on 18 February, fetched both expected and unexpected high prices. Letters from Wi...

In a musical contest between Apollo and Marsyas, it was the latter who lost and was subsequently flayed alive by Apollo. Such mythological s...

Only a handful of authors and artists created the contributions for the first issue of the magazine The Dial, issued by Shannon and Ricketts...

The critic John Russell Taylor - whose groundbreaking study, The Art Nouveau Book in Britain (1966) contains an important chapter on Ricke...

Last week's blog about a supposed trial copy of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray lingered in my mind, as if there was still...

In February 2021, Bonhams in London hosted an exhibition of books from the collection of Jeremy Mason, marking the 120th anniversary of the ...

In addition to paintings, lithographs and a few etchings, Charles Shannon produced a series of twelve chiaroscuro woodcuts,  which are somet...

While clearing out last year's clippings, notes and emails, I came across a review of the novel Pijpelijntjes by Dutch author Jacob Isr...

At the beginning of 1928, Charles Ricketts wrote a note to Sydney Cockerell to thank him for bringing home a quotation. He then began to lis...

Towards the end of the year, it seems, Charles Ricketts often looked back on the months behind him with disappointment and disapproval. When...

Merlin Holland's new book about his grandfather's legacy, After Oscar. The Legacy of a Scandal ( Europa Editions ) does contain one ...

The Canadian auction house Waddington's in Toronto will soon be selling an item by Charles Shannon that is described in the catalogue as...

On 31 October I received my copies of Salome's Bookshelf. Artists and Writers of the 1890s , edited by Simon Alexander Reynolds, a Shake...

Blog 743 (29 October) contained a list of presentation copies of An Ideal Husband . It was incomplete, as could be expected: Oscar Wilde had...