Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon

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...

Copy no. 216 of Silverpoints  from the collection of Barry Humphries had previously been sold by James Cummins in 1999 and owned by William ...

Once a book has been published, most copies lead a hidden life. Every now and then, they resurface when a collector manages to acquire a bet...

In her dissertation, Mariko Hirabayashi shed light on the friendship between Noguchi Yonejiro and Charles Ricketts - see also her Ricketts b...

Presentation copies of the plays, poems and stories of Oscar Wilde now command prices that may surprise those who are not book lovers or die...

Walter Martin Hill from Chicago regularly issued catalogues of books for sale. In his eleventh catalogue from December 1903, he assured the ...