Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon

A wealthy but lesser-known collector of the Vale Press was Constance Astley. There are few records about her. Incidentally, there are at lea...

Blogpost number 600 is a contribution written by Helen Ritchie, Senior Curator Modern & Contemporary Applied Arts at the Fitzwilliam Mus...

On a personal note, when I started this blog about Ricketts and Shannon, there were two comments I received and both surprised me. The first...

One day in March 1900, Charles Ricketts went to Kew and saw the penguins. The writers 'Michael Field', recalled in their diary notes...

A new research source on Oscar Wilde came online in April last year: 'Oscar Wilde. An Annotated Bibliography of Manuscripts and Their Pr...

In some European countries, such as Belgium and the Netherlands, Ricketts and Shannon's early publications were noted, and sometimes mor...

It may seem at times that Ricketts and Shannon did nothing but work seriously and hard in their studio, or build exhibitions, participate in...

At the beginning of the 20th century, significant works of art came onto the market, partly as a result of taxes that forced new generations...

The bookbinder and antiquarian bookseller Walter James Leighton whose collection I discussed last week is probably not (directly) related t...

Among the renowned Leighton family of bookbinders was Walter James Leighton  (1850-1917), a bookseller and bookbinder, who came to work for ...

This week's blog is written by John Aplin, who, with a little help from me, is editing Charles Ricketts's letters for publication. I...