Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon

On 6 December 1889, the Publishers' Circular contained an advertisement of Cassell & Company, Limited, for The Rivers of Great Brit...

'The Cult of Beauty', an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum earlier in the year, has crossed the Channel and in an attempt...

Designers of exhibition catalogues on Art Nouveau and programs for conferences about the Arts and Crafts movement seem unable to resist the ...

In August, Peter Harrington's catalogue 78 offered for sale a copy of The Legion Book and only one month later the same copy turned up ...

This week's blog is a contribution by Paul Delaney. We met in 1986, when he lived in London and I well remember the study where he was t...

The University of Antwerp is organizing the conference  Book Design from the Middle Ages to the Future  on Thursday 29 and Friday 30 Septemb...

The University of Groningen is organizing a conference on the transfer and integration of English culture in the Netherlands and Belgium aro...

In the decade that Ricketts published his studies  The Prado and its Masterpieces (1903), Titian (1910) and Pages on Art (1913), it was ...

Before Charles Ricketts designed  a few (complete and incomplete) series of initials for the Vale Press editions (1896-1904), he not only ha...

In Oscar Wilde. Recollections by Jean Paul Raymond Charles Ricketts wrote about himself as 'an elderly Englishman who, years ago, had k...

Volume V of The Oxford History of the Irish Book , edited by Clare Hutton and Patrick Walsh, appeared earlier this year. For this volume, Th...

The online journal Victorian Network  (Summer 2011) has published an essay by Jeremiah Mercurio (University of St. Andrews) on two unpublish...

The history of the private press movement in the Netherlands (1910-2010) was recently the subject of an exhibition and a book. There is also...

A new edition of Ricketts's Recollections of Oscar Wilde is for sale in the shop of the Victoria and Albert Museum during the exhibitio...

Charles Ricketts, the artist, critic, writer and collector (1866-1931), has never reached the fame of his contemporary Aubrey Beardsley. How...