Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

27. Patterned papers (c: The ship)

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For the cover of Fifty songs by Thomas Campion , published February 1897, Charles Ricketts designed a decorated paper that, in his bibliogr...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012

26. Universal Disdain

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Julian Corbett's story 'Jezebel' in The   U niversal Review of 15 August 1889 was illustrated by Ricketts and Shannon, who divi...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012

25. Contact addresses

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Ricketts lived and worked in London on several addresses: 1882-1887: 164 Kennington Park Road, Kennington, S.E [ Shannon joined Ricketts...
Wednesday, January 4, 2012

24. Why Shannon?

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The title of this blog has been changed from 'Charles Ricketts' to 'Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon' - it goes wit...
Wednesday, December 28, 2011

23. At the sign of the red lion

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On 4 April 1887, the Prince of Wales and his wife attended the private view of the sixty-fourth annual exhibition of the Society of British ...
Wednesday, December 21, 2011

22. Ч. Рикетс in Russian

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Т.Ф. Верижникова, 'Из истории английской книжной графики рубежа 19-20 веков: иллюстрации Ч. Рикетса и Ч. Шенона к "Дафнису и Хлое...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011

21. Patterned papers (b: The Suckling rose)

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The first book bound in a patterned paper designed by Ricketts was published by the Vale Press in the Spring of 1896. The Saturday Review (...
Wednesday, December 7, 2011

20. A house in Geneva

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A conference on book exhibitions in Lausanne brought me to Geneva, where Charles Ricketts was born on 2 October 1866. I had a few hours bef...
Wednesday, November 30, 2011

19. The Carl Woodring collection

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Nature into Literature (1989) by Carl Woodring (1919-2009) devoted several pages to Charles Ricketts in a chapter on the 'Aesthetes'...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011

18. Patterned papers (a: Mouse and nut)

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Almost thirty years ago, I was introduced to the work of Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon by Ton Leenhouts, who collected illustrated bo...
Wednesday, November 16, 2011

17. An Unpublished Symposium

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For the Vale Press Ricketts projected quite a few publications that never saw the light of day, one of which was an edition of Plato's S...
Wednesday, November 9, 2011

16. Head in obsidian

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The art collection of Charles Ricketts and his partner Charles Shannon contained more than a thousand items, including paintings, Egyptian, ...
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