Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon

The Vale Press was the first private press to dispose of its type by throwing the punches into the River Thames, an example that was followe...

In 1996 an exhibition in the Museum Meermanno in The Hague commemorated  the foundation of The Vale Press in 1896. During preparations it ca...

The Vale Press programme of early English text editions included The sonnets of Sir Philip Sidney , which had been in preparation since 1896...

The library of Jacques Levy, which was on sale at Sotheby's, New York, on 20 April, had some surprises in store for us. The special copy...

This blog is an addendum to blog 39 and has been contributed by Barbara Pezzini: List of articles by Charles Ricketts in The Burlington m...

This week's contribution to the blog has been written by Barbara Pezzini, index editor of The Burlington magazine . Charles Ricketts a...

The poet Gordon Bottomley (1874-1948) admired Ricketts and Shannon and collected their works, which he donated to the Tullie House Museum ...

Literature , in its 30 October 1897 issue, listed as a recent publication a new edition of the Vale Press: Henry Constable's Poems and s...

Some private collectors are open about their purchases, others not. Some have lended their most exclusive books for exhibitions, others keep...

Earlier this month, Paul Rassam sent us a pre-publication copy of his new catalogue 25: Late 19th & 20th century literature . Number 12...

On 18 March, 1937 - 75 years ago - Charles Shannon died. Next week, an exhibition on printmaking 1893-1895 will include a lithograph by Shan...

Ricketts published four plays by 'Michael Field' (his friends Edith Cooper and Katharine Bradley), the first of which was  Fair Rosa...

Thomas Sturge Moore wrote about his friend Charles Shannon in a catalogue for P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., who in their Bond Street premi...