Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon

The catalogue for sale 2289 of the New York based Swann Auction Galleries describes a complete set of the Vale Shakespeare, which will be au...

The artist Alphonse Legros, born in Dijon in 1837, came to England in 1863, after he studied art in Dijon and Paris. In 1864, he married Fra...

The principal bedroom in the Keep (Chilham Castle, Kent) - Ricketts's and Shannon's country retreat in the nineteen-twenties - feat...

An Italian translation of Oscar Wilde's A house of pomegranates was published in 1980 by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore in Milan, together w...

One of the most fascinating but elusive characters of the 1890s is Gleeson White, who frequently referred to the work of Ricketts and Shanno...

Stephan Tschudi Madsen's phrase about 'Charles Ricketts and his pupil Robert Shannon' (see my comments in no. 55 ) was repeated ...

My summer series of curious errors continues today. In Simon Loxley's Type. The secret history of letters (2004) I came across a passa...

Now and then, one comes across a paragraph on Ricketts and Shannon in books about art and literature of a general kind, containing curious e...

The July 2012 issue of the Journal of British studies (available through JSTOR) features an essay by Matt Cook, senior lecturer in history ...

On Saturday 5 February 1898 a private view at the Dutch Gallery in London introduced the guests to medals, plaques, seals, and some drawings...

My recent visit to Dublin (see Ireland where I have never been and A prize binding ) brought me to Parnell Square, where the Dublin Writers...

This is an anniversary blog, commemorating the first post to my weblog, almost a year ago, when on 20 July 2011 I decided it was time to wri...

The only patterned paper for a Vale Press book that was not designed by Charles Ricketts is the one that can be found on the cover of  De la...

On my visit to Dublin (see last week's blog ) I took the opportunity to inspect the stock of several antiquarian bookshops, most of whic...

I am in Dublin to present a paper at the annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing ( SHARP ), a...

Rythmus , a yearbook for the study of the fin de siècle, was published earlier this month. It contains twelve essays about English art and l...