Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

96. The Laurence Hodson sale

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Bloomsbury in London offered in auction the collection of books of Laurence W. Hodson  (1863-1933), a wealthy West Midlands brewery owner, c...
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

95. The bookplate for Gleeson White

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The letters of John Gray to Félix Fénéon, which I reviewed last week (blog 94: A French correspondence ), contain an interesting revelation ...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

94. A French correspondence

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The French publisher Du Lérot, éditeur , in Tusson, Charante, has published the letters of Félix Fénéon and John Gray in a small edition of ...
Wednesday, May 8, 2013

93. Did not sleep last night

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During the First World War Charles Ricketts was, as we have seen in blog number 89 ( A costume correspondence ), engaged in charity activiti...
Wednesday, May 1, 2013

92. With the back to the viewer

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A letter from the American artist Edward Gorey to Peter F. Neumeyer in  Floating Worlds (published by Pomegranate in San Francisco, 2011) r...
Wednesday, April 24, 2013

91. Letters to Cecil French

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The Houghton Library acquired a group of letters and postcards by Ricketts and Shannon to Cecil French. The library's blog posted this m...
Wednesday, April 17, 2013

90. Twelve Woodcuts by Lucien Pissarro (again)

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Last year Bassenge Buchauktionen in Berlin-Grunewald offered for sale a portfolio with eleven out of Twelve Woodcuts by Lucien Pissarro . Th...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013

89. A Costume Correspondence

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In a recent issue of Theatre Design & Technology (volume 49, Number 1, winter 2013), Margaret Mitchell published an article on 'A c...
Wednesday, April 3, 2013

88. The Great Worm revisited

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John Gray's story 'The Great Worm' was published in the first number of The Dial , issued by Shannon and Ricketts from their hou...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

87. Nothing

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Indicators of influenza activity across the Netherlands show that influenza is circulating, and as I am now one of its victims, this week...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

86. The Man with a Yellow Glove

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Bonhams in New Bond Street, London , issued a catalogue for their auction of 8 May, when the third part of The Roy Davids Collection of poet...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

85. March 18, 1937

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Seventy-six years ago, on 18 March, 1937, Charles Shannon died. A year later, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co in London devoted an exhibitio...
Wednesday, March 6, 2013

84. A new interpretation of The Great Worm

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Until recently, John Gray's story 'The Great Worm', which was published in the first issue of The Dial in 1889, was not taken s...
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