Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon

Yet another auction with Ricketts and Shannon material is about to take place at Bloomsbury in London . Tomorrow, 28 November, 45 autograph ...

Bloomsbury in London has another auction next week, on 28 November. In it are some leftovers from the successfull Hodson sale. Last week uns...

Dreweatts and Bloomsbury auctions have a 'bibliophile sale' tomorrow (14 November) at their Godalming site. In it are some leftover...

A few years ago Dennis Denisoff and Lorraine Janzen Kooistra launched The Yellow Nineties Online . It is a surprise to find that Ricketts an...

Auctioned, yesterday, at Christie's in New York , were two Ricketts and Shannon related items from the collection of Arthur & Charlo...

Most texts that were issued by private press publishers during the 1890s and 1900s were written long ago and needed no copyright protection,...

Recent book historical research has come up with new tools that can be of use to researchers in many other fields. A fine example of this is...

A dedication copy of a book about Charles Shannon can be seen on YouTube. The book is inscribed by the artist to the Princess of Monaco, ...

On 2 October 1866 Charles Ricketts was born in Geneva. On his 34th birthday, in 1900, he wrote in his diary: We are about to offer a hundr...

There are painted portraits and photographs of Charles Ricketts, but some moving images of him have been preserved as well. In 1926, Rickett...

Last week , I wrote about the collector Laurence Hodson , whose impressive collection was sold earlier this year.  After the closure of th...

Not much is known about contemporary collectors of Vale Press books. A large collection was owned by the architect and surveyor John Morgan ...

The firm of Abbott and Holder will exhibit some twentieth century watercolours and drawings at their premises in London's Museum Street...

On my return from Philadelphia, last July, I was pleased to see a parcel from Oxford University Press with a copy of volume V of  The Comple...

While I was in Philadelphia, I visited the Rosenbach Museum and Library , where an astonishing collection of books is being preserved in the...

This week I was asked how the books at the Vale Press were printed, as there seemed to be no consensus about it. Since the press started in ...