Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
161. From the Collection of Messrs Ricketts and Shannon
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An advertisement for Old Master Drawings. A Quarterly Magazine for Students and Collectors mentioned that Charles Ricketts was among the co...
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
160. One Hundred Remaindered Copies of The Dial
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In October 1931 Charles Ricketts died, and the mentally ill Shannon had to be cared for. Christie's, auction catalogue, 4 December ...
Wednesday, August 13, 2014
159. A Flow Chart of the Reprint of The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Last week's blog, The Puzzling Reprint of The Picture of Dorian Gray , and its perhaps confusing chronology, asks for a sort of flow c...
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
158. The Puzzling Reprint of Dorian Gray
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Sorting out a pile of books and magazines, I came across the February 2014 issue of Intentions , the news journal of The Oscar Wilde Society...
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
157. Not Rupert Brooke
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In 1915 Ricketts's friend Gordon Bottomley published his play King Lear's Wife in the periodical Georgian Poetry, 1913-1915 . Off...
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
156. A Summer Miscellany of Mistakes (4)
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The comedy of errors that we know as bibliography is played with gusto in auction catalogues. Here we find Vale Press books ascribed to the...
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