Wednesday, September 24, 2014

165. The Great War, an Exhibition in Wales

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In 1919, the National Museum Wales (Amgueddfa Cymry) was presented with a set of sixty-six lithographs that had been issued by the Bureau o...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

164. Only A Picture

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Charles Shannon, 'A Portrait of the Artist' (1905): lithograph (Dallas Museum of Art)
Wednesday, September 10, 2014

163. A New Biography of Oscar Wilde's Bibliographer

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Recently a second biographical sketch of Oscar Wilde's bibliographer, Christopher Sclater Millard (also known as Stuart Mason), appeared...
Wednesday, September 3, 2014

162. Ricketts's and Shannon's Collector's Mark

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The art historian Frits Lugt (1884-1970) compiled an overview of collector's marks of public and private art collectors, dealers, and p...
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...