Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon

On the 1st of October, a small themed exhibition will be opened in Museum Meermanno to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Charles Ricketts...

The date of 2 October is drawing near: Birthday of King Richard III, of England (1452), Isabella of Naples, Duchess of Milan (1470), Saint C...

At the end of this month, Christie's auction includes a drawing by Charles Ricketts, a costume design for Judith . Charles Rickett...

Online auctions have taken their place in the antiquarian book market for some years now, and one of the more successful auction places is C...

The Carl Woodring collection is at the Fondren Library, Rice University, Houston, TX, and contains his excellent collection of Ricketts and ...

As I announced in May ( blog 250 ), we will publish a small book about Ricketts's mother written by J.G.P. Delaney and Corine Verney: C...

In November 1895 a first issue of the new magazine The Pageant was published. Apart from a limited edition (large paper format, 150 copi...

In last week's blog a copy of Lord de Tabley's Poems Dramatic and Lyrical (1893) and its dust-jacket were shown. De Tabley's bo...

The dust-jackets on books designed by Charles Ricketts come in different styles: plain wrappers, wrappers with spine titles, and printed wra...

In Mark R. Godburn's recently published  Nineteenth-Century Dust-Jackets , examples of dust-jackets in many varieties are given, and the...

Last week I wrote about the earliest known Ricketts dust-jacket, for The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) . Several copies of the original edit...

Recently, the Private Libraries Association and Oak Knoll Press published Nineteenth-Century Dust-Jackets by Mark R. Godburn, an American b...

The Brexit votes in Great Britain have won: 52% of the population voted for leaving the European Union; 48% voted for remaining, but lost. ...

Last week, I described an advance proof for Hamlet  dating from 1899 - the book was published in 1900. It displayed several deviations from ...