Wednesday, October 26, 2016

274. Christ Seen From Behind

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Last Saturday, we visited the Fra Bartolomeo  (or Bartolommeo, 1472-1517) exhibition at the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam . Doz...
Wednesday, October 19, 2016

273. A Dedication Copy of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray

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In 1932, Elkin Mathews Ltd., London, published catalogue Forty-Two, Books of the "Nineties" . Included were six books by the Victo...
Wednesday, October 12, 2016

272. A Parable Painted by Charles Ricketts

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In 1945, a painting by Charles Ricketts was  sold at Sotheby's Parke-Bernet Galleries in New York. It was acquired by  The Newark Museum...
Wednesday, October 5, 2016

271: Published: Charles Ricketts's Mysterious Mother

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Charles Ricketts's mother died in Genoa in 1880. She was buried in the English cemetery. A year later, this cemetery was closed to make ...
Wednesday, September 28, 2016

270. Small Exhibition Charles Ricketts 1866-2016

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On the 1st of October, a small themed exhibition will be opened in Museum Meermanno to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Charles Ricketts...
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

269. Invitation and Announcement

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Tuesday, September 13, 2016

268. The 2nd of October

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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...
Wednesday, September 7, 2016

267. A Drawing for Judith

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At the end of this month, Christie's auction includes a drawing by Charles Ricketts, a costume design for Judith . Charles Rickett...
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

266. Romeo & Juliette at Auction

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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...
Wednesday, August 24, 2016

265. A Wilde Book from the Woodring Collection

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The Carl Woodring collection is at the Fondren Library, Rice University, Houston, TX, and contains his excellent collection of Ricketts and ...
Wednesday, August 17, 2016

264. A Commemorative Exhibition of Charles Ricketts

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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...
Wednesday, August 10, 2016

263. Dust-Jackets on Ricketts's books (6): The Pageant

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In November 1895 a first issue of the new magazine The Pageant was published. Apart from a limited edition (large paper format, 150 copi...
Wednesday, August 3, 2016

262. Dust-Jackets on Ricketts's books (5): Poems Dramatic and Lyrical, Second series

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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...
Wednesday, July 27, 2016

261. Dust-Jackets on Ricketts's books (4): Poems Dramatic and Lyrical

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The dust-jackets on books designed by Charles Ricketts come in different styles: plain wrappers, wrappers with spine titles, and printed wra...
Wednesday, July 20, 2016

260. Dust-Jackets on Ricketts's books (3): In the Key of Blue

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In Mark R. Godburn's recently published  Nineteenth-Century Dust-Jackets , examples of dust-jackets in many varieties are given, and the...
Wednesday, July 13, 2016

259. Dust-Jackets on Ricketts's books (2): A House of Pomegranates

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Last week I wrote about the earliest known Ricketts dust-jacket, for The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) . Several copies of the original edit...
Wednesday, July 6, 2016

258. Dust-Jackets on Ricketts's books (1): The Picture of Dorian Gray

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