Wednesday, June 27, 2018

361. A Portrait of Thomas Sturge Moore

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Artist's friends are most likely to be portrayed by an artist, perhaps even more than relatives, certainly when the artist and the sitte...
Wednesday, June 20, 2018

360. Ricketts's Design of Oscar Wilde's Poems (1892) (7)

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The British Library blogpost 'Poems by Oscar Wilde' contains, among others, an image of the page facing the title page, and in the ...
Wednesday, June 13, 2018

359. Ricketts's Design of Oscar Wilde's Poems (1892) (6)

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Summer. Sitting in the garden. Browsing the internet, looking for nothing in particular. Finding myself on the site of British Library, whic...
Wednesday, June 6, 2018

358. The Book Collector John Morgan (2)

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The Aberdeen book collector John Morgan wrote a memoir of his life that includes paragraphs on book hunting, reading, and his favourite auth...
Wednesday, May 30, 2018

357. The Book Collector John Morgan (1)

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Last week I wrote about the book collector John Morgan from Aberdeen ( 356. Vale Press Keats Edition in a Deluxe Binding ). Local articles ...
Wednesday, May 23, 2018

356. Vale Press Keats Edition in a Deluxe Binding

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Catalogue 40, issued by Nudelman Rare Books from Seattle, lists some fine Ricketts related items, the most attractive one being the Vale Pr...
Wednesday, May 16, 2018

355. A Ricketts Coffee Mug

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You travel to Reims to see the cathedral, and in the shop you see the object that you always wanted to have. The Charles Ricketts coffee mug...
Wednesday, May 9, 2018

354. Ricketts's Design of Oscar Wilde's Poems (1892) (5)

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How was it, that the sheets of the unsold copies of the 1882 reprint of Oscar Wilde's Poems  (originally published in 1881) survived unt...