Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon

From the hundreds of antiquarian catalogues that I recently handled - in an attempt to save space - I found one published by Blackwell's...

In 1924, the printer Oliver Simon (Curwen Press) formed a then nameless club that somewhat later would assume the name of The Double Crown C...

Green Lizard Sonnet O Love, the transformations thou hast given! Love, through all transformations I believe. The Jove that I have se...

An Enchanter To all men of the earth a foreigner, He lends his alien glance to every eye; The other side the moon he passes by, And we...

The Poet Within his eyes are hung lamps of his sanctuary: A wind, from whence none knows, can set in sway And spill their light by fits...

Pan Asleep He half unearthed the Titans with his voice; The stars are leaves before his windy riot; The spheres a little shake: but, se...

Elkin Mathews and John Lane issued a prospectus for the new 'edition' of Oscar Wilde's Poems in 1892, probably around April, as...

The Spring 2018 issue of The British Art Journal contains an article by Libby Horner about the art collection of Kojiro Matsukata (1865-1...

For the new issue of Oscar Wilde's Poems in 1892, a prospectus was issued by Elkin Mathews & John Lane. Prospectus for Oscar W...

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

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

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

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