Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon

Last week's blog about the historian Huizinga displayed one of the back-drops Ricketts designed for Shaw's play Saint Joan . Ch...

The great Dutch historian Johan Huizinga (1872-1945) wrote a review about Bernard Shaw's Saint Joan. He drew a comparison between a Dut...

Catalogue Number Four was the Spring 1984 catalogue of Pagoda Books in London and it was dressed in a thick white paper cover containing ima...

Sorting out old antiquarian catalogues, I found a few examples of catalogues that imitate one of the books that is offered for sale inside. ...

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...