Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon

The first number of The Dial contained one story by Charles Shannon - I don't think he ever again tried to write a literary contributio...

T is for Ton. Ton will be celebrating his birthday on 22 November. Initial 'T' in Daphnis and Chloe , illustrated by Charles R...

T is for The. The sound rolls through the reddening air, the muffled thum! the d umb! of a monotonous drum. Initial 'T' (...

The current exhibition at the National Galleries of Scotland is called ' At the Turn of the Century '. The introductory texts sugges...

The Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition 'Designers & Jewellery 1850-1940: Jewellery and Metalwork from The Fitzwilliam Museum' is on ...

Since 2000, the number of articles about Oscar Wilde or Michael Field that mention Charles Ricketts and his designs for their books has inc...

In the 1960s the appreciation for the 1890s, decadence, art nouveau and symbolism grew immensely, partly as a result of the V&A exhibit...

Ricketts's death in 1931 set in motion a stream of obituaries, commemorative exhibitions and memoirs, which lasted for twenty years. Fr...

My impression is that the last twenty years scholarly publications about Charles Ricketts have broadened their scope. In order to find out i...

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...