Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon

Wednesday, February 27, 2019

396. Two Deluxe Copies of The Sphinx

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On 30 January Forum Auctions in London sold the collection of the late Bruce Beatty, and three weeks later, on 20 February 2019, Christie...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

395. Ricketts and Shannon as Old Masters of the Future

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About a week ago Brill publishers (Leiden/Boston) published Art Crossing Borders. The Internationalisation of the Art Market in the Age of ...
Wednesday, February 13, 2019

394. Charles Shannon's Russian Postcard

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Recently, an ephemera dealer in Moscow sold a Russian postcard with an image of Charles Shannon's lithograph 'The Incoming Tide'...
Wednesday, February 6, 2019

393. An Extra-Illustrated Sphinx

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Private press books, and deluxe editions, have usually been treated well, and heavily annotated copies of Kelmscott Press, and Dove or Vale ...
Wednesday, January 30, 2019

392. Charles Ricketts and Oscar Wilde's Woman's World (addendum)

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The latest issue of   The Wildean   (A Journal of Oscar Wilde Studies) for January 2019 contains some unknown and surprising letters by Osc...
Wednesday, January 23, 2019

391. Ricketts on Venetian Printing and The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili

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Recently, an unknown review by Charles Ricketts emerged from the sea of digitised magazines. It was contributed to a magazine that published...
Wednesday, January 16, 2019

390. The 2019 Alphabet: W

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W is for Why? Why are you tarrying? Get hence! I weary of your sullen ways, I weary of your steadfast gaze, your somnolent magnificence. ...
Wednesday, January 9, 2019

389. Vale Press Collectors: N.J. Beversen

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An important exhibition in the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp in 1904 presented an overview of modern book art in Europe and America, inc...
Wednesday, January 2, 2019

388. Mario Praz and Ricketts's Fall of Icarus

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Mario Praz, best known for his book The Romantic Agony , also wrote a work on his life, his collection and his apartment in Palazzo Ricci in...
Wednesday, December 26, 2018

387. Children of the Hour

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H. Henry & Company in London were the publishers of The Pageant , a luxury year book that was edited by Charles Shannon and Gleeson Whit...
Wednesday, December 19, 2018

386. The 2018 Alphabet: V

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V is for v. v. The Passionate Pilgrim (Vale Press, 1896, page v) One of the enigmas of Vale Press books is the page number on page v...
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