Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon

There will be an audio book of the first issue of the magazine The Dial from 1889! The texts are read out by volunteers for a website that ...

The Book of Italy appeared during World War I, in 1916, and its chief aim was to help the Italian soldiers' and sailors' families...

This week's blog is a guest blog written by Geoff Dibb, events secretary of the Oscar Wilde Society. In 2013, his study of Wilde's U...

What did Charles Ricketts's portrait of W.H. look like? Earlier, I wrote about Oscar Wilde's story and about Ricketts painting that ...

For many of Ricketts's friends, his death came as a surprise, although they found him tired and overworked in recent years. The poet Gor...

In this blog, I haven't mentioned the new biography about Oscar Wilde before, but the book is a good opportunity to see how both biograp...

Occasionally, in search of literature on illustrations and book covers, you'll come across an article that surprises you. Recently I rea...

The small exhibition at the Rotunda of the Old Library at Dulwich College in London ( see blog 425 ) ends on 17 October. Requests to visit...

Next Monday, on 7 October, a deluxe copy of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray will be auctioned at Christie's in Paris . ...