Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon

Emery Walker - see previous blog - played an important advisory role for private presses in the 1890s. He inspired William Morris to design ...

As a Ricketts blogger, I naturally regularly check the index of books in which his name might appear. In the book of letters to and from Eme...

The Rivendale Press has for some time been publishing a series of simply produced booklets (in a marble paper cover) under the title Questin...

Searching for Belgian Vale Press collections - not found by the way, there seem to be surprisingly few copies of this private press in Flemi...

The final instalment of this series deals with the last book Charles Ricketts designed for the publisher Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., A Hous...

In November 1891 the first volume of The Bard of the Dimbovitza. Roumanian Folk-Songs appeared. Ricketts designed the title page, with a ne...

As mentioned last week, the title page of Lord Arthur Savile's Crime & Other Stories by Oscar Wilde was not decorated or embellishe...

A new, elongated publisher's mark was drawn by Charles Ricketts for the cover of Oscar Wilde's collection of short stories, Lord Art...

When I published an article in The Book Collector in 2006 entitled 'The Revival of a Publisher's Device. Charles Ricketts and Osgoo...

For each of Oscar Wilde's books published by Osgood, McIlvaine & Co. Ricketts designed a new publisher's mark, but he did not do...

The publisher's mark that Ricketts had designed for Wilde's Intentions would, with a slight modification, be used almost immediatel...

From 1891 onwards, b y virtue of Oscar Wilde, Charles Ricketts was commissioned  to design book covers (and sometimes more) for commercial p...

Recently, the Nederlands Genootschap van Bibliofielen (Dutch Association of Bibliophiles) edited a book on Dutch auctions from the twentieth...

For substantial book projects, such as Daphnis and Chloe (1893), Ricketts and Shannon made several sketches that were never developed into w...

Six years before his death, Ricketts posed for a picture in  The Sphere magazine. In the April 18, 1931 issue, it posted nine photographs of...

Last week we reached the deadline for a major project I have been working on as editor-in-chief for the past few years: an almost 400-page w...

Tomorrow, October 7, it is ninety years since Charles Ricketts died. Last October 2 marked the 155th anniversary of his birth. Charles Ricke...

There are not many articles in newspapers and magazines that pay attention to Gloria Cardew's work around 1900 and only one mentions her...