Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon

Blog 552, The Wise and Foolish Virgins by Charles Shannon , promised more information about Joseph Bibby's acquisition of Charles Shanno...

Last week I wrote about a podcast on YouTube that had been available for some time, but there is also a more recent contribution that has to...

On YouTube, a podcast has been published by Nigel Beale. He interviews Paul Delaney, Ricketts's biographer, about Ricketts's life a...

In response to my previous blog, I received some comments with more information that will allow us to get a fuller picture of Percy Nicholls...

A question about the couple who managed the household of Ricketts and Shannon led to a search for a study of Shannon's painting The Wise...

The final episode on the provenance of the copy of Daphnis and Chloe in the collection of Arizona State University Library deals with the o...

In this sequel about the provenance of a copy of Daphnis and Chloe (1893) in the collection of the Arizona State University Library - see l...

Some books amass a demonstrable history over the course of their existence, ranging from neglect (broken spine, holes caused by rabbit attac...

Almost nine years ago I published a blog about the problematic dating and the different versions of a bookplate that Ricketts designed for G...

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...