Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon

The New Woman. With some fellow travellers and a few antagonists is the title of the second part of Phil Cohen's collection that Maggs ...

Only a minority of book collectors write about their collection, but some collectors actually enjoy writing about the books they surround th...

As they gradually became famous personalities in the art world - exhibitions, articles and opinions on museums and art purchases made them m...

On 30 March 2023, Forum Auctions' Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper included a 'Private Press & Limited Editions' ...

Regularly I receive questions from collectors, and the most straightforward questions are often the hardest to answer. Last week, a bookbind...

In 1924, Charles Ricketts made a series of drawings for (a never realised) edition of Oscar Wilde's prose poems. The set was sold (along...

From about 1910, Ricketts and Shannon became public figures who were therefore regularly photographed, appeared in news reports or became th...

At the end of the year 1941, Chas J. Sawyer in Grafton Street, London, sold Constance Astley's collection - without mentioning her name ...

In the catalogue of Astley's collection, The Ashendene Press takes up five pages; The Daniel Press just over one, The Doves Press six; T...

Constance and Hubert Astley made long voyages to Tenerife, Egypt and America. A family house was located on Lake Como in Italy where they so...

Following Constance Astley's death in 1940 - with her personal property valued at £58,151 - several auctions of household goods and book...