Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon

On 6 November 1933, the collection of 'the late W.A. Pye. Esq.' came under the hammer at Sotheby & Co in London: 131 lots, inclu...

On Wednesday 20 June 1903 Charles Ricketts noted in his diary that 'old Maccoll', that is, Charles McCall, manager at the Ballantyne...

This week I received a Canadian query about Charles Ricketts's woodcuts for two editions of Apuleius. The Vale Press published an Englis...

Charles Ricketts designed several pairs of gloves.  The May Morris Gloves The best-known is the pair of ecclesiastical gloves that was embro...

Charles Ricketts designed the binding for the works of W.B. Yeats, published in six volumes, 1922-1926. For the American editions an altered...

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...