Charles Ricketts & Charles Shannon

Although Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) was one of the most important influences on Ricketts's work, he did not write often about th...

In 1936, Christie, Manson & Woods issued the catalogue of The Famous Collection of Old Master Drawings Formed by the Late Henry Oppenhei...

The brief articles Ricketts wrote for the Vasari Society featured artists he often mentioned in his books  The Prado or Titian , or in revi...

From the moment the Vasari Society for the Reproduction of Drawings by Old Masters presented its first portfolio in 1905 until the publicati...

The Vasari Society for the Reproduction of Drawings by Old Masters was founded in 1905, and a first portfolio was probably issued in January...

With the deadline for the copy of The Collected Letters of Charles Ricketts fast approaching, John Aplin and I, as editors, are working fev...

It is not often that one of Charles Ricketts's statues comes up for sale. He did not make many sculptures in the early 1910s and the edi...

Last Friday I gave a lecture to the visitors of the National Library of the Netherlands in The Hague about Charles Ricketts, simply because ...

There are professional guides to the terminology of the condition of a book. An online example of this is ‘A Guide to Used Book Conditions’ ...

Although Charles Ricketts was born in Switzerland of both English and Italian descent, and  partly raised and educated in France, he apparen...

David Cornwell - better known as John le Carré - died five years ago; his library is now for sale at Maggs in London: John le Carré. Books f...