The Collected Letters of Charles Ricketts: Volume I: 1888–1911 / Volume Ii: 1912–1922 / Volume Iii: 1923–1931 (1;2;3): Volume I: 1888–1911 / ... the Written Word - the Industrial World, 143) - Softcover

9789004751743: The Collected Letters of Charles Ricketts: Volume I: 1888–1911 / Volume Ii: 1912–1922 / Volume Iii: 1923–1931 (1;2;3): Volume I: 1888–1911 / ... the Written Word - the Industrial World, 143)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9004751742 ISBN 13: 9789004751743

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2026

This richly-annotated edition of the collected letters of Charles Ricketts, the multi-talented artist and connoisseur, illustrator, book designer, publisher, sculptor, collector, author and theatrical designer, illuminates English artistic life from the end of the nineteenth century to the early decades of the twentieth.

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About the Author

John Aplin, who gained his Ph.D. in Musicology in 1977, followed an academic career in Music before developing broader interests in the Humanities. He is author of A Thackeray Family Biography, 1876–1919 (2011) and editor of both The Correspondence and Journals of the Thackeray Family (2011), and The Letters of Philip Webb (2016), the Arts & Crafts architect and member of the William Morris circle.

Paul van Capelleveen is curator at the KB, National Library of the Netherlands. He has published articles and books and curated exhibitions about private presses (The Ideal Book, 2010), shipboard printing, artists’ books (Artists & Others, 2016), bookbindings, book collecting, book design; he published a checklist of books designed by Charles Ricketts (1996) and a survey of Ricketts’s early illustrations (2024); since 2011, he has published a weekly blog about Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon (charlesricketts.blogspot.com).

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