Volume I
1 Charles Shannon, âThe Vale in Snowâ, lithograph, 1889 4
2 Charles Shannon, âThe Modellerâ, portrait of Thomas Sturge Moore, lithograph, 1891 9
3 Portrait of Michael Field, silver gelatin carte de visite. Copy of the photograph taken by Erwin Raupp in Dresden, October 1891, likely made by Bromhead, Clifton, Bristol, and placed on a mount dating from the late 1880s 11
4 Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon at The Vale, photograph, 1893 24
5 Charles Shannon, âThe Wood Engraverâ, portrait of Charles Ricketts, lithograph, 1894 26
6 Portrait of William Rothenstein and Max Beerbohm, albumen cabinet card, 1891 32
7a/b Recto and verso of postcard to Théo van Rysselberghe, 6 June 1894 36
8 Charles Shannon to Philip Zilcken, about 12 September 1894 42
9 Michael Field, Fair Rosamund. London: Hacon & Ricketts, 1897. Copy bound after a design by Charles Ricketts, red goatskin tooled in gold 74
10 William Strang, portrait of Laurence Binyon, drypoint, 1898 248
11a/b Image of bronze by Charles Ricketts, âThe Depositionâ, 1908 290
12 Charles Ricketts, cover for Oscar Wilde, De Profundis. London: Methuen & Co., 1905. Limited edition in white buckram 336
13 Charles Ricketts: ârelic from better days Alas!â On Vale Press stationary in use after the demise of Hacon and Ricketts. Letter to Robert Ross, 23 March 1906 426
14 Charles Ricketts: âVoila un faloous Monseur!â Letter to Robert Ross, 23 March 1906 426
15 Charles Ricketts, sketch of statue of masked female holding mirror with annotation: âDesign for a new statue of Truth dedicated to R.R.â Letter to Robert Ross, 1907 or later 519
16 Charles Ricketts, dedication to H.G. Plimmer and self-caricature âC.R. after Lunch | at 3 Hall Rd.â on the cover of Charles Ricketts, A Century of Art 1810â1910. London: Carfax & Co., [1911] 727
Volume II
17 Charles Ricketts, cover for Michael Field, Mystic Trees. London: Eveleigh Nash, [1913] 866
18 Sketches of paintings by Edgar Degas and D.Y. Cameron at the International Society exhibition. Picture postcard to Mary Davis, 1 October 1913 874
19 Edmund Dulac, Self-portrait, receiving from Edmund Davis a symbolic castle representing the studio at 72 Ladbroke Road that Davis lent to Dulac, drawing, 1912. Present whereabouts unknown. From Ann Conolly Hughey, Edmund Dulac, His Book Illustrations. A Bibliography. Potomac, MD: Buttonwood Press, 1995, frontispiece 895
20 Image of bronze by Charles Ricketts, âThe Good Samaritanâ, with note by CR: âThis is a masterpiece, it represents the good Samaritan though it does not look like it. â that is why it is so good.â Picture postcard to Ross, perhaps late June or early July 1914 906
21 Charles Ricketts, colour sketch for a painting (âNimrodâ). Letter to Gordon Bottomley, 12 January 1915 949
22 Charles Ricketts, illustration of a burning Zeppelin. Letter to Gordon Bottomley, 2 October 1916 1107
23 Charles Ricketts, proof wood-engraving for a proposed edition of Plato, The Symposium (c.1894) of which proofs were taken by the firm of Emery Walker, Walker and Boutall, 1917. From Malcolm C. Salaman, The Graphic Arts of Great Britain. Drawing, Line-Engraving, Etching, Mezzotint, Aquatint, Lithography, Wood-Engraving, Colour-Printing, edited by Charles Holme. London, Paris, New York: âStudioâ Ltd., 1917, p. 149 1158
24 Charles Ricketts, sketches for a staging of âKing Learâs Wifeâ. Letter to Gordon Bottomley, 20 November 1917 1189
25 Charles Ricketts, design for the The British Music Bulletin, Volume III, No. 3 (March 1921). First used in volume II, No. 6 (June 1920) 1400
26 Charles Ricketts, dress design for âThe Betrothalâ, 5 January 1921. Letter to Stella Patrick Campbell, about 5 January 1921 1445
27 Michel de Klerk, portrait of Richard Nicolaüs Roland Holst, drawing, 1921 1469
28 Charles Ricketts, cover for Gordon Bottomley, Gruach and Britainâs Daughter. Two Plays. London: Constable & Company Limited, 1921. Proof copy in green cloth 1487
29 Charles Ricketts, cover for Gordon Bottomley. Gruach and Britainâs Daughter. Two Plays. London: Constable & Company Limited, 1921. Regular copy in red cloth 1488
30 Charles Ricketts, âbookplateâ for W.B. Yeats, Later Poems. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1922. (First volume of The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats) 1514
Volume III
31 Charles Ricketts, design for a tombstone for Michael Field. Letter to John Gray, probably early November 1923 1565
32 Charles Ricketts, sketch of the London performance of âGruachâ. Letter to Gordon Bottomley, 21 January 1924 1582
33 Charles Ricketts, cover (detail) for George Bernard Shaw, Saint Joan. A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue. With sketches by C. Ricketts. London: Constable & Co. Ltd., 1924 1614
34a/b Charles Ricketts, cover and dust wrapper for The Golden Treasury of Modern Lyrics, selected and arranged by Laurence Binyon. London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1924 1618â1619
35 Charles Ricketts, spine and front of dust wrapper for W.B. Yeats, Autobiographies: Reveries over Childhood and Youth and The Trembling of the Veil. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1926. (Sixth volume of The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats) 1620
36 Charles Shannon, portrait of Gordon Bottomley, drawing, 1924. Frontispiece in Gordon Bottomley, Poems of Thirty Years. London. Constable & Company Limited., 1925 1644
37 Charles Ricketts, costume illustration on cover of Souvenir of Rupert DâOyly Carteâs Season of Gilbert and Sullivan Operas illustrating the New Dresses Designed by Charles Ricketts, A.R.A. for The Mikado. London: Princes Theatre, 1926 1708
38 Charles Ricketts, cover for Charles Ricketts, Beyond the Threshold. [London:] Privately Printed (distributed by The First Edition Club) [1929] 1958
39 Charles Ricketts, illustration âThe Head of Orpheusâ, for Beyond the Threshold. [London:] Privately Printed (distributed by The First Edition Club), [1929] 1959
40 Charles Ricketts, cover for the limited edition bound in pigskin of The Legion Book, edited by H. Cotton Minchin. London: Privately printed (Plaistow. The Curwen Press), 1929 2054
41a/b Recto and verso of postcard to Marcus Behmer, 9 January 1931 2148â2149
42a/b Charles Ricketts, front and back cover for Oscar Wilde Recollections. Bloomsbury [London]: The Nonesuch Press, 1932 2164â2165
(Note: Images from the BL have been made by the editors, with the Libraryâs permission, as the Digital Imaging service was unavailable following a major cyber attack on the Libraryâs systems. Images from the Paulton Collection have been made available by the collectors. All these images have been photo edited by Huug Schipper, Studio Tint, The Hague.)