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Charles Ricketts - Frontispiece to 'The Dial' (1886)
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Charles Ricketts (1866-1931), 'Ariel's Song to Ferdinand', ''The Magazine of Art'', 1895
"Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Hark! now I hear them — Ding-dong, bell"
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Typography Tuesday
This week we present some type and wood-engraved initials from an edition of Alfred Lord Tennyson's Lyric Poems by the Vale Press, printed in London at the Ballantyne Press in an edition of 320 copies in 1900. British artist, illustrator, printer, and book and type designer Charles Ricketts (1866-1931) founded the Vale Press in 1896 and designed three typefaces for the press. The most commonly used typeface was Vale Type, which is used here. Ricketts also used over 100 ornamental initials which he designed and engraved, several of which are shown here. To make the initials, Ricketts would draw the designs in ink, and then would paste a number of designs onto a single sheet. These were then photographed onto a woodblock, engraved by Ricketts, and finally separated when they were electrotyped.
The Art Nouveau-style border design in the first image was designed by Ricketts and engraved in wood by Charles Edward Keats, who began working for Ricketts in 1899. As Ricketts did not own the requisite printing equipment for his enterprise, he established a relationship with the venerable Edinburgh-founded Ballantyne Press, and this edition was printed by Charles John Holmes, who worked for Ballantyne and became the manager for Vale.
This copy of Lyric Poems is another gift from our friend Jerry Buff.
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#Typography Tuesday#Typetuesday#Vale Type#ornamental initials#Vale Press#Charles Ricketts#Ballantyne Press#Alfred Lord Tennyson#Lyric Poems#Charles Edward Keats#wood engravers#wood engravings#Charles John Holmes#fine press books#fine press printing#Jerry Buff
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Charles Ricketts : Oedipus and the Sphinx, 1891
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Charles Ricketts (w / Charles Shannon)
The Great Worm. 1889 (from The Dial N° 1)
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Illustration from Oscar Wilde’s The Sphinx by Charles Ricketts (1894)
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Charles Ricketts (British, 1866–1931)
"Psyche in the house", illustration for Apuleius, De Cupidinis et Psyches Amoribus (London: Vale Press, 1901)
British Museum
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Charles Ricketts (deceased)
Gender: Male
Sexuality: Gay
DOB: 2 October 1866
RIP: 7 October 1931
Ethnicity: White - British
Occupation: Artist, illustrator, writer, printer
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Edip i l'esfinx
Charles Ricketts
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Oedipus and the Sphinx by 1) Francois-Xavier Fabre, 2) Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 3) Gustave Moreau, 4) Gustave Moreau, 5) Charles Ricketts, 6) John McKirdy Duncan, 7) Niels Skovgaard, and 4) Samuele Gaudio.
#oedipus and the sphinx#Francois-Xavier Fabre#gustave moreau#charles ricketts#jean auguste dominique ingres#oil painting#watercolour#mythology#greek mythology in art#john mckirdy duncan#niels skovgaard#samuele gaudio
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Charles Ricketts - Don Juan challenging the Commander (1928)
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Charles Ricketts, Chacun Porte sa Chimère (Chimeras)
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Publishers' Binding Thursday
Today's Publishers' Binding Thursday book was found while simply browsing our stacks—and what a find it is! This is Poems, Dramatic and Lyrical by English poet, coin enthusiast, and botanist John Leicester Warren, Lord de Tabley (1835-1895). It was published in London by Elkin Mathews (1851-1921) and John Lane (1854-1925) at the Sign of the Bodley Head and in New York by Macmillan and Company in 1893. The book features five engravings by British artist, illustrator, and printer Charles Ricketts (1866-1931) and the bookplate of John Leicester Warren designed by Scottish artist William Bell Scott (1811-1890). Warren had an interest in bookplates and became an authority on them.
The binding was designed by Charles Ricketts, possibly with help from someone with the initials H.L.S. (or those initials in another order). Ricketts's initials and those of the mysterious H.L.S. are stamped in gold in opposite corners of the covers—C.R. in the top left and H.L.S. in the bottom right. The cover features in the upper righthand corner an angel inside of a golden heart holding a lyre made from wings and a heart. Surrounding this is a pattern of repeated rose petals, which to us look a bit like teeth or hot air balloons. The book cloth is a leafy green color that on our copy has either been glued unevenly or has become rumpled with time.
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-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager
#Publishers' Binding Thursday#publishers' bindings#Poems Dramatic and Lyrical#John Leicester Warren#Lord de Tabley#Elkin Mathews#John Lane#Sign of the Bodley Head#Bodley Head#Macmillan and Company#Charles Ricketts#William Bell Scott
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The Borgia Family, 1863, Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Costume design for Shakespeare’s Heroines, 1926, Charles Ricketts
#pre-raphaelite#art#victorian art#pre raphaelite#preraphaelite#dante gabriel rossetti#costume design#shakespeare#Charles Ricketts#illustration
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Charles Ricketts - The Holy Women, 1910.
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