Arts & Crafts, including the collection of the late Barbara Morris - 23 Jun 2010
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An interesting album of original designs for book plates by Major E Bengough Ricketts and other hands, the album including the original ink designs mounted with an example of the printed bookplate, including; Alice E Ricketts, 1897, R G de Uphaugh - Hollingbourne House, Revd John Watkins, Julian Marshall, H W Fincham, J L Graham, The Manor House Hollingbourne, Ernest Hale, The Hon Florence Sergison - Slaugham Place, Charles Hoskins Master, C R Homer, Florence Harris, August Albers, Nellie Bates, Julian Marshall, and with an original design for the cover 'Bookplates - 1898', sold with a copy of Quo Vadis displaying a E B Ricketts bookplate, and a christmas card from Harry Marrilier, Kelmscott House 1897
Literature
The Studio Special Winter 1898-9, Major E Bengough Ricketts' work including the plates for Ernest Hale and E Heller is illustrated pages 32-33 in an article on British Book Plates written by Gleeson White.
Major Bengough Ricketts published a volume Composite Book-plates in 1897-8.