Charles Ricketts, subtle and fantastic decorator

This First Edition copy of Charles Ricketts – Subtle and Fantastic Decorator, by Stephen Calloway, with a Foreword by Kenneth Clark was published in 1979 by Thames and Hudson of London and printed in Great Britain. The book, which measures approximately 8 inches wide by 11 inches tall by 0.25 inches thick, contains 100 pages of text and illustrations (133 illustrations, 6 in color) devoted to the works of Charles Ricketts. The book is soft bound in stiff paper covers with a color reproduction of a Ricketts' pencil and watercolor painting of "Costume design for Herodias in Salomé by Oscar Wilde" on the front and a biographical summary of Ricketts' life, by Oscar Wilde, on the rear. The book is in like new condition.

The illustrations accompanying this description show the book's front cover, a 2-page spread of the Title page and frontispiece (Charles Ricketts by Alphonse Legros, silverpoint drawing, 1895), and three (3) typical 2-page spreads of text and illustrations.

Charles de Sousy Ricketts (2 October 1866 – 7 October 1931) was a British artist, illustrator, author and printer, known for his work as a book designer and typographer and for his costume and scenery designs for plays and operas. [Wikipedia]