Excerpt from The Studio, Vol. 46: An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art; February 15, 1909 Here I must pause, for on this subject of col leeting which fills Mr. Shannon's leisure hours with excitement, joy, and sometimes with despair, the name of his companion in art and connoisseur ship, Mr. Charles Ricketts, claims immediate attention. The two are inseparable; they live together; they collect together; they work in ad joining studios, and in any account of the life, aims, and appreciations of Mr. Shannon, the name of Mr. Ricketts runs to the tongue as dutifully as that of Sullivan to Gilbert, or Fletcher to Beau mont. As the versatility of Mr. Ricketts is to form the subject of a future paper in this magazine, I may, for the present, not without difficulty, attempt to avoid his name. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.