Late-flowering beauty 1880s-1890s

Charles Ricketts - Cover design for 'The Sphinx' by Oscar Wilde

Cover design for 'The Sphinx' by Oscar Wilde Charles Ricketts Published by Elkin Mathews & John Lane Bound by Leighton, Son & Hodge London 1894 Vellum-covered boards blocked in gold Museum no. NAL: Drawer 67

Charles Ricketts - Cover design for 'The Sphinx' by Oscar Wilde

Ricketts designed the typography, illustrations and binding for this edition of Oscar Wilde's Aesthetic poem The Sphinx. The binding combines Byzantine and Japanese motifs.