{"id":19045,"date":"2019-03-08T01:07:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T01:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=19045"},"modified":"2019-03-08T01:14:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T01:14:00","slug":"the-dial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2019\/03\/08\/the-dial\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dial01-big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dial01.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dial01.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yet another <em>fin de si\u00e8cle<\/em> journal which we can now see in its entirety, <em>The Dial<\/em> was a short-lived British publication which expired at a time when more prominent titles were being launched. The publishers were Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon, a couple who were partners in life as well as art and publishing, and members of Oscar Wilde&#8217;s small circle of circumspect gay and lesbian friends. Ricketts and Shannon published some of Wilde&#8217;s poetry\u2014notably a beautiful edition of <em>The Sphinx<\/em>\u2014and followed the William Morris ideal of using traditional techniques for art and printing rather than relying on the line block. Most of the illustrations in <em>The Dial<\/em> are woodcuts although Ricketts and Shannon also produced etchings and the occasional painting, as with Ricketts&#8217; Moreau-like piece below. Many of the <em>Dial<\/em> pieces have been reprinted in books about the pair but these never show you everything so the journals contain a number of smaller works I hadn&#8217;t seen before. <em>The Dial<\/em> ran for five issues from 1889 to 1897. The Internet Archive has a couple of sets of which these are the better copies:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/gri_33125014428284\" target=\"_blank\">Issue 1<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/gri_33125014428227\" target=\"_blank\">Issue 2<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/gri_33125014428169\" target=\"_blank\">Issue 3<\/a> |<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/gri_33125014428243\" target=\"_blank\">Issue 4<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/gri_33125014428300\" target=\"_blank\">Issue 5<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dial02-big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dial02.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dial02.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dial03-big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dial03.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dial03.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dial04-big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dial04.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dial04.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dial05-big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dial05.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dial05.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dial06-big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dial06.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dial06.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dial07-big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dial07.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dial07.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dial08-big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dial08.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dial08.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dial09-big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dial09.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dial09.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dial10-big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dial10.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dial10.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dial11-big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"dial01.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/dial11.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previously on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2017\/01\/04\/form-and-austin-osman-spare\/\">Form and Austin Osman Spare<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/10\/11\/in-the-key-of-blue-by-john-addington-symonds\/\">In the Key of Blue by John Addington Symonds<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/07\/27\/charles-ricketts-salome\/\">Charles Ricketts\u2019 Salom\u00e9<\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/07\/12\/charles-ricketts-hero-and-leander\/\">Charles Ricketts\u2019 Hero and Leander<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another fin de si\u00e8cle journal which we can now see in its entirety, The Dial was a short-lived British publication which expired at a time when more prominent titles were being launched. The publishers were Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon, a couple who were partners in life as well as art and publishing, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2019\/03\/08\/the-dial\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Dial&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,30,42,5,43],"tags":[206,554,136,1854,116,1188],"class_list":["post-19045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-black-white","category-books","category-gay","category-magazines","tag-charles-ricketts","tag-charles-shannon","tag-fin-de-siecle","tag-internet-archive","tag-oscar-wilde","tag-william-morris"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4Xb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}