Will bradley cover design (10 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Poor. 1st Edition. Cover Only For A Railroad Brochure, Printed By Rand Mcnally, Where Bradley Had Been Employed As A Shop Assistant Circa 1887. From A Very Large And Sophisticated Collection Of Bradley Material, Not Signed By Bradley But Illustration Apparently By Him.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. 8 Pp Brochure Including Covers. Cover Design By Will Bradley, Signed "Bradley".Small Hole At Upper Left Corner Through All Pages, Outsode Printed Areas.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Way & Williams, 1897; stated Third Edition, August 1897, no later printings indicated; [ix], 351pp. + map frontispiece and 10 b&w illustrated plates. Black cloth binding with Art Noveau-inspired red and yellow lettering and sabretooth tiger design by the great Will Bradley, gilt top edge. Binding is firm and fully intact; moderate amount of wear to edges of boards, a few small pen-head indentations in spine; titling/design remains bright and bold. A very presentable copy.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good Plus. Hard cover, 8vo in original decorated orange cloth blocked in black with theatrical cover design by Massachusetts designer Will H. Bradley, showing some design similarities to the work of Beardsley. (His signature "B" is at the upper right corner of the design.) Believed to be first printing of this early American edition, as later runs had variant covers. Illustrated with with photomechanically reproduced full page frontispiece, and three other full page images within the text taken from opening night of the work in Paris, 28th Dec., 1897. xviii, 214 pp. A small bookseller's label at rear gutter. CONDITION: Very Good Plus. Lacking dust jacket. Two small areas of fading to the upper right corner of front board, which is otherwise very clean. Minimal shelf wear with a bit of crimping at foot of spine, which is a bit faded. All hinges and joints are in order, book is square and lightly age toned, with small amount of foxing in the area of the frontispiece which affects the title page, as seen. Bookplate of a prior owner ffep. Set in seventeenth century France of Louis XIV and Cardinal Richelieu, the famously large-nosed cavaliere courts the beloved Roxanne in this light-hearted theatre piece. Influential American graphic designer WILL H. BRADLEY (1868-1962) worked in Massachusetts and on commissions abroad around the turn of the century. PROVENANCE: Collector bookplate appears to be of a notable sheet-music collector and pioneer of musicology, Lester S. Levy (1896-1989) whose large collection of American music is at John Hopkins Univ. Bambace A46. (AMJ). Will S. Bradley (cover design) (illustratore). Book.…

Illustrated Wrappers. Condizione: Very Good +. First Edition Thus. 26 Pp [Cover, Title Page, Pages Numbered 5-25, Rear Cover]. Elaborate Cover Design By Will Bradley, Printed In Green, With A Small Decoration By Bradley, Also In Green, On The Title Page. Finely Printed On Handmade Paper, Pages A Little Smaller Than The Covers. No Names Or Marks Or Further Printed Information. Very Scarce, Only One Institutional Holding Shown In Worldcat; Not Mentioned In The Bradley Bibliography By Bambace Nor The Rubaiyat Bibliography By Potter. Bradley Designed Several Editions Of This Work, But This Is Much Later And The Designs Are Unlike The Earlier Publications. Covers Lightly Worn At Edges With A Few Small Foxing Spots In Margins.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Hard cover, 12mo (5 x 6 1/2 inches), in quarter linen over green-grey illustrated paper covered boards with an art nouveau inspired image of a cloaked woman playing an Irish harp upon a rocky outcropping shaded by a fruited cornucopia of trees, printed in dark grey. Signed "B" for Will H. Bradley in lower right of illustration. Printed and applied paper label to the spine. Very small vintage bookstore label to inside front cover near gutter. Dedicated to W.B. Yeats. Printed at Will Bradley's The Wayside Press in Springfield, Massachusetts 1897 as on the Bradley designed and printed colophon at rear of publication. WHB also designed the tree art on the illustrated title page, printed in green. Contains fifty-five verses by the multi-talented Irish poet "Æ," or George William Russell (1867-1935): lifelong friend of Yeats, poet, playwright and author, painter, mystic, co-operative farmer's organizer and, later, editor of "The Irish Statesman," a man whom his son described as "having a vast compassion for all men." **CONDITION: Near Fine. Very clean, light wear at tips, small chips missing on spine label. A few spots of very light foxing within. A few pages are over-opened. Still, a very nice and clean example. **Of American artist, printer, book designer and typographer WILL H. BRADLEY (1868-1962), bibliographer Will Ransom said: "There was another man who, like Charles Ricketts, had printing done under his supervision, mostly for commercial purposes but with an occasional book, but who contributed largely to the typographical awakening [of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,] of the time. Perhaps, under other circumstances, Will Bradley, whose personal work bore the imprint of the Wayside Press, might have done as much creative work in book design as his contemporaries across the sea, for he was, and still is, a designer of marked originality and sound taste." The Wayside Press makes this a Massachusetts imprint, although Bradley would work internationally as well as in Boston and New York. (p. 73). REFS: Bambace, A15. W. Ransom (1929) pp. 73, 445. Please read a wonderful biographical article about the poet written by his son, Diarmuid Russell in the Feb. 1943 issue of "The Atlantic." (AMJ). Will H. Bradley (cover design) (illustratore). Book.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good Plus. Fifth Edition. Fifth Edition, of 1896 original. Hard cover, 8vo, in green cloth , the boards blocked in gilt with design by Will H. Bradley in a twining, Art Nouveau depiction of a young woman's face in profile, repeated among twining organic flowering vines to front board and along spine. Rear board is plain. Printed on laid paper, top edge gilt, other page edges untrimmed. 307pp plus 1897 dated publisher's catalogue in 16pp. Printer's colophon of John Wilson and Son, University Press. **CONDITION: Very Good Plus, with one lightly bumped corner upper right board and one small dent at fore edge board. Head of spine lightly crimped, as seen. Otherwise very lightly age toned, gilt remaining bright. Some bookseller notations in pencil to paste downs. Joints and hinges in order. **This turn of the century "romantic novel" is actually a rather comic and modern satiric take on a thirty-year old English bachelor's belated quest for romantic fulfillment. Starting out with the highest of ideals and a poetic bent, he literally hits the road, rather in Don Quixote style, to wander along the byways of Sussex in search of this mystical dryad, the woman of his dreams. At an inn, he accumulates some personal remnants of a young lady named Sylvia Joy, around whom he builds a fantasy of perfection and devotes himself to finding her. Along the way, though, he happily partakes in some casual affairs, and encounters various couples who begin to temper his Romantic expectations of the perfection of the marital state, in a story with almost Shakespearean levels of coincidence and humor. He will, in the end, find his intended, after a few brushes with some radical modern thinking, and meeting several " New Women" liberated from traditional mores. (In this, the work has been described as a bridge between the Romantic and Decadent movements.) It is a wonderful read, all the more so because written by a "moonstruck" male.**Liverpool-born AUTHOR and poet RICHARD LE GALLIENNE(1866-1947), had a complex personal life, with several marriages as well as an early affair with the writer Oscar Wilde. He was associated with The Rhymers Club, Yeats and would publish books of poetry, biography as well as novels, and contributed to the Yellow Book. His travels took him to New York, France and Monaco. He was also father to celebrated actress Eva Le Gallienne. Massachusetts typographer and graphic designer WILL H. BRADLEY's (1868-1962) work is very collectible. He worked earliest in his career at the University Press, Boston, thereafter at his own Springfield, MA Wayside Press, and later at New York's William E. Rudge. Very reminiscent of the book cover design work of Laurence Housman: See our items Nos. 9729 and 9668 for these cover designs. Some of Bradley's original designs were sold on to be used by other publishers, such as tJohn Lane and The Bodley Head. Bambace p. vii). REF: A. Bambace, "Will H. Bradley: His Work, A Bibliographical Guide," (Oak Knoll, New Castle DE, 1995.) A14. Morris and Levin (2000) No. 70. (AMJ). Will H. Bradley (cover design) (illustratore). Book.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good Plus. First Edition Thus. Hard cover, 8vo, in blue decorative cloth binding blocked in gold with an original cover design by Massachusetts graphic artist and book designer, Will H. Bradley, featuring an allover art nouveau Laurence Housman-inspired diaper design of intertwined lilies, Tudor roses, and their foliage to the front board, and surmounted with title and illustrator's name. Bradley's signature " B"appears at bottom right of the design. The spine features the title and a larger vignette version of the rose and lily artwork, also in gold. Top edge gilt. Inside are a color frontispiece reproduced from a watercolor by Madeleine Lemaire, for a total of twelve full page color reproductions. Additionally, one hundred black and white illustrations within the text are done by C. McCormick Rogers. Bradley's double-ruled title page in black features an immediately recognizable Bradley motif, but is not signed. 382pp. First Edition Thus. **CONDITION: Very Good Plus. A former owner signature on the ffep. is dated 1975 in ballpoint. A few small bookseller's notes in light pencil to same one other prelim. Spine very lightly sunned. A couple of small marks and a bit of rubbing. to rear board. Joints, hinges and corners are in order. Book is slightly cocked and with one small dent at bottom front edge.**OWEN MEREDITH was the pseudonym of Edward "Robert" Bulwer Lytton (1831-1891), English poet and author. He was also a diplomat and Viceroy of India from 1876-1880. He was the son of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, conservative politician, and novelist. **"Lucile" has been described as a "verse novel." It was incredibly popular, and from its initial publication in 1860 was reprinted by numerous publishers in over 2,000 editions. Bambace notes other color variants, and a further large paper "deluxe" edition were also produced and advertised by the Frederick Stokes and Co. in Publisher's Weekly in September, 1897. This engagingly written story is about the romantic entanglements of Lucile, Comtesse de Nevers. She writes from mountainous France to a former British lover, Lord Alfred Vargrave, asking for the speedy return of billet deux, having heard of his impending engagement to a Miss Darcy . French ARTIST MADELEINE LEMAIR (1845-1928) was a well-connected contemporary of Marcel Proust whom she welcomed to the luminaries connected with her artistic salons in Paris. Her work was exhibited at the Women's Building and The Palace of Fine Arts at the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago. REFS: Bambace (1995) A28. (AMJ). Madeleine Lemaire; C. McCormick Rogers; Will H. Bradley (cover design and title page) (illustratore). Book.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. Stated First Edition. Hard cover 8vo in a Beardsley-inspired decorated black cloth binding blocked in gold and designed by the American illustrator and typographer, Will H. Bradley, (with his initial B in lower left of illustration.) then employed at the University Press, John Wilson & Son, Cambridge, Massachusetts where the book was printed. Front board features abstracted figures of two women surrounded by hearts, a dove and roses in a striking art nouveau style. Ruled borders delineate fields for the above illustration, with title box below, and a smaller vignette image of a cross with heart pierced by an arrow nearer the fore edge. A similar but not identical vignette of arrows, cross and roses appears on the spine, with tile above and publisher's name below. Rear board is plain. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. viii, 297pp. on laid paper. **CONDITION: Very Good, with some minor soiling and rubbing to front board. Hinges and joints in order. An old bookseller note in pencil to front endpaper. An area of browning to outer corner of the rear fly leaves, and one small ghost of a paperclip? to top edge one page, see photo. A bit age toned overall, and binding slightly cocked. A gift inscription to ffep. in old ink dated '09 may invite further investigation. **In this turn of the century British novel, Theophilus Londonderry, a young nonconformist lay pastor of the New Zion Chapel, of the fictional northern industrial town of Coalchester, must weigh up implications of being in love with two women. The author employs much sardonic wit in describing the town's old-school "Lit and Phil"-run lyceum overtaken by the young turks of modernism, publishers of a weekly publication, appropriately called, "New Dawn." The New Woman, employed, independent, a smoker and with a "past," is embodied in Isobel Strange, whose arrival to lecture at the New Zion meeting room throws Theo into romantic disarray. Will he maintain a planned engagement to Jenny Talbot, the daughter of his rooming house hosts? Or give in to his struck-by-lightening attraction to Isobel? Resistance to modernizing cultural innovations from William Morris wallpaper to the music of Dvo?ák round out the contextual climate.**Liverpool-born Author Richard Le Gallienne, (1866-1947) while thrice married, was also famous for a youthful relationship with Oscar Wilde, and sometimes described as the latter's "acolyte." He contributed to the "Yellow Book" during the 1890's, where he must have made the acquaintance of their mutual publishers represented here. REFS.: Bambace (1995) A40. Morris and Levin (2000) No. 69 for cover design by Will H. Bradley. Illustrated in "The International Studio, Winter 1899-1900, see our number 9889. (AMJ). Will H. Bradley (cover design) (illustratore). Book.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good Plus. First Edition. Inscribed Association Copy from Publisher Robert Howard Russell (and two fellow Broadway Actors,) to Actor and Theater Impresario, Francis B. Wilson. First Edition. Hard cover, large 8vo (height 9 1/2 inches), in tan-grey cloth blocked in silver with cover design, unsigned but attributed to Will H. Bradley, of twining floral vine, (possibly honeysuckle or chrysanthemum-adjacent,) within a double ruled border, and with the titles within its own ruled area at upper left. Design is mirrored on the rear board. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Printed on laid paper, with initial capitals, typography and headers and footers designed by Massachusetts book illustrator and designer, WILL H. BRADLEY. Illustrated with photo reproductions of the lead actors from the play's first production commencing Sept. 1, 1898 at New York's Lyceum Theatre, starring American actress VIRGINIA HARNED as Lady Ursula (see in profile upon the half title page,) and her husband, E.H. SOTHERN in the role of Sir George Sylvester. The half title page is extensively INSCRIBED by E.H.S.(i.e. the actor Sothern) to the book's original owner, Francis Wilson, whose bookplate appears to front endpaper and in ink signature to ffep. Additionally, Sothern has signed two (the ego?!) of his stage photos within, one while dramatically hoisting a handkerchief in character as Sir George Sylvester, opposite the text of page 62, and another seen smoking a pipe thoughtfully, opposite page 30. Signed and inscribed to Wilson by the book's publisher, ROBERT HOWARD RUSSELL to the title page, dated Dec. 12, 1898. Recipient FRANCIS WILSON (b. Philadelphia 1854) began his acting career in comedy, appearing as part of the repertory of New York's Casino Theatre. He went on to found the Frank Wilson Comic Opera Company in 1899. The Internet Broadway Database list his participation in twenty shows (or revivals) over a period spanning 1886 to 1930; he would also become the first President of the Actor's Equity Association, serving from 1913-1920. **CONDITION: Very Good Plus. Boards are lightly rubbed, with a small scuff to rear board as seen. Cloth at head of spine has a 5/8 inch area of discoloration but remains sound and is not frayed. Small rubbing at foot of spine. Joints and hinges are in order. Endpapers lightly browned with a bit of offset opposite inscription. Light toning to text pages. ** A spirited and independently wealthy young Englishwoman makes a play for the attention of a reluctant bachelor in this story set in England's Augustan era, circa1720. Disguised as a man, Lady Ursula ambushes her neighbor Sir George Sylvester outside his mansion, in the hopes of winning a dare to be admitted to his home. Things grow complicated, however, when an imagined slight among the men prompts a duel. Shakespearian-level humor accompanies the case of mistaken identity in this romantic farce. This comedy in four acts was Hope's most successful drama, and was revived on Broadway in 1915. English Author ANTHONY HOPE [Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins] ( 1863-1933) trained as a barrister but found success primarily as a novelist and short story writer. He is perhaps best known for "The Prisoner of Zenda," and The Dolly Dialogues." Influential American graphic designer WILL H. BRADLEY (1868-1962) worked in Massachusetts and on commissions abroad around the turn of the century. *REF: IDBD, Broadway World, for notes and cast of the 1898 Lyceum Theater production, New York. On Will Bradley: Bambace A38. An impressive association copy for the thespian among us, perhaps. (AMJ). Will H. Bradley (cover and book design) (illustratore). Inscribed Association Copy. Book.…