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189717944Springfield MAss: The Wayside Press 1897. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Volume I number 1 through Volume II number 3. Volume I is tall thin 8vo. containing the four numbers of Volume I. Volume II is 4to. containing the three complete numbers of Volume II all published but for a fragmentary No. 4 not present here. Contemporary half morocco marbled paper boards. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers with cloth inner hinges. A compilation of stories and poetry richly illustrated throughout with reproductions of the work of Beardsley Morris Burne-Jones Parrish Toulouse-Lautrec and others by a master of the American Arts and Crafts Movement. Unfortunately in 1897 Bradley's health suffered; he had to sell the Wayside Press and was unable to complete the final number of volume II. Spines are significantly sunned and the leather and marbled paper are rubbed in places. A fine copy of the bound seven numbers; the leather of the binding is sunned on the spines and rear board of Volume II and the leather and paper are rubbed. Overall a nice copy in a very good binding. Scarce. The Wayside Press hardcover books
18945046Chicago: The Dial Press 1894. First edition. First edition. Original publisher's polished light brown buckram. Presentation Copy from the Author Harry Smith to H. I. Kimball cofounder of the famed Stone and Kimball Press in Chicago: "To H. I. Kimball Jr. with the compliments of Harry B. Smith October 1894. Together with three separate Autograph Letters Signed by Will Bradley to F. F. Browne American editor poet and literary critic who founded the literary journal The Dial. Over the years he had become close friends with John Muir John Burroughs Walt Whitman and other notable figures. All three ALS on ruled thin paper: 1 "Mr. F. F. Browne. Chicago. Dear Sir: Your postal received this morning. will send or bring sketches so you will get them tomorrow A.M. Hope circumstances will permit of Mr. Smith waiting to see them. Yours resp. Will H. Bradley Geurva Apr. 6 '94." 2 "Dear Mr. Brown Enclosed are two rough sketches. This work has been a blank with me as I have spoiled everything I have undertaken. I let your work go until to-day hoping my luck would change but it hasn't will come n and see you next week. Yours resp. Will H. Bradley Geurva Apr 7 '94." 3 "Mr F. F. Browne: "The Dial" Chicago. Dear Sir: Please consign to the waste basket the sketches I sent Saturday. have had better luck since sending them. and will call with finished drawing at about 10 to-morrow A.M. Yours resp. Will H. Bradley Geurva Apr. 9 '94." A fascinating story here as the book is listed in Bambace's "Will H. Bradley His Work" Item C1 but not declaratively done by Bradley. Herewith we provide these three letters verifying indeed Will Bradley supplied the drawing for the design to the title page in the book bearing a decidedly Will Bradley flair. A wonderful grouping marrying author artist and publisher. Book is near fine with brown stamped cover design most likely by Bradley full-page design on title page by Bradley top edges gilt others all uncut 149pp. The Dial Press unknown books
185321764n.p. 1853. 1 vols. Image 9-1/2 x 12 inches; attractively gilt-framed with lettered French mat 17-1/2 x 19-1/2 inches overall. 1 vols. Image 9-1/2 x 12 inches; attractively gilt-framed with lettered French mat 17-1/2 x 19-1/2 inches overall. Original Drawing of Mr. Verdant Green at Cricket. A popular Victorian literary character was Mr. Verdant Green an Oxford Freshman hero of several books written and illustrated by a Midland vicar Rev. Edward Bradley 1827-1889 under the pen-name of Cuthbert Bede. Bradley had learned wood-engraving from no less than George Cruikshank but as Houfe notes "remained very much the amateur illustrating his own books.and others in a jolly and careless style." He also drew for Punch and "was one of the first illustrators to satirise photography."<br/><br/>This drawing jolly and careless shows two sketches of the hapless freshman unsuccessfully defending a wicket--the drawings appear in more finished wood-engraved form on pages 100-101 of The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green-- and a more formal portrait done in the year in which The Adventures first appeared thus making it an Oxford literary and cricket item all in one. Houfe British Book Illustrators p. 230 unknown books
18964955Springfield: The Wayside Press 1896. First edition. First edition. Original printed prospectus 10 1/4 x 5 inches one uncut folded folio sheet making four pages. Lavishly illustrated/decorated front cover by Bradley with lettering in red printed in red and black with decorations and examples of the upcoming Volume One Number One. April 1896. Very fine with no signs of wear. An extremely scarce important record of the greatest short-running decorative American printings by one of the top American book illustrator and designers at the Turn of the Century. P. 202 Bambace. The Wayside Press unknown books
185937179London: Printed for Private Circulation by Taylor and Greening 1859. 1st edition NCBEL III 830 & 1083. PRESENTATION copy from the author INSCRIBED at the top of the t.p. 'Edward Bradley / from the author". Late 19th C. 3/4 blue morocco binding with marbled paper boards & eps. Elaborate gilt decorated spine. TEG. Modest binding wear at extremities. Bookplate. A handsome VG copy. 15 1 blank pp. Binder's blanks at rear of volume. 8vo. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2" <br/><br/>The notorious quarrel between two of England's most popular authors began with Yates' critical review in Town Talk of Thackeray's English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century. Thackeray as might be expected was a bit affronted at what he viewed as a slanderous insult by this fellow member of the Garrick Club; believing much of Yates' information came from club meetings he took his grievance to the club committee. The committee sided with Thackeray and instructed Yates to apologize; Yates refused & was forcibly barred from club premises subsequently bringing charges against the club Secretary. Dickens absent from London as this brouhaha was brewing returned to find all in full force. He offered to mediate though primarily siding with Yates which Thackeray viewed as treachery. The ill feelings between the two did not abate for years until shortly before Thackeray's death in 1863. Herein Yates recounts the history & evidence of the disagreement with not unexpectedly a bias to his own case. This copy presented to Edward Bradley presumed to be the Victorian novelist who wrote under the pen name Cuthbert M. Bede. Known in Wise facsimiles cf Todd 425c the first edition as here just twice at auction in the last 30 years the last being 1977. A rare piece of Dickensiana; the first time we've ever been able to offer the item. Printed for Private Circulation [by Taylor and Greening] hardcover books
1895WRCLIT64105Cleveland: The Burrows Brothers Company 1895. Large octavo. Linen and printed pictorial boards t.e.g. others untrimmed. Endsheets and margins foxed spine extremities darkened otherwise a very good copy. First edition thus. One of 600 numbered copies printed on handmade paper. Copiously illustrated and decorated with plates initials and decorative borders by Bradley. An ambitious and important Bradley production described by his bibliographer as "a masterly synthesis of Beardsley Ricketts and William Morris ideals" BAMBACE A9 The Burrows Brothers Company hardcover books
1861WRCAM53599Hampton Roads Va 1861. Pencil and wash sketch approximately 6 3/4 x 9 inches. Encapsulated. Upper left corner torn away obscuring manuscript ink annotation. Contemporary pencil annotation on verso. Light dust soiling and an occasional fox mark. About very good. A pencil sketch with watercolor shading depicting part of Fort Monroe Virginia drawn for potential publication in HARPER'S WEEKLY in October 1861 by Bradley S. Osbon freelance reporter and self-described "sailor of fortune" with his name signed on the lower left and on the verso. Osbon made several written and illustrated contributions to HARPER's WEEKLY including reporting on the construction of the ironclad Monitor also from Fort Monroe. The fort at the southern tip of the Virginia peninsula remained under Union control throughout the war and was used as prison for captured Confederate soldiers and as a refuge for fugitive slaves. unknown books
18991226088vo. New York: Frederick A. Stokes 1899. 8vo 96 pp. Gray paper. Original pictorial gray boards. Slight darkening to backstrip fine. § First edition of this classic of 1890s book design and illustration printed by Will Bradley hard to find in such good condition. The Turn of the Century #137: “this beautifully designed book unlike most of Bradley’s work has more than a tinge of the exotic as if admitting to a certain pictorial decadence parallel to the sophisticated disillusion of Crane’s verses.â€. BAL 4083. Frederick A. Stokes hardcover books
187037262Newark 1870. 2pp. 5" x 7-3/4." Entirely in ink manuscript on lined paper and signed "Joseph P. Bradley." Munsell's name above the salutation covers The previously written name of Bradley. Very Good. <br/><br/> Bradley a Rutgers graduate was a highly respected New Jersey lawyer specializing in railroad and patent litigation. President Grant nominated him to the United States Supreme Court in early 1870 and he took his seat in March. He served until 1891. His Letter transcribed in full words in capital letters are underlined in the original suggests that Munsell certainly earned his fee for publishing the book discussed here. The book was 'The Centennial Celebration of Rutgers College June 21 1870: With an Historical Discourse. Delivered by Hon. Joseph Bradley.' It was printed in Albany by Munsell in 1870. Bradley had a scholar's attention to detail and wanted Munsell's work to reflect precisely Bradley's thinking. <br/> "You did not quite understand one correction made by me on the title page. That thing which I originally called an APPENDIX we propose to call a NOTE and say nothing about it in the title page - occupying the same place as it now does - at the end; - but under the name of a note instead of that of an appendix. Hence. Then we propose to call the account of the Centennial Exercises - AN APPENDIX. Now you will see the meaning of my correction on the title page. Calling the account of the Centennial Exercise by the name of an appendix my name as author of the Address could properly come AFTER the word 'Appendix' as you suggest. It would be better if it could. Perhaps even now my name had better come after the word "1870" immediately before the words " with an Appendix." I agree with you that it is more usual to have the name of the author down there.<br/> "Yours truly Joseph P. Bradley. unknown books
189951352New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company 1899. First Edition. Octavo 21.5cm; black and gray illustrated paper-covered boards with title label at upper spine; 962pp; illus. Gentle sunning to spine and upper rear cover light wear to spine ends and board corners with minute board exposure to lower corners a few tiny stains to lower front cover and a tiny vintage booksellers ticket to lower rear pastedown; hinges sound and clean throughout; Very Good. <br/><br/>Attractive copy of this masterpiece of Art Nouveau book design and a key Will Bradley work. The title poem remains Crane's most searing indictment of war condensing the spirit of The Red Badge of Courage into a work of 32 lines. BAL 4083. Frederick A. Stokes Company unknown books
189522158Cleveland: Burrows Brothers 1895. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. cloth spine and decorated gray boards front cover lettered in red. Teg. Very good. 125 pages. 22 1/2 x 15 cm. A spectacular example of Arts and Crafts details and "more ambitious and successful than `When Hearts Are Trumps." Limited edition copy 107 of 600 printed by John Wilson on handmade laid paper. The type is Jenson in red and black with the former used for accents throughout. There are Kelmscott-style borders with the influence of Whistler Beardsley and Morris turned to Bradley's own use. BOMBACE A9. Interior contents clean and bright slight flaking to backstrip decorated end papers. Burrows Brothers hardcover books
1884213075London & Clifton: George Bell & Sons/J. Baker & Son 1884. Leather Bound. 204p. errata sheet bound-in preface dramatis personae bookplate of Masonic Library in DC withdrawn some unopened pages covers bowed-out soiling to covers and endpapers hinges sound first edition of both titles both later republished separately in white vellum boards with red titles and device top-edge-gilt. Katherine Harris Bradley 1846-1914 and her niece and ward Edith Emma Cooper 1862-1913 assumed the pen name Michael Field after writing under another set of names Arran and Isla Leigh. They lived openly as lovers. Bradley was associated with John Ruskin's utopian project Guild of St. George during her years at Cambridge. The couple died of cancer within eight months of each other. First publication under this pen name. George Bell & Sons/J. Baker & Son unknown books
18670539San Francisco: Towne & Bacon 1867. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 12mo. Author's first book of poetry. This copy is from the library of H. Bradley Martin a life long collector whose 10000-volume library was sold at Sotheby's in 1989 - 1990. 1081pp. Bound in green pictorial gilt cloth depicting a sail and mast. A fine bright copy housed within a custom clamshell with famed collector Bradley-Martin's bookplate mounted within the clamshell. A superb copy. <br/><br/> Towne & Bacon hardcover books
190058434New York: McClure Phillips & Co 1900. First edition 8vo pp. 321 1; frontispiece 66 illustrations from photographs; original pictorial yellow cloth stamped in red and blue on upper cover and spine; front hinge a little tender otherwise a very good bright copy. This copy with a presentation from Parsons: "Mrs. Thomas H. Baxter with the compliments of the author." Laid in is a two-page autograph letter signed from Parsons to Mrs. Baxter dated Feb. 7 1903 with the original mailing envelope which reads: "I have just obtained from the publishers a copy of my little book on China and take great pleasure in sending it to you . 'All the world's a stage' but the stage for the next world drama is I think the Orient and therefore it is interesting to study the players. At any rate this little book is a record of the most interesting experience that I ever expect to have." "Parsons . accepted the direction of a survey of some 1000 miles of railway in China primarily on the line from Hankow to Canton. The party passed through the then 'closed province' of Hu-nan and the success of the entire venture depended not alone on engineering skill but primarily upon the ability of the leader of the expedition to meet the extremely difficult diplomatic problems involved. Nevertheless the mission was accomplished and the small group of American engineers to the surprise of many of their friends returned in safety" DAB. That very same railroad line is still in use today. Parsons 1859-1932 founded Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc. one of the largest American civil engineering firms. He designed New York rapid transit subways the Cape Cod Canal and sat on the Isthmian Canal Commission. <br/><br/> McClure, Phillips & Co hardcover books
186129932London: Longman Green Longman and Roberts 1861. First edition 2 volumes in 1 thick 8vo pp. xxviii 371 1; xiv 358 2 ads; 3 maps 2 hand-colored 1 folding 8 chromolithographs and 61 woodcuts 8 on plates the balance in the text; attractive copy in original green diaper cloth lettered in gilt on spine. The Rev. Edward Bradley 1827-1889 writing under the name of Cuthbert Bede wrote this extensive history and guide to the peninsula in the west of Scotland. The illustrations are made from sketches and watercolors by the author. <br/><br/> Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts hardcover books
18945127Chicopee Falls: Overman Wheel Company 1894. First edition. First edition. 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches 36pp. Original glossy and embossed light blue card wrappers with bold gilt stamped design leaving the light and darker blue background in relief by Will Bradley. Elaborately designed title page by Will Bradley who has also supplied borders and embellishments throughout. Fine. Overman Wheel Company unknown books
181512358Windsor Vermont: Printed by Oliver Farnsworth 1815. First Edition. 1 vols. Small Square 8vo. Wonderful original printed steel blue paper over wooden boards. Spine nearly gone wear to boards but internally good with some darkening and mostly marginal dampstaining. In pale blue-green cloth case with black spine label gilt. First Edition. 1 vols. Small Square 8vo. In referring to Bradley's "An Improved Spelling Book" similar in format to this one and published the same year Nietz informs us that "this book was different from many others in several respects. First Bradley frankly acknowledged that 'the extracts have been taken from Webster Wood Picket Alden Bingham Flint Murray Hubbard Fordyce Walker the American Gentleman's Pronouncing Dictionary Dr. Johnson Dr. Morse and Dr. Blair all authors of spellers.' A second different feature was that all of the content other than the spelling words was presented in catechetical form" Nietz. McCorison Vermont Imprints #1717; American Imprints 34198; Not in Welch; Nietz Old Textbooks p. 20 Printed by Oliver Farnsworth unknown books
18737488baX2Philadelphia PA: T. B. Peterson and Brothers 1873. Book. Very good- condition. Hardcover. Americana; Pennslyvania; photography; 419 pages; 19.6cm; original blind stamped cloth binding rebacked by Corey; original spine laid on; gilt decoration; corners bumped; edges rubbed; illustrations listed pages 23-4; owner marks. Alumnus of Dickinson College and member D of the U. S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. T. B. Peterson and Brothers Hardcover books
1887WRCLIT64161London & Clifton: George Bell & Sons / J. Baker & Son 1887. Original stiff cream parchment printed in red t.e.g. Date of publication written in ink beneath the title-page imprint parchment a bit bowed as usual with short cracks at crowns and toes of joints otherwise an unusually nice copy near fine in plain tissue dust jacket possibly original but with some small chips and edge tears. First edition of this relatively early volume - two plays - by the pseudonymous collaborators. The first book by "Michael Field" appeared in 1884. With several small publishers' advertisements laid-in including a Matthews and Lane leaf for books by "Michael Field." From the collection of Herbert Boyce Satcher with his book label. Herbert Boyce Satcher vicar of St. Aidan's parish Cheltenham PA 1924-1958 and authority on church music built an estimable collection of books on subjects both sacred and secular among the latter an extensive collection of the works of the Uranian poets and their fellow travelers. NCBEL III:626. COLBECK I:247. George Bell & Sons / J. Baker & Son unknown books
1896218368Boston: Little Brown 1896. First. hardcover. very good-. x 186 pages. Short 8vo gilt-lettered green cloth. Boston: Little Brown 1896. First Edition. Pages are toned and with small dents to margins on some pages otherwise very good.<br/><br/> Author was a leading Boston lawyer and later a professor at Harvard Law School. ".Thayer's reputation rests on his work in constitutional law and in the law of evidence. On both subjects he became recognized as the leading scholar in the United States." Dictionary of American Biography Vol. XVIII p. 406.<br/><br/> Little Brown unknown books
18972666<p>Chicago: Way & Williams 1897. First edition. A beautiful copy in the original black pictorial cloth. Front rear and spine panels stamped in red and yellow TEG other edges untrimmed. First edition first printing. Anatomy of Wonder 1976 2-160; 1981 1-70; 1987 1-97; and 1995 1-97. Bleiler 1978 p. 203. A near fine copy.</p> Way & Williams hardcover books
1896300587New York: David Bradley 1896. First. pamphlet. very good. Many illustrations in black & white of the harbors in and around New York. Slim 4to 56 pages 16 page supplement with advertisements some pages with small faint folds red cloth wrappers with decorative gold type. New York: David Bradley 1896. First Edition. A very good copy of this scarce title.<br/><br/> David Bradley unknown books
1853008024London: Nathaniel Cooke 1853. Book. Very good condition. Hardcover. Second edition. Octavo 8vo. Two volumes bound together. Verdant Green: stated 2nd edition; iv 118 pages of text containing numerous in-text illustrations. Yankee Humour: stated 2nd edition; iv iv 115 pages of text containing eight black & white plates including frontis and engraved half-title. Half leather binding rubbed and worn but intact and attractive; lacks one of two spine labels. Minor foxing scattered throughout text. Humor. Nathaniel Cooke Hardcover books
1893WRCLIT64163London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the Bodley Head 1893. 83-482141pp. Large octavo. Medium green cloth lettered in red. Cloth a bit soiled and edgeworn one corner bumped otherwise a good copy with the bookplates of William S. Argent and Herbert Boyce Satcher. First edition public issue. One of 120 copies bound thus. The implication of both the authors' note and the physical make-up of the book is that the sheets less the publisher's prelims a substantial errata the 'Note' and the adverts are from an edition "roughly printed for our own and the actors' use." The text of the play was considerably revised when republished in 1918. Laid-in is a printed announcement for a production of "A Question of Memory" to take place at the "Opera Comique Strand W.C." under the direction of J.T. Grein on 27 October 1893 a bit stained along lower margin. COLBECK I:248. NCBEL III:626. NELSON 66. Elkin Mathews and John Lane at the Bodley Head hardcover books
18973382<p>Frederick A. Stokes Co. New York 1897<b> IN THE ORIGINAL LINEN DUST WRAPPER WITH LETTERING AND DECORATION BY BRADLEY </b>An octavo bound in the original rust colored cloth with a beautiful heavily gilt cover design by Bradley. The book is fine with no wear and the gilt clean bright and unworn. New endleaves with appropriate paper done at some point in the past. The paper backed linen dust-wrapper has wear and tear internally at the folds and is soiled with some darkening to the spine. Gilt titling and decoration by Bradley on the dustwrapper is bright and unworn. Very scarce and a nice example of the early cloth dust wrapper. Illustrated by Madeleine Lemaire.</p> Frederick A. Stokes, Co. hardcover books
