Smith Harry B Bradley Will (2 results)

Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition, Octavo, gilt decorated green cloth over boards (primary binding), with untrimmed foreedge and gilt top edge. Collection of poems by Bradley, with illustrated title page. Binding and title page likely designed by Bradley (see Bambace), one of 200 copies. Very good, moderate wear including slight loss at the top edge of front cover. No dust jacket.…

First edition. First edition. Offered here are two original drawings as possible designs for the title page of this book, together with the original and inscribed first edition book for which the final Bradley illustrative designs were used. The book in original publisherís 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: ìTo H. I. Kimball Jr., with the compliments of Harry B. Smith, October, 1894. Together with two drawings by Will Bradley, who designed the final art for the title page, printed in red and black. The putative drawings by Bradley are: 1) a finely executed title page with a wonderful interpretive design of a butterfly with two long appendages extending downward, lettering of title in red, design work (blossoms) surrounding press and date at bottom, all in black ink, on folded 12mo sheet laid paper. The second is a smaller pencil rendering of the design in more cursory representation. Book is near fine, with brown stamped cover design, most likely by Bradley, as well. Extremely scarce and desirable Will Bradley conceptual design for a title page.…