Feb 05, 2013 - Sale 2302

Sale 2302 - Lot 20

Price Realized: $ 780
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
WILLIAM H. BRADLEY (1868-1962) THE CHAP - BOOK. 1895.
20x14 inches, 50 3/4x35 1/2 cm.
Condition A-: time-staining in image and margins. Framed.
The influence of Aubrey Beardsley in the "swirling lines [and] attention to ornamental detail" (Margolin p. 15) are apparent in this, Bradley's only black and white poster for the Chap Book. The black and white is also reminiscent of book designs by Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris (see the Kelmscott Chaucer), upon whose medieval-inspired work Bradley rested much of his style. Kiehl 16, DFP-I 155, Maitres pl. 136, Koch p. 66, Reims 1135, Virginia p. 54, Margolin p. 106.