?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
WILLLIAM H. BRADLEY (1868-1962)
THE CHAP - BOOK. 1894.
19 1/2x14 inches, 49 1/2x35 1/2 cm. Condition A-: minor foxing in image; faint collection ink stamp in bottom left corner. Matted and framed.
Bradley's first poster ever, and first of many Chap Book posters (Koch p. 36), from August 1894. Although justifiable comparisons to Beardsley have been made, Charles Hiatt (author of Picture Posters, 1895, and prominent critic and early authority on posters) stated it best: "He has seen and assimilated, in no small degree, the manner of Mr. Aubrey Beardsley. He is however, a great deal more than a mere imitator; what he has borrowed, he has borrowed with conspicuous intelligence, and nobody could for a moment accuse him of anything approaching petty larceny" (Picture Posters p. 298). Kiehl p. 16, DFP-I 152, Koch p. 22, Reims 1139, Virginia p. 23, Margolin p. 26 and 97, Keay p. 41, Met 1984.1202.8, Bradley I.
