Item #8184 Poster Album. Will Bradley.
Poster Album.
Poster Album.
Poster Album.
Poster Album.
Poster Album.
Poster Album.
Poster Album.
Poster Album.
Poster Album.
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Poster Album.

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[Bradley, Will, et al., illus.]

Poster Album.

Cincinnati, New York, Chicago, etc: The Ault & Wiborg Co., 1902. 4to, original tan cloth, decorative title device printed in white on upper cover. Title leaf, 1 p. text, 62 full page illustrations, most chromolithographic, some with additional advertising text and designs in black and white or color on the versos. One illustration in duplicate. CONDITION: Very good, light wear to extremities and some light soiling to covers.

A tour de force of American graphic design demonstrating the effects achievable with Ault & Wiborg inks—and showcasing American poster art at the turn of the century.

This stunning compendium of color advertisements (effectively small scale poster designs) for the Ault & Wiborg Co., “manufacturers of lithographic & letter press printing inks,” includes, most notably, twenty designs by celebrated poster artist Will Bradley in both the Art Nouveau and the Arts & Crafts styles, many of which originally appeared in the Inland Printer. The volume also includes many other vivid and attractive designs by Louis Rhead, Edward Liggett, Carolyn Huntington, Frank Swick, and others. All of these advertisements appeared in periodicals between 1895 and 1902. Much coveted by collectors of turn-of-the-century American poster art and aficionados of color printing, examples of this book are increasingly scarce on the market, many copies having been broken up over the years.

Will Bradley (1868–1962), dubbed the “Dean of American Designers” by The Saturday Evening Post, was a prolific and influential graphic designer and a central figure in the development of American poster art. His first poster for the Cincinnati-based Ault & Wiborg company was commissioned in 1895, the same year that he founded the Wayside Press in Springfield, Massachusetts, through which he began publishing his short-lived but highly successful monthly Bradley: His Book. Bradley was later active in film as well, writing and producing several films in the 1920s. In 1954 he was awarded the prestigious American Institute of Graphic Arts medal, and remained active as a designer until his death.

Item #8184

Price: $4,500.00

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