Fringilla, or Tales in Verse. With Sundry Decorative Picturings by Will H. Bradley.
Cleveland: Burrows Brothers Co., 1895. Will Bradley. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Item #45945
Large 8vo. Pp. 129. Tan buckram over blue paper boards with design by Bradley in black to the front board, with red and black lettering to the rear board. Gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt. First edition thus. A British edition was also printed in 1895 by Elkin Mathews with illustrations by Louis Fairfax Muckley. Edition of 600 copies on hand-made paper, this is No. 138. Designed by Will Bradley and illustrated with plates, decorative borders and illustration accented endpapers. The spine is darkened and soiled, with light bumping and rubbing to the ends, rear board with a couple small stains, the corners and edges are worn, particularly the bottom, with the paper chipped in several places, first and last few leaves including endpapers are foxed, with sporadic foxing to the margins throughout, with a fairly faint water stain to the lower gutter of the first and last few leaves. Not the best copy, but still pretty good, and an important Will Bradley production. Bambace A9.
Price (CAD): $850.00