BRADLEY, SKETCH BOOK, 1900, Original Drawings, Japonisme, Connecticut Artist

Manuscript sketchbook of original drawings in pencil, ink, and watercolor by John S. Bradley, Jr. of New Haven, Connecticut, dated January 13, 1900. Illustrated with Japanese-influenced graphic designs, botanicals, landscapes, and figure studies on paper leaves, followed by blank leaves. Bound in contemporary marbled boards with later paper dust jacket or outer paper wrapper bearing a hand-painted cover design.

Moderately worn; paper jacket torn and chipped with paper losses revealing underlying marbled boards; spine cloth chipped; light occasional toning to interior leaves; back section of text block blank.