Bachelor Belles (1908) by Illustrator-Harrison Fisher; Illustrator-Theodore B. Hapgood - 2009-02-06

Dodd, Mead and Company, New York, 1907-01-01. Hardcover. Good.

New York: Dodd, Mead, & Company, 1913. 1st edition. Nice copy. folio. hardback in decorated cloth c.60pp., colour frontis., colour plates, ÔAmerican illustrator who created over 80 covers of the 'Saturday Evening Post' and created almost every cover for 'Cosmopolitan' magazine from 1913 until his death in 1934. He painted beautiful women who were thought to capture the essence of the American woman of the early 20th century.Õ Light wear to boards & colour illustration tipped onto front board; two loose plates o/w a nice copy with all 16 plates present and in near fine condition. The binding is tight and square

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1908. 1st edition. Nice copy. large octavo. hardback in decorated cloth c.120pp., col. frontis., colour plates, Nice copy with all plates present and in near fine condition. The binding is tight and square

Dodd, Mead & Co, New York 1914. 31.0 x 22.0cms, unpaginated, 9 tipped in illusts, clean but fragile hardcover with chip at base of spine This book has poems by Shakespeare Thomas Moore and lesser lights. Some of the tipped in Fisher plates are of close portrait studies of Edwardian beauties while others show the women in scenes (eg travelling on a cruiser, playing a piano, motoring, receiving roses).

Dodd, Mead & Co, New York 1912. 33.0 x 23.0cms, unpaginated, 13 tipped in illusts, clean but fragile hardcover with 2 loose pages and split spine) This book has 40+ poems by Shakespeare, Tennyson, Hood Herrick, Leigh Hunt and lesser lights. most of the tipped in Fisher plates are of close portrait studies of Edwardian beauties although several of them show the women in scenes (eg attendants dressing a bride for her wedding).