2 Ladies Home Journal/ Jan 1916 & Sept 1899/Covers by W J Aylward & S Werner

#1) The New Ladies Home Journal,  January 1916 , The Curtis Publishing Company. Cover illustration (image 2) by W. J. Aylward (1875-1956), painter and illustrator for many publications (e.g. Harper's Weekly) and books (e.g. Jack London, Jules Verne). He was a member of the Brandywine School and student of Howard Pyle.   This is a terrific issue with many illustrations including image 3 by William Ladd Taylor (1854-1926) who combined his Victorian sentiments with attention to detail and design of the Arts and Crafts Movement in his illustrations. Taylor preceded N. C. Wyeth and Norman Rockwell, who, along with Maxfield Parrish were all part of Curtis Publishing's stable of artists. Taylor studied at Art Student's League, NY and before establishing a small studio in Boston. He became a member of the Boston Art Club, the Society of Illustrators (in 1905) and the Copley Society (in 1907). Taylor illustrated scenes from the Old and New Testament such the image shown here - "And she wrapped him in swaddling clothes...". There are great ads including the Willys-Overland (image 1), the Buick (image 4) and Ivory Soap (image 5).  64 pages, cover soiling, small chips and tears around the edges of the cover, old address label on upper left, interiors are bright and clean. Dimensions: 16 1/2 x 11 inches.

#2) The Ladies’ Home Journal, September 1899 published by Curtis Publishing Company, 38 pages + cover, tabloid, cover illustration by S. Werner, illustrator for numerous magazines – Saturday Evening Post, Harper’s Weekly, Youth’s Companion as well as the Ladies Home Journal.  Many editorials, stories, articles and advertisements - for example, Nature's Garden by Neltje Blanchan, (image 8), The Dauphin's Swiss by Mrs. H. P. Kane (image 9), and many great old ads (image 10). Conditions: old address label on cover, tears and bumps in the spine and staple area, tear on back cover edge (image 7), pages 17/18 and 19/20 have two tear the entire cross length of the pages, otherwise in very good condition. Dimensions: 16 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches. (2) Payment by PayPal. We make every effort to describe our offerings as thoroughly as possible. We are happy to answer questions, but caution bidders that all items are sold "as is", unless they are clearly not as described.