Advice on Marriage

Brooklyn: Tice-Cunningham Press, 1925. One of fifty copies. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo. (14)ff. Franklin's sagacious cares and cautions on marriage are rendered in a series of engraved plates, designed, etched, and colored by Tice and then engraved and printed by Harry Cunningham. Tice's erotic images evoke the sensuousness of the Aubrey Beardsley, creating a more seductive milieu than otherwise apparent in her fellow illustrators in big magazines - Georges Barbier, in particular, comes to mind. So provocative were Tice's designs, that in 1915 the Postal Inspector Anthony Comstock, for whom the Comstock Act was named, attempted to confiscate her artwork. Her work was featured in periodicals as large as Vanity Fair and as avant-garde as the Dada magazine The Blind Man. Cunningham was Tice's husband. Bound in full orange morocco over boards with titling and turn-ins in gilt. Edges of boards modestly toned, some rubbing to extremities, else very good. With the bookplate of Cornelius Carl Sampson, an African-American educator who played a significant role in the court case Cisneros v. Corpus Christi ISD, which extended school integration to include Hispanic Americans.