1918-20 Writing and directing motion pictures independently. Production of _Moongold_, a Pierrot pantomime shot against black velvet, using properties but no sets, shown at the Criterion Theater in Times Square, New York. 1920 Back to Mr. Hearst as art and typography supervisor for Hearst magazines, newspapers, motion pictures, and the introduction, in _Cosmopolitan_, of many typographic innovations. 1923 Writes _Spoils_, a play in free verse for _Hearst’s International_. 1926 Restyles _Delineator_ and Sunday magazine section of New York _Herald Tribune_ (not _This Week_). 1927 Harper & Bros. publish _Launcelot and the Ladies_. 1930 Final, but far from inactive, retirement. 1931 Serves on AIGA “Fifty Books of the Year” jury; delivers address at exhibition opening, New York Public Library. 1950 Rounce and Coffin Club of Los Angeles award, October 28, for “Distinguished Contributions to Fine Printing,” at preview of Huntington Library exhibition, “Will Bradley: His Work.” 1953 New type ornaments (used at chapter-openings in the present book) designed for American Type Founders. 1954 Completion of a new paper specimen in Strathmore’s Distinguished Designers Series, almost sixty years after his first sample book for Strathmore. Introduced at University Club luncheon in New York, March 25. 1954 Award of gold medal by the American Institute of Graphic Arts at Annual meeting, May 19. “I have never known any guide other than what to me happened to look right.”--w. b. AN AFTERWORD Few names in the annals of American typography gleam as brightly as Will Bradley’s. Even fewer have made so varied a graphic contribution as this gentle man, now eighty-six and revered as dean of American typographers. In May, 1954, he was awarded the coveted gold medal of the American Institute of Graphic Arts. The citation, necessarily brief around the rim, recalled one phase of his accomplishments: “To Will Bradley for a half-century of typographic achievement.” A more revealing summary would be found in the commendation of the Rounce and Coffin Club award, presented at the Huntington Library in October, 1950. The Club held its special meeting to honor Mr. Bradley (then living in nearby Pasadena), and preview the Huntington retrospective Bradley exhibition, which included examples of his book design and illustration; articles and stories written; cover and poster design; type and type ornament for American Type Founders; and printing. Some seventy items were displayed, ranging from the Ishpeming (Michigan) _Iron Ore_ masthead, designed in 1886, to a Christmas greeting drawn in 1948.