At Bromer Booksellers, we focus on the visual book, with fine images that both enhance narrative and stand alone as independent creations. Among our holdings in this area are costume books, emblem books, examples from the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods, the fantasy illustrators in the tradition of Arthur Rackham, and modern books with original graphics. We look for the successful fusion of picture with text from any century, any country, and across a variety of artistic movements and media. We are especially fascinated with books of other cultures, and you will occasionally find items such as Japanese illustrated woodblock books and Eskimo tales without words ...
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(New Haven): Gillett Good Griffin, 1951. Oblong 16mo. (16)ff. Unknown limitation. Printed as Griffin's dissertation for his BFA from Yale. Cleverly illustrated with the mouse's adventures integrated into the book's typography, including a cut doorway on the front flyleaf that opens to reveal the mouse on the title page. The..... More
Wales: Gwasg Gregynog, 2003. Quarto. xv, (3), 99pp. One of 215 copies. Van Niekerk's wood engravings throughout, including frontispiece portrait of Herbert and a rendering of the Vitruvian Man on the whole of page 36. Edited, with introduction and notes, by The Earl of Powis. Bound in quarter-leather by Alan..... More
Lond Crendon, Bucks: Seven Acres Press, 1926. Quarto. 45pp. One of 600 copies. Signed by Haberly, and from the library of Haberly's wife, Virginia, with her bookplate to the front free endpaper. The second book of the Press. Illustrated throughout by Haberly with fantastical illustrations of beasts real, like the..... More
Paris: Moreau, (1983). Oblong 12mo. (26) pp. Illustrated by Baltazar. From an edition of 220 copies, this is one of forty signed by the author and by the illustrator, and hand-colored. Reproduced entirely by serigraphy, the text is from the author's own manuscript. The abstract black and white illustrations have..... More
(Lexington, KY: Anvil Press, 1979). Quarto. (12)pp., (37)ff. One of 50 copies printed in American Uncial on Canson paper. A compilation of 36 plates printed from blocks cut or engraved by Victor Hammer. Several plates are hand-colored and all are tipped-in. Book compiled and designed by Carolyn R. Hammer and..... More
London: J. Harris, 1806. 32mo. (16)ff. First edition, Moon's fourth state with 1806 date on front wrapper, but with SMC initials on the earliest-state engraved dedication page. Illustrated with fifteen hand-colored copperplate engravings. According to Moon, this is the most significant children's book published by Harris, and surely one of..... More
Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883. Octavo. First edition of the second Uncle Remus collection of stories. Widely illustrated with scenes from the familiar tales, including images of Brother Fox, Brother Bear, and Brother Rabbit. Bound in full yellow cloth elaborately stamped in black and with the title in..... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1892. Octavo. First edition of Harris's third collection of Uncle Remus stories. Illustrated with twelve plates, including a frontispiece, by popular illustrator and comics artist A. B. Frost. Replete with the well-known moralizing short stories and jolly songs. Bound in green cloth decorated in black..... More
London: Rainbow Press, 1975. First edition. One of 150 copies signed by the author. With full page two-color illustrations by Barrie Cooke. Handsomely printed early limited edition prints eight poems thematically related to Heaney's poetic pursuit of the archaeology of Ireland's violent past. These poems were published a month ahead..... More
Dublin: Hieroglyph Editions Ltd, 1991. First edition. From an edition of 100 copies, this is one of 60 that were offered for sale. Illustrated with four lithographs by Felim Egan, who designed the book. Signed by Heaney and Egan. This is the first separate appearance of twelve poems from the..... More
(Vancouver): Heavenly Monkey, 2007. Quarto. (5)ff. One of fifty copies signed by the contemporary Canadian artist Charles van Sandwyk. With six tipped-in plates, five of which are from the artist's earliest etchings, and one etching executed for this work. A brief essay about etching by van Sandwyk accompanies the artwork..... More
(Vancouver, BC): Heavenly Monkey, 2011. Quarto. 96pp. One of thirty copies, signed by the author/illustrator, Jim Westergard. Illustrated with forty wood engravings immortalizing infamous people, ranging from well-known oddballs such as Lizzie Borden and Hunter Thompson, to more obscure characters, including the tenth-century Icelandic poet Gunnlaug Wormtongue, who was known..... More
Boston: Heron Press, 1969. Octavo. (47)pp. One of 150 copies. Five illustrations in wood and metal by Chandler, printed on near-translucent tan paper. Introduction by Thomas Heffernan. Bound in cloth-backed marbled boards. Very fine. More
Boston: Heron Press, 1989. Folio. 33pp., unbound, as issued. From an edition of 115 copies, this is one of fifteen printed on handmade paper, with an extra etching laid in, and signed by Chandler and Lewis. Illustrated with eight etchings by Chandler, one of which is a double-page fold-out. The..... More
New Haven, CT: Jonathan Edwards College Press, 1974. Small quarto. (x), 13pp. One of 100 copies. Wood-engraved color frontispiece and textual diagram by Lance Hidy, elucidating Edwards' pronounced awe of spiders. Bound in black cloth over boards with paper spine label. Fine. More
(Boston: Godine Press, c. 1970). Framed etching measuring 11 by 8 inches. One of an unknown number of copies; the edition was probably no greater than 200. An image of an early flying machine crashed and abandoned in a field of clover, printed in green with a caption printed in..... More
Franklin, NH: Hillside Press, 1968. xi, 42pp. One of 250 copies. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts replicated from seventeenth-century originals. Very fine in gilt-stamped black morocco. (2 5/16 by 2; 58x51mm). More
Buffalo: Hillside Press, 1978. 50pp. One of 250 copies. A version of the Arabian nights, illustrated in black & white. Fine in olive green cloth. (2 1/4 by 2; 59x49mm). More
Rijswijk, Netherlands: Gentenaar & Torley, 1998. Oblong small quarto. 255pp. Together with a smaller "child" book containing seventeen artistic paper samples, measuring 2 3/4 inches square, nested within the center of the "parent" book. Published on the occasion of the second Holland Paper Biennial in the Rijswijk Museum in 1998..... More
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2006. Octavo. x, 80pp., + (5)ff. of paper specimens. One of 300 copies. Also illustrated with reproductions of photographs of Seymour and company activities, as well as various examples of correspondence. Printed at the Manoutios Press in Athens. Quarter bound by Vassilis Kypreos in..... More
Manchester: Manchester Metropolitan University, 2008. Folio. 79pp. One of 250 printed in softback at Northend Creative Print in Sheffield. Vibrantly illustrated with various papers from the collection from a variety of locations and eras. Preface by Colin Harris and Foreword by Mirjam Foot. Covers replicate marbled paper from Tirzah (Garwood)..... More
London: Orlando Hodgson, (c. 1840). 16mo. 6ff., + wrappers. Each leaf presents the reader with a half-page illustration of activities suitable for the time of day described in the verse below them. The images are hand-colored in a variety of shades, giving them uncommon depth. The book weaves counting from..... More
North Hatfield, MA; NY: Pennyroyal Caxton Press, 1999. Two folio volumes. 117, 244pp. One of 400 copies designed and heavily illustrated by Barry Moser, with 262 original "relief engravings" throughout. Signed by Moser. The watermarks were also designed by Moser, based on sixteenth-century French marques du papier, featuring a pomegranate..... More
1998. Relief engraving. Donald Hall, who served as 14th Poet Laureate of the United States from 2006-2007 and to whom this copy is inscribed, was the model for Ecclesiastes. Signed by the artist. AP. Framed. (17 1/2 by 12 1/2 in.). More
(Paris: Perrigot-Masure, c. 1922). Framed sheet of handmade paper with a chiaroscuro watermark portrait of Dard Hunter as a young man, based on a photograph by Clara Ragna Johnson. To the left, his name is lettered in the style characteristic of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Sheets of this handmade..... More
