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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1924. On paper measuring 6 1/4 by 5 3/8 inches (159x137mm), mounted to a bifolium sheet. One of six copies signed by Gill in graphite at the lower corner. This is one of eight of Gill's delicate white line engravings that is featured in Enid Clay's Sonnets and Verses, published... More about Flower-Piece
(1924). Intaglio print. Initialed by the artist, Eric Gill. This intaglio print "Leda" is a design for the engraving on copper of the same name. In it, a naked Leda is seated on the grass, wrapped in an amorous embrace with Zeus, in the form of a swan. The bird's... More about Leda
(c. 1927). Pen and ink on paper, measuring 8 by 2 3/4 inches, matted and framed. This is Gill's design for a border that appears three times in the Golden Cockerel Press edition of Troilus and Criseyde, and it shows Chaucer sitting in a tree writing "Troilus" in a book... More about Original pen and ink drawing for Troilus and Criseyde
London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1938. Octavo. xiv, (24)pp. One of 550 copies signed by Eric Gill and printed by Hague & Gill. Illustrated with four full page wood engravings by Gill. Slight bumping to foot of spine and corners, else a near fine copy in black cloth... More about The Holy Sonnets of John Donne
Capel-y-ffin, Abergavenny: Francis Walterson, 1927. Octavo. (vii), 46pp. One of 200 copies printed at the Shakespeare Head Press for Francis Walterson, signed by both Eric Gill and David Jones. This was the only book to be issued signed by the two. Illustrated with a frontispiece engraved by David Jones titled... More about Christianity and Art
London: Jonathan Cape, 1931. Octavo. viii, 200pp. Illustrated with ten wood engravings by Eric Gill: three full-page, five half-page, and an ornamental device. Spine faded, else very good in green cloth. Laid in is a silhouette woodcut, signed by Gill, titled "Dumb-Driven Cattle." First produced in 1915, the woodcut was... More about Clothes. An Essay Upon the Nature and Significance of the Natural and Artificial Integuments Worn...
London: Sheed & Ward, (1931). Octavo. iv, 121 pp. First edition. One of 500 copies signed by Eric Gill and Rene Hague and printed by Hague & Gill. This is a presentation copy, inscribed on the colophon. Illustrated with twenty-five figures, including ten type specimens and four illustrations from wood... More about An Essay on Typography
(Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1929). 32mo. (5)pp. With a cover illustration, dragon headpiece, and four square vignettes by Eric Gill, depicting a child's encounter with night-time fears. In this poem by Press founder Hilary Pepler, a boy asks his nurse if dragons, ghosts, and goblins exist as he is tucked... More about Concerning Dragons
London: Gogmagog Press, (1965-66). Four small octavo volumes, each (26)pp. One of 100 copies printed on Hosho paper, signed by the artist/printer Morris Cox. Each volume contains a colorful panorama of nature printed from heavily textured blocks, which give the offset prints an embossed effect. The changing seasons appear in... More about The Four Seasons. An Impression of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter: a Landscape Panorama
Berkeley, CA: Pacific Film Archive, 1973. Broadside measuring 24 by 18 1/4 inches. One of 500 copies. Designed by California artist David Lance Goines and printed in 10 colors, this advertisement for a film series at the Pacific Film Archive features an image of Veronica, daughter of Solome, who took... More about "Images Médiévales"
Oakland, CA: Karl Kardel Co., 1974. Broadside measuring 24 by 18 1/4 inches. One of 1,850 copies. Designed by California artist David Lance Goines and printed in 8 colors, this advertisement for Karl Kardel Co. features a bumblebee over an ochre background. The design was inspired by an unknown philosopher's... More about "Karl Kardel Co.: Builders, Painters, Decorators"
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1926. Small quarto. 15pp. One of 250 numbered copies. The text is illustrated with six wood engravings by Eric Gill. The engravings are beautifully rendered interpretations of scenes from the last day of Jesus's life, from his vigil at the Garden of Gethsemane, to... More about Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi: Being the 26th and 27th Chapters of Saint Matthew's Gospel...
(London): Golden Cockerel Press, 1945. Quarto. 92pp. One of 500 copies. Six engravings by Webb, illustrating various military exploits and battles recounted in the text. The original work, titled Gesta Francorum et Aliorum Hierosolimitanorum, was the diary of a cavalry officer in Asia Minor, Syria, and Palestine. The original mauscript... More about The First Crusade. The Deeds of the Franks and Other Jerusalemites
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. Octavo. (vii), 18, (i)pp. Two full-page woodcuts by Eric Gill, plus a title-page device. This is Gill's own copy, with his bookplate on the front paste-down. Bound in orange cloth over boards, with orignal orange-printed dust wrapper. Spines of wrapper and binding show... More about Art & Prudence. An Essay
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1931. Narrow octavo. 18pp. One of 500 copies printed on handmade paper, with four plates from wood engravings by Eric Gill. The page is twice as high as it is broad, and its "double-opening" is consequently square. A fine copy in scarlet buckram with... More about Clothing Without Cloth. An Essay on the Nude
(London): Golden Cockerel Press, 1934. Tall octavo. (16)pp. One of 500 numbered copies. Illustrated with one full-page wood engraving and a four-line initial capital by Gill. This edition of Gill's "sermon," reflecting on the 136th Psalm, marks the first use of Gill's Perpetua Roman and Felicity Italic typefaces. Bound in... More about The Lord's Song
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1952. Tall quarto. 80pp. From an edition of 360 copies, this is one of 60 deluxe copies, signed by the artist, John Buckland Wright, and the author, Phyllis Hartnoll. Illustrated by Buckland Wright with eight aquatints, printed from the copper plates. Only the deluxe copies had... More about The Grecian Enchanted
(Waltham Saint Lawrence): Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. Quarto. 101pp. One of 500 copies. Illustrated with wood engravings and all but two initial capitals by Robert Gibbings. The remaining two capitals—“Lamia” on the title page and “IT” on page 18—were engraved by Eric Gill. A fine copy of what the Press..... More about Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of Saint Agnes & Other Poems
London: Golden Cockerel Press, (1939). Small quarto. 28pp. One of 100 copies printed on handmade paper and bound in full blind-stamped mustard morocco. The eighteen copper-engravings by John Buckland-Wright took two years to produce, and were inspired by the Roman sarcophagi in the Louvre. These were produced using a sugar... More about The Vigil of Venus: Pervigilium Veneris
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1931. Octavo. 66pp. One of 500 copies, signed by Powys. Five intertextual wood engravings by Nash. Backed in blue morocco with pattered paper covers. Spine somewhat sunned, faint edgewear, else near fine. (Chanticleer 76). More about When Thou Wast Naked
(Waltham St. Lawrence): Golden Cockerel Press, 1931. Quarto. 269pp. One of 500 copies, printed in Golden Cockerel type on Batchelor handmade paper. With sixty-five illustrations from wood engravings by Eric Gill. This work stands as the crowning achievement of the Golden Cockerel Press, as well as Gill’s finest work as... More about The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ. According to the Authorized Version of the King James...
(London): Golden Cockerel Press, 1948. Tall octavo. 28pp. From an edition of 750, this is one of 100 copies specially bound and with an extra engraving. The twelve engravings by John Buckland Wright, with their supple lines and rich settings, perfectly complement Swinburne’s long erotic poem. In full sienna morocco... More about Laus Veneris
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1932. Octavo. 67pp. One of 200 copies. Signed by the engraver, Ravilious, as well as all the authors, among whom are G. B. Stern, Norah Hoult, Elizabeth Bowen, and Malachi Whitaker. Ravilious' frontispiece shows nine figures of distinct garb and flair, playing a game... More about Consequences. A Complete Story in the Manner of the Old Parlour Game in Nine Chapters, Each by a...
(London): Goode Bros. c. 1875. (47)pp. Illustrated throughout with black & white lithographs, this little book includes excerpts from several Old Testament stories. In dark violet gilt-stamped wrappers. An unusually fine copy. (Bondy 162). (2 1/4 by 1 5/8; 58x40mm.). More about The Illustrated Bible; also Verses entitled Railway to Heaven
Boston: Bromer Booksellers, 1996. Small quarto. 26 pp. From an edition of 2,000 copies, this is one of 200 copies signed and numbered by Edward Gorey. Bromer special holiday catalog with previously unpublished, full-color cover design by Gorey, who created the artwork originally for a Nieman Marcus holiday catalogue. When... More about Season's Greetings 1996 Bromer Booksellers
