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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NY: Lansha Studios, (c. 1922-1934). This collection contains 128 individual pencil designs and 51 photographs of manufactured fixtures used to create department store window and floor displays. The bulk of the designs were made for Lansha Studios, a New York firm established by Lionel Schacht and Eugene P. Lanfranchi as..... More
(Kansas City: Grafik Archive, 2000). Octavo. 39ff., frenchfold. One of 300 copies. This edition was printed for a Danish exhibit of Orosz's work. The Hungarian-born poster artist combines Escher-like graphics with classical influences, evident in this collection of his theater and political posters, and etchings. Small envelopes and glassine bags..... More
Darmstadt and Hamburg: Otto Rohse Presse, 1981. Small quarto. 38pp. One of 300 copies. Signed by the artist. Printed and illustrated with eleven wood-engravings by Rohse, one of Germany's contemporary fine printers. The text tells about an earthquake in Chile. Bottom right corner of the front cover rubbed, else a...... More
Stamford, CT: Overbrook Press, (1936). Folio. One of twenty copies. Six color engravings illustrating Oscar Wilde's text, each signed by the artist and mounted on a 13 by 10-inch off-white matte. This suite of prints comprises the full set of the engravings that appeared in the edition of the book..... More
Stamford, CT: Overbrook Press, 1958. Illustrated in color by T. M. Cleland, who printed the images in each copy using the silk screen method. Laid in is a note on the manner of the book’s design and printing, including an explanation of the illustration process. Roderick Cave cites this as..... More
San Francisco & Berkeley: Pacific Editions & Arif Press, 1986. Quarto. 36pp. One of 165 copies, signed by the author and artist. "A collaboration among artists," this work contains four essays by Dr. Lewis Thomas, each accompanied by a specially commissioned color etching by Joseph Goldyne, plus one additional etching..... More
Lausanne: F. Payot; Vevey, Loertscher and Jacot-Guillarmod, (1889). Oblong octavo. (24) ff. A panorama which opens out to show a colorful wedding procession of musicians, vintners, farmworkers, and costumed villagers. The Roman goddesses of the harvest, Ceres and Pales, follow their attendants in ox-drawn chariots, and Bacchus' chariot is pulled..... More
Madrid: A. Fortuny, (1883). An extensive panorama stretching across forty pages, which folds out to show the royal procession making its way from the Royal Basilica of Atocha to the Palace on the wedding day of the King of Spain, Alfonso XII, and his second wife, Maria Christina of Austria..... More
Cleveland, OH: Ideal Printing and Lithography Company, 1923. Octavo. An impressive sample book featuring lithograph designs for commercial box covers. All showcase an impressive color palette and most an eye for portraiture, with the majority of the samples showcasing the faces of women laid over patterned backgrounds. Other designs offer..... More
Milan: Edizioni Culturali Della Rivista, 1954. Small octavo. (46)pp. One of 650 copies. A history and manual of Japanese papermaking, with illustrations throughout featuring Japanese people at various tasks both related and unrelated to paper production. Text printed in Italian. Bound in pale paper wrappers with black illustration and title..... More
Leipzig: Poensgen & Heyer, Feinpapier, (c. 1900). Quarto. (28)pp. Catalogue from Poensgen & Heyer, a fine paper company, with seven advertisements for German companies printed in brilliant color, gold, and silver on heavy Mitsumata paper. The paper is made from the short fibers of the Mitsumata bush, and therefore has..... More
(North Hills): Bird & Bull Press, 1963. Octavo. 59pp. One of 169 copies. A collection of five essays on hand papermaking, with contributions by Dard Hunter, J. Barcham Green, John Mason, Henry Morris, and Norman H. Strouse. Six wood engravings and many amusing drawings illustrate the process of hand papermaking..... More
Guadalajara: Grafica de Comala, 2019. Octavo. 18pp. One of 60 copies, signed by the artist, Nacho Gomez Arriola. Illustrated throughout with Arriola's linocuts in shades of blue, red, and purple, and printed on paper made from agave fiber. A portfolio of ten additional plates, all signed and employing a rainbow..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1936. Large octavo. 142pp. First English edition. Seventy-three wood engravings by Agnes Miller Parker capture the warmth, darkness, and simple splendor of the English forest, as related in Bates' laudatory survey of its flora and fauna. A charming tome to read closely or from afar, itself..... More
Windsor, VT: 1899. (2)ff. In this revealing letter, Maxfield Parrish bemoans last-minute controversies and deadlines related to The Bodley Head's 1899 publication of Kenneth Grahame's The Golden Age. Primarily his complaints stem from the poor quality of the reproductions of his illustrations—Parrish provided nineteen full-page images and twelve tailpieces for..... More
Cambridge, MA: Runcible Books, (1977). 48mo. Ten cards. One of forty copies, signed by Parry on the colophon card. Eight of the cards feature fanciful drawings of signature Bostonians, reproduced by Xerox and hand-colored by the artist. All held in a Cockerell-covered portfolio. Fine. More
NY: Simon and Schuster, 1958. First edition. Inscribed by the artist, Marian Parry, at the front flyleaf. Parry's many line drawings bring whimsy to Winsor's equally fantastical, intergalactic takes on classic Mother Goose tales. For example, Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep, and "the radar has failed to find..... More
Flansham: Greenleaf Press, 1917. (9)ff. Small quarto. A portfolio of eight wood engravings in black & white, with the title page printed in copper ink. The publication and illustrations were done by Stuart, Robin, and John Guthrie, the sons of James Guthrie of the Pear Tree Press. The Greenleaf Press..... More
Flansham Bognor: Pear Tree Press, 1919. Quarto. 14ff. One of thirty copies signed by James Guthrie on the colophon. With sixteen illustrations by Guthrie printed in single, two, or three colors directly from the plates. Six plates feature calligraphic text and illustration; seven plates contain calligraphic text only; three plates..... More
(Flansham, Bognor: Pear Tree Press, 1937). Quarto. 32, (ii)pp. One of 250 copies. Illustrated with a colored wood-engraved frontispiece portrait of Edward Thomas by Robin Guthrie, and with several engravings, colored vignettes, and two intaglio plates by James Guthrie. One of these intaglio plates reproduces an advertisement for Thomas's first..... More
(Flansham): Pear Tree Press, (1920). Octavo. 25pp. This collection of short children's poems is heavily illustrated with wood engravings by Stuart Guthrie, son of Pear Tree Press founder James Guthrie. The six full-page illustrations and fourteen smaller images used as head- and tailpieces are printed in four colors: blue, green..... More
London: Dean & Son, c. 1860. Quarto. (4)ff. Illustrated with four hand-colored peep-shows, which show the Crystal Palace, St. Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, and the Thames Tunnel. Each peep-show is made up of six panels, each of which has been carefully colored. The Thames Tunnel is shown as a double..... More
London: Warren Editions, 1981. One of fifty copies. An enchanting peep show by the well-known children's author and illustrator Harold Jones. Comprised of six layered panels, plus the illustrated front panel bearing the title and viewing aperture. Looking into the viewing aperture reveals a glimpse deep into a forest filled..... More
(Berlin: Oscar Michaelis, 1896). Printed by S. Schottlaender, Breslau. A colorful telescopic view of the Industrial Exhibition’s main hall, comprised of six bright, chromolithographed panels attached on the sides by accordion-folded paper. The front panel shows the outside of the hall, and the viewer looks through a small hole to..... More
Goshen, NH: Phineas Press, 1973. Small broadside measuring 12 7/8 by 6 3/8 inches. One of 100 copies. Illustrated and designed by Caldecott Award-winner Nonny Hogrogian, with a line drawing of two sleeping cats. A dreamy poem about the anticipation of starting a new garden after moving to New Hamphire..... More
