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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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822. Octavo. (iv), 397pp. Eleventh edition. Here, Moore's wildly popular, and subtly pro-Irish nationalism, poem receives an impressive fore-edge painting. The poem's titular heroine stands before her poet suitor, and behind them are Arabesque archways framing an imaginative city in Bukhara. The base..... More
Madrid: Editorial Voluntad, 1927. Quarto. (vi), (121)ff., + 120 plates. Each plate shows a drawing by de Azpiazu, who in each captures the beauties of Spanish architecture, life, and landscape. The Quinteros provide commentary for each, and Serafina Alvarez Quintero contributed the frontispiece portrait of de Azpiazu. The book is..... More
London: Saunders and Otley, 1836-38. Three octavo vols. 304; 304; 304pp. Engraved titles with vignettes, as well as nearly 150 engravings throughout the set. A testament to British literature and artistry, with the poetic pillars of Chaucer, Spenser, Donne, Shakespeare, Dryden, Burns, Wordsworth, Shelley, Coleridge, and myriad other writers comprising..... More
London: J. Murray, 1778. Octavo. xlv, 256pp. This copy is extra-illustrated with four inserted plates by Bartolozzi, which are printed in bistre. Bound in full vellum by Edwards of Halifax. Both covers are underpainted in black, with a bucolic scene of a couple courting beneath a tree in a park..... More
Santa Cruz, CA: William James Association, 1976. Elephant folio. 15ff., loose. One of 200 copies. To commemorate the bicentennial of the founding of the United States, seventeen printers contributed broadsides in their own styles, illustrating in image and type statements from various founding fathers. The participating printers included William Everson..... More
NY: Henry Holt, (1928). Small quarto. viii, 58pp. Second (i.e., limited) edition. One of 1,000 copies signed by the author. Illustrated with four full-page woodcuts, each of which is signed in pencil by the artist, J. J. Lankes. These have been inserted and are not included in the pagination. This..... More
Salem, MA. Parker Brothers Inc., (1933). Board game, which has a playing board with colorful spaces, a bifold instruction booklet, a yellow cloth bag containing tokens in colors matching those of the board spaces, and four player pieces representing Pooh, Piglet, Rabbit, and Christopher Robin. The game abides by simple..... More
(n.d.). A woodcut print on India paper of a kneeling figure overlooking a view of hills. Spot of foxing, else fine. (Image measures 5 7/8 by 5 13/16 in.; 150x148 mm). More
(n.d.). A woodcut print on India paper of a girl and her woodland entourage. Fine. (Image measures 3 1/2 by 4 1/4 in.; 90x109 mm). More
(n.d.). A woodcut print on India paper of an agricultural farming village, with bales of hay, thatch-roofed homes, and hills in the background. Fine. (Image measures 4 by 5 in.; 102x128 mm). More
(n.d.). A woodcut print on India paper of a shepherd carrying a lamb, evocative of Gaskin's illustrations for the Kelmscott Press' Shepheardes Calendar. Signed and titled in pencil by Gaskin. Fine. (Image measures 3 11/16 by 2 1/2 in.; 94x63 mm). More
1926. A woodcut print on India paper of a woman clambering into bed. Signed, dated, and titled in pencil by Gaskin. Fine, affixed to mat. (Image measures 3 1/2 by 4 in.; 92x102 mm). More
1926. A woodcut print on Japanese paper of a couple in romantic embrace. Signed, dated, and titled in pencil by Gaskin. Fine, matted. (Image measures 5 1/2 by 2 13/16 in.; 141x71 mm). More
1926. A woodcut print on Japanese paper of a woman, fitted out in frock and hat, in white figure against a black background. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil by Gaskin. Few spots of foxing, inconsequential, else near fine. (Image measures 4 13/16 by 2 3/8 in.; 122x60 mm). More
1926. A woodcut print on India paper of two sisters embracing. Signed, dated, and titled in pencil by Gaskin. Shade of foxing, else near fine. (Image measures 2 7/8 by 1 15/16 in.; 74x50 mm). More
(n.d.). A woodcut print on India paper of a winter storm settling over a tree-embraced homestead. Signed, titled, and dated in pencil by Gaskin. Fine. (Image measures 4 by 5 in.; 102x128 mm). More
(n.d.). A woodcut print on India paper of three geese settled before a fence. Fine. (Image measures 3 9/16 by 3 1/2 in.; 90x89 mm). More
Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1969. Folio. (70)pp. From an edition of 200 copies, this is an out-of-series printer's copy inscribed by Leonard Baskin to Arno Werner, who bound the book. One of the major productions of Baskin's Gehenna Press. Illustrated with ten etchings by Baskin, nine of which are signed..... More
(Rockport, ME): Gehenna Press, 1998. Folio. (65)pp. From an edition of fifty, this is one of ten deluxe copies, accompanied by a page of Hecht's manuscript, three watercolor drawings by Baskin, one of the original woodcut blocks, and a suite of woodcuts printed in black with several hand-colored by Baskin..... More
Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1963. Elephant folio. (24)pp. One of 150 copies, signed by the illustrator, Rico Lebrun, and by the engraver, Leonard Baskin, below the colophon and on the prints. Lebrun's illustrations evoke the raw emotion and bare-bones humanity and animality of Melville's tale. Pages held loose in unbound..... More
Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1972. Quarto. (14)ff. One of thirty-five copies. Signed by Baskin at the colophon. Eight etchings, each signed and numbered in pencil, all depicting figures formed after the fashion of Roman boundary markers. These stele, with the exception of the bird marker, preserve perhaps the most human..... More
(Leeds, MA): Gehenna Press, 1989. Quarto. (13)pp, (25)ff. One of thirty-eight copies. A collection of etchings of cats by the Italian artist Anna Maria Bartolini, some of which are printed on pink mulberry paper and tipped in. All are signed by the artist in graphite. Some of the cats are..... More
(Chicago): Starshaped Press, 2017. Square quarto. (6)ff. One of fifty copies, signed by the artist, Jennifer Farrell. Letterpress-printed illustrations of girls formed from type ornaments accompany lyrics from songs by The Bodysnatchers, The Jam, Alex Chilton, and MC Lyte to present empowered, confident figures from subcultures that reappropriated the term..... More
Bob Ziering, 2009. Pastel on paper. Signed and dated by the artist, Bob Ziering. Exploratory artwork for the gay 2010 American short film Curious Thing directed by Alain Hain. This bold, emotional piece is Ziering at his most authentic; a celebrated commercial illustrator, it was only after more than forty..... More
