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: J. Johnson, 1808. Two octavo vols. 432; 412pp. Frontispiece portrait of Cowper to first volume; both volumes replete with head- and tail-pieces designed by Thurston and engraved by Nesbit, Clennel, and Branston. The illustrations pair well with Cowper's proto-Romantic poetry, elevating country life and rustic scenes to a laudable..... More
NY: Dodd, Mead, 1899. Three quarto volumes. xxvi, 330pp. From an edition of 268, this is one of thirty copies on Imperial Japon. In addition, this is a unique copy with an extra set of the 126 color photogravure plates printed on white satin and backed in celadon silk. The..... More
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
London: Macmillan and Co., 1902. Octavo. xiv, 348pp. Signed, numbered, and titled by Miss C. B. Currie, artist of the fore-edge painting. Interior illustrated throughout with etchings of Hertfordshire's landmarks, both natural and manmade. Concludes with a fold-out map of the region. Bound by Riviere & Son in full orange..... 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
Buren, The Netherlands: Frits Knuf, 1985. Oblong quarto. (22)ff. One of 100 copies, signed by the author. Containing two black & white photographs of Karli Frigge at work and thirty-four total tipped-in samples of intricate marbled papers in a rainbow of hues. After apprenticing with a Dutch binder, Karli Frigge..... More
London: R. Alistair McAlpine Publishing Limited, 1968. Oblong octavo. (110)pp. One of 250 copies, signed by the artist, Elizabeth Frink, on the front flyleaf, and with the stated four additional original lithographs bound in at the rear. Throughout, Frink's lithographed illustrations bring lightness to what appears at first to be..... More
(NY: Henry Holt, 1924). Single sheet folded once to make a four-page pamphlet. First edition. One of 2000 copies printed for distribution at Frost lectures at East Coast colleges. With two woodcut vignettes by J.J. Lankes. Signed by Frost below "The Pasture," which appears on the first page. Paper evenly..... 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
Dublin, Ireland/Deerfield, MA: Gallery Press/Deerfield Press, 1977-1983. Eighteen octavo volumes. Variously paginated. Volumes printed from 1977-1978 are one of 250 copies; later editions are one of 300. Each signed by the author at colophon and illustrated with woodcuts or drawings from Engelland, who also acted as designer. Printed by Harold..... More
1896-1905. A collection of nine color Christmas cards for the years 1897 through 1905, designed by Georgie Gaskin for Laurence W. Hodson and his family. The cards feature delicate vining borders intertwined with banners that extend the Christmas greeting for that year. The subjects of the cards include the Hodson..... More
1896-1905. 5ff. An original pen & ink drawing and two proofs, one hand-colored and one printed, plus a final printed copy of a Christmas card designed by Georgie Gaskin for Laurence W. Hodson and his family. The card is for the year 1896 and depicts Santa Claus, heavily laden with..... More
Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1959. 12mo. (12)ff. One of 200 copies. With original woodcuts to title and colophon by Leonard Baskin. Printed in green, black, and orange. Some rubbing, else a near fine copy in stiff floral-patterned wrappers with printed label. 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
Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1964. Quarto. 84pp + 21 inserted plates. One of 300 copies. Signed by Cornell twice at the colophon and under each illustration, and by Leonard Baskin, who designed the book. The plates, printed on blue paper, bear twenty-one different portraits of the major players in Babeuf's..... 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
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Matanzas, Cuba: Ediciones Vigía, 2014. Small octavo. 58pp. One of 200 copies. Illustrated in paper collage and hand-colored drawings, all incorporating traditional feminine imagery—nude female figures and items of makeup—into uncomfortable or disorienting scenes. The disillusionment finds ground in Maité Hernández-Lorenzo’s seventeen stories and vignettes, in which she describes the..... More
(Worcester, VT): Dragon Dance Theatre, 1997. Folio. (18)ff. One of twenty copies, signed by the artist, Sam Kerson. A tribute to the actor and activist Murray Levy in a series of fifteen bold, full-page black & white linocuts by his friend, Sam Kerson, an artist and the co-founder and director..... More
Nassau, The Bahamas: Sonia Farmer, 2019. One of twenty copies, signed by the poet, Shivanee Ramlochan, and the artist, Sonia Farmer. A profound and painful witness to the trauma of sexual assault in the Caribbean region (and more broadly), the work is presented as a series of seven poems by..... More
Prague, Czechoslovakia and Vestal, NY: Robert Marx and Ivan Ruzicka, 1966. Octavo. (28)ff. One of twenty-five copies, signed by the artist, Robert Marx, and the translator and binder, Ivan Ruzicka, below the colophon, and initialled by Marx on the title page. Marx’s etched portraits of old women, all numbered and..... More
(Vancouver, B.C.): Heavenly Monkey, 2012. Octavo. 6ff. One of two artist's proof copies out of a total edition of fifty. Includes frontispiece and colophon illustrations, each reproducing one of the artist's original photograms as a photogravure; in the regular edition, each copy received only one of these. The second in..... More
Victoria, Australia: 2010. Square 32mo. (14)pp., accordion-fold, decorated on both sides of the page. An original artist's book by Jennifer Gibney, with hand-drawn text and pen illustrations in black, sepia, and sanguine ink, housed within a hand-painted and decorated wooden box. The story concerns a jester-like character who is overwhelmed..... More
(Weimar): Cranach Press, 1931. Tall octavo. 31, (1)pp. From an edition of 268 copies, this is one of 200 copies on handmade Maillol-Kessler paper. Printed in red and black and illustrated throughout with wood engravings and decorated initials by Eric Gill. This ancient dialogue between the Bride and Groom is..... More
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
