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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(Gloucestershire, UK): Leslie Gerry Editions, (2016). Folio. (60)pp. From an edition of 80 copies, this is one of 70 bound in cloth. Illustrated with twenty-two full-color double-page spreads of the people and scenery of Havana. Includes extracts from Irene A. Wright's "Cuba," written in 1910. Gerry's paintings, inspired by a...... 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
Ditchling: 1919. Two prints by Gill. The first appears to be perhaps a ghost monotype, printed on tissue; it shows black in the quadrants divided by the crucifix where other printings show white (or neutral). The second is a variant, likely an early mockup toward the finished product and lacking..... More
(Ditchling): 1919. Bodycolor and graphite on paper measuring 7 1/2 by 5 inches. Initialled and dated "17.1.19" in lower right corner. The image here was originally executed by Gill in 1917 after a crucifix in the window of York Minister (see Physick 89), and bears stylistic similarities with the crucifixion..... More
Ditchling: c. 1910. Pen-and-ink overpainted in white gouache on stiff card, measuring 3 1/2 by 2 1/2 inches. Original artwork by Eric Gill for Roger Fry's 1910 Christmas card. An artist and influential art critic, Fry reviewed Gill's first sculpture exhibition at the Chenil Gallery in Chelsea, and was one..... More
Piggots, High Wycombe: 1930. Pen and ink over graphite on single sheet measuring 5 15/16 by 4 7/8 inches. Signed and dated "7.8.30." Gill depicts the front view of the Wife of Bath astride a horse in this design, which appeared on the upper cover of the third volume of..... More
1924. Measures 4 by 3 15/16 inches. Intaglio engraving on hard endgrain boxwood, so that the finish mimics a copper engraving. This process is discussed in detail in an article by Gill entitled "Intaglio Printing from Wood Blocks." This image is a slightly different version of an engraving Gill made..... More
(Ditchling: c. 1920). Pen-and-ink on paper, with traces of pencil. Image shows an angel greeting St. Peter in jail, holding a key and preparing to set him free of his chains. The remnants of a pencil gestural drawing can be seen at the illustration's left. The page's verso shows, in..... More
(Ditchling, East Sussex: c. 1938). Wood engraving on paper. One of ten copies, signed and numbered by Gill. This is a separately-issued print of one of Gill's illustrations for Shakespeare's Henry the Eighth, commissioned by the Limited Editions Club and published in 1939. The book was one volume of a...... More
1928. Engraved print by Eric Gill illustrating a celebratory Christmas card for 1928. Affixed to cardstock. Fine. (Printed sheet measures 5 1/2 by 3 3/8; 141x86mm). More
(Pigotts: Rene Hague & Eric Gill, 1930). 24mo. (8)pp. One of 225 copies. The first piece of letterpress printing produced by René Hague and Eric Gill, copies of this booklet were distributed privately. The tale of Amnon's rape of his half-sister Tamar actually appeared in the Second Book of Samuel..... More
(Ditchling): c. 1914. Graphite on tracing paper measuring 6 1/2 by 4 1/2 inches. Image appears over a grid-rule, also done in graphite by Gill. Together with: a proof of the engraving made from this image. Both show identical rust stains in the upper left margin, suggesting they were pinned..... More
(N.p.): 1929. Printed card, with wood engraving by Eric Gill depicting a coy couple searching for each other among vines. Printed to advertise the marriage of Constance Fry and Ifan Kyrle Fletcher, a bibliographer and writer who wrote a bibliography of Edward Gordon Craig. Fine. (4 1/8 by 5 1/8;..... More
London: Cassell and Francis Walterson, 1929. Octavo. x, 325 pp. First edition. One of 100 copies signed by Eric Gill. A collection of the artist's writings, with a wood engraving by him on the title page. The colophon notes that this publication marks the first use of Gill's Perpetua type..... More
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
Ditchling, Sussex: Douglas Pepler, 1917. Fifteen sheets with multiple diagrams in pencil, ranging in size from 5 1/2 by 4 1/2 to 11 by 7 1/4 inches; eight sheets of pencil tracings on tracing paper, one of which is clipped to a woodcut proof; and one diagram rendered in blue..... More
Paris: Louis Janet, (c. 1830). 48mo. 48pp., + engraved title page and six plates of engravings. A collection of titularly genteel love poetry, mostly penned by “Bernard,” whose brief biography appears as an introduction. The inserted plates show lovers in pastoral settings. Bound in a glass binding, with spine and..... More
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
Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 1991. Two octavo volumes. 184pp; (26)ff. From an edition of 1650 copies, this is one of three special copies printed for the authors, signed by Morris Cox and with a second volume of twenty-six specimen leaves. Inscribed by Colin Franklin. Contains a selection of the writings..... More
London: Gogmagog Press, 1967. Small octavo. (28)pp., frenchfold. From an edition of 100 copies, this is one of 40 bound in Hana-asa paper, reserved for members of The Society of Private Printers. Signed by Cox and printed on Japanese handmade paper. Fourteen spare three-line poems, illustrated with three offset prints..... More
(London): Gogmagog Press, 1968. Octavo. (43)pp., frenchfold. One of twenty-six copies printed and signed by Morris Cox. Contains thirty-four "nature prints," actually made with plastic and gesso, with results resembling the vein patterns of leaves, which Chambers refers to as "a notable modern exploration of nature-printing." The title is printed..... More
(London): Gogmagog Press, 1962. Octavo. (24)pp., frenchfold. One of fifty copies printed and signed by Morris Cox. Contains fifteen black and white satirical prints illustrating awkward moments, with captions in red. Near fine in linen-covered boards with printed spine label. (Chambers 8). More
London: Gogmagog Press, (1975). Thin octavo. (viii), (24)pp. One of twenty-four copies signed by Morris Cox. A collection of Cox's more melancholy poetry, accompanied by four reverse/direct offset illustrations printed across double pages on gray, scarlet, gray-green, and blue papers. A scarce Gogmagog title, no copies of which were for..... More
London: Gogmagog Press, (1960). Octavo. (36)pp., frenchfold. One of fifty copies printed in various colors and signed by Morris Cox. Illustrated with four double-page color prints that accompany poetry by Cox, which he calls "a poem in three parts, being the apotheosis of an unknown woman victim of a war,"..... More
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
