Bookshops In Art And Illustration

Vellichor: The strange wistfulness of used bookshops

Anton Pieck 1971

THE BEAN & THE SCENE (1969) Barbara Westman, The Harvard Lampoon and the Starr Book Shop full of old books

The Bookshop of Dust and Dreams

Bookshop from Chinese picture book

Richard Erdoes (1912-2008) 1967 illustration for his own children’s book Peddlers and Vendors Around the World

Book shop by Arthur Getz (1913-1996), 1962

Norman Mills Price (1877 – 1951) book shop

Edward Penfield (1866-1925) Illustrations for The Dreamers A Club by John Kendrick Bangs. Published by Harper & Brothers, 1899

Arthur Getz July 20, 1957, of a bookstore in New York City

Bookshop on Sicilian Avenue London 1920 (AI generated colorisation based on a photo with unknown photographer)

ENEMY, DENIS VILLENEUVE (2013) bookstore

Header: ‘The Gleaners.’ (c1929) Stanley Anderson