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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Vienna: J. de Pian and L. Müller, 1842-44. Folio. (26)ff. Twenty-six color lithographs after Jean Baptiste de Pian, printed and finished by hand by the noted Viennese lithographers Leopold Müller, Johann Höfelich, and M. R. Toma. Each plate in this series has a large letter of the alphabet fully incorporated..... More
Two modern posters, with alphabet themes, containing: "Jerry Pallotta's Alphabet Books." Watertown, MA, Charlesbridge Publishing, (early 1990s). An advertising poster for artist Jerry Pallotta's alphabet books, measuring 24 1/2 by 19 1/4 inches (622x489mm) and showing the full cover for "The Extinct Alphabet Book," published in 1993. A list of..... More
N.p. (Thomas McLean, 1810s). Framed, full-color plate of a Turkish warrior from John Heaviside Clark's The Military Costume of Turkey, engraved by F. H. Clark from a drawing by Octavien D'Alvimart. This plate shows a subaltern officer of the janizaries, or janissaries, a division of the Turkish infantry forming the..... More
(1800s). Two hand-colored botanical prints showing members of the Amaryllis family. Each flower is beautifully rendered in full color with its scientific classification beside it. The reds, oranges, blues, and pinks of the flowers pop against the deep greens of the foliage. Each is framed with blue-green marbled paper, cream..... More
N.p. 1941-1943. Four octavo volumes. Standard issue blank books printed by the Government Printing Office that were owned by Lorain R. Snyder, who served as a Gunner's Mate aboard the U.S.S. Richmond from 1941 to 1943. The first two volumes contain Snyder's notes and assignments on such matters as wrecking..... More
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire: Fleece Press, 2000. Quarto. 87 pp. One of 44 deluxe copies with a print pulled from John Buckland Wright's copper plates entitled "Nymphe Surprise No.II", engraved during his period at the Atelier 17. It was a previously un-editioned copper engraving, printed by the Black Star Press and..... More
(London): Golden Cockerel Press, 1948. Tall octavo. 28pp. From an edition of 750, this is one of 100 copies specially bound and with an extra engraving. The twelve engravings by John Buckland Wright, with their supple lines and rich settings, perfectly complement Swinburne’s long erotic poem. In full sienna morocco..... More
(London): Mile End Press, 2016. Small quarto. (40)ff. One of 90 special edition copies. A collection of photographs taken by Yahooda of archaeological findings of jewelery discovered in Newfoundland. Each is named for the place in which it lay, a decision, among others, which Brian Appleyard discusses in his accompanying..... More
Covelo, CA: Yolla Bolly Press, (1994). Quarto. xiv, (ii), 124pp. From an edition of 141 copies, 121 of which were for sale, this is one of 85 copies signed by Octavio Paz, who selected and edited the poems, Eliot Weinberger, who provided a commentary, and the illustrator, Enrique Chagoya. The..... More
