Tölz: Bremer Presse, 1920. Small quarto. 246pp. One of 270 copies. Printed in English in the roman type of Dr. Willi Wiegand with title and 60 initial letters by Anna Simons. One of the few books from Bremer Presse to be printed in English. Attractively bound in full vellum by... More about The Essays of Francis Bacon
Munich: Bremer Presse, 1922. Small quarto. 111pp. One of 280 copies. Titling and initials by Anna Simons. Goethe's reworking of Euripides' ancient Greek tragedy. Stamp at the bottom of interior of the rear board indicates that the volume was bound by the Bremer Bindery. Covers show shelf sunning and slight... More about Iphigenie auf Tauris
Munich: Bremer Presse, 1922. Small quarto. 64pp. One of 200 copies. WIth nineteen initals by Anna Simons. A selection of Holderlin's works, including his seminal "Der Archipelagus", all rendered in a format familiar to the Bremer Presse. This copy rebound with new endpapers into three-quarter leather binding with marbled paper... More about Elegien
(Munich): Bremer Presse, (1923-1924). Two folio volumes. 486; 372pp. One of 615 copies printed in Greek with titles by Anna Simons. These beautiful volumes are printed on Zanders handmade paper in a 16-point Greek type designed for the Press. Colin Franklin describes the Bremer "Homerou poiesis" as “magnificent examples of... More about Ilias and Odusseia (The Iliad and The Odyssey
Munich: Bremer Presse, (1923-1924). Folio. (482)pp. One of 615 copies. Printed entirely in Greek, save the appended commentary and colophon. Colin Franklin describes the book as a "magnificent example of controlled printing." Bound in full calf with gilt rules to covers and spine. Fine. Top edge red. (Franklin p.163). More about Odyssey
Munich: Bremer Presse, 1931. Quarto. 158pp. One of 250 copies. A collection of songs by von der Vogelweide, a medieval poet and minstrel, whose songs are widely regarded as the pinnacle of the era's German love lyric. He is also responsible for using poetry to political ends, and was the... More about Walther von der Vogelweide
(New York & Munich): New York Academy of Medicine & the Library of the University of Munich, 1934. Large folio. (308)pp. One of 615 copies printed at the Bremer Presse from the original wood blocks. A monumental work that reproduces the 1543 Basel edition of Vesalius’s De Humanis Corporis Fabrica... More about Icones Anatomicae
Niles, IL: Dark Harvest, 1986. Two quarto volumes. First edition. One of 52 copies signed by the author and the illustrator, Paul Sonju. A collection of short stories including the 1984 Hugo Award-winning "The Crystal Spheres." Each story features an illustration by Sonju. A very fine copy in bronze paper... More about The River of Time
(N.p. c. 1970s). Silkscreen broadside. The image shows Richard Nixon, printed in blue with his arm raised and two fingers extended in his trademark salute, under the red word "Impeachment." Nixon's form is cleverly constructed from various post office stamps, including "Void" taking the shape of his mouth, "Cancelled" standing..... More about "Impeachment"
Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1923. Quarto. (ii), 75pp. One of 220 copies, printed in red and black with musical notations. Contains twelve wood engravings by Eric Gill and two by Desmond Chute. The book was printed for actual use by Dominican novices. A copy was displayed in the permanent exhibition... More about Horae Beatae Virginis Mariae, Juxta Ritum Sacri Ordinis Praedicatorum
(Wakefield, Yorkshire): Fleece Press, (1986). Large quarto. (10)pp., + (19)ff. From an edition of 200 copies, this is one of twelve bound by James Brockman. Illustrated with twenty wood engravings printed on handmade paper from the original blocks that were cut by Underwood in the 1920s and ‘30s. Underwood’s Brook... More about Leon Underwood: His Wood Engravings
Worcester, MA: Achille J. St. Onge, 1960. 45pp. Printed by Enschedé en Zonen in Holland. The text of the book is accompanied by several full-page illustrations printed in green, along with a frontispiece portrait of the author. Featuring a designer binding by the renowned English binder James Brockman. A church... More about Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Boston, MA: Bromer Booksellers, (c. 1991). Small quarto. (56)pp. With photographic reproductions throughout in black & white. Catalogue number 66 issued by Anne and David Bromer of Bromer Booksellers. This catalogue, released in conjunction with a lecture delivered by Anne Bromer and an exhibition, celebrates "the fine art of calligraphy... More about Ars Calligraphica et Typographica
Bromer Booksellers. (96) pp. Our most ambitious catalogue to date, featuring fifty exemplary works in literature, illustration, miniature and children's books, fine printing and artistic bindings. Includes many rare, unique, and autographed items from the 16th century to the present. More about Catalogue 127: An Extraordinary Gathering
Watertown, Mass. Bromer, Anne & David, 1979. (20)pp. From an edition of 85 copies, only 50 of which were for sale, this is the publisher's copy. Printed by Darrell Hyder. This is the text of the first edition (1840), printed as a micro-miniature with a pictorial opening initial hand-calligraphed by... More about The Remarkable History of Chicken Little
(Boston): Bromer, Anne & David, 1980. 24pp. Although the colophon indicates that forty copies of this hand-colored manuscript were executed, Nancy Chandler Edwards completed only thirty copies. Of these, twenty-two were for sale. The artist used the theme of nature in decorating the letters of the alphabet. Illustrations of animals... More about An Alphabet Book
(Boston): Anne and David Bromer, 1986. (11)ff. One of 160 copies printed at the Firefly Press and illuminated on the title page by Suzanne Moore. This is the publisher's copy, so indicated in Moore's calligraphy on the colophon page. This Elizabethan poem was discovered in a manuscript in 1985 and... More about Shall I Die? Shall I Fly?
Boston: Anne & David Bromer, 1984. (31)ff. One of thirty copies. A whimsical ABC manuscript, drawing on the fertile soil of gardening for its inspiration. The book is lettered and illustrated by Melissa Sweet, the work done in vibrant colors entirely by hand. Sweet went on to illustrate numerous children’s..... More about A Garden Companion
Watertown, MA: Anne and David Bromer, 1977. (24)pp., frenchfold. From a deluxe edition of twenty-five copies, signed by the illustrator, Sarah Chamberlain, this is the publisher's copy. With an extra suite of ten artist's proofs of wood engravings, each signed by Chamberlain, as well as an original woodblock by Chamberlain... More about The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast. Together with: Butterflies in Flight woodblock
Boston: Bromer, Anne & David, 1984. Quarto. 38pp. First edition. One of 225 copies printed in three colors by Richard Bigus at the Stinehour Press. Illustrated with two wood engravings by Greg Dearth and a specimen sheet printed in three colors on parchment. Hand-bound by Claudia Cohen in quarter-vellum and... More about Mystique of Vellum. Containing an introduction by Dechard Turner and a historical essay on vellum...
Boston: Bromer, Anne & David, 1984. 14pp. First edition of Clemens' humorous contribution to an autograph book presented to Mrs. Grover Cleveland in 1889. From an edition of 200 copies, this is one of fifty deluxe copies bound in full leather by Barbara Blumenthal and with hand-colored illustrations by Rez'... More about Mark Twain Compliments the President's Wife
Watertown, MA: Bromer, Anne & David, 1978. 30pp. From an edition of thirty-five deluxe copies printed at the Bird & Bull Press and signed by Henry Morris, this is a publisher's copy. The deluxe copies include an extra leaf tipped in titled “The Remedy for Micro-Typographia,” which includes a version..... More about No. V-109. The Biography of a Printing Press
Watertown, MA: Bromer, Anne & David, 1978. 30pp. From an edition of 150 copies, this is a publisher's copy, inscribed by Henry Morris. In the inscription, Morris writes, "John Fowles got $2 each for signing his books, but i do it for nothing-- is that fair??" This was the first... More about No. V-109: The Biography of a Printing Press
NY: Abrams and The Grolier Club, (2007). 215pp. Miniature edition. This is an exact facsimile of Bromer & Edison's important reference work on miniature books, reproduced on a miniature scale. Profusely illustrated with more than 260 full-color photographic reproductions, including numerous full-page illustrations and two-page spreads. A comprehensive history of... More about Miniature Books: 4,000 Years of Tiny Treasures
NYC: Abrams and The Grolier Club, (2007). Small quarto. 215pp. One of 250 deluxe copies for sale, signed by the authors and including a facsimile of the book in miniature format, together in a specially designed slipcase. Profusely illustrated with more than 260 full-color photographic reproductions including numerous full-page illustrations... More about Miniature Books: 4,000 Years of Tiny Treasures
