Bromer Bookseller has always held the aesthetic of letterpress printing as the finest technique in which to present the written word. We offer many fine examples of printing from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, as well as earlier printed items. On our shelves, you will the find traditional, restrained typography of Bruce Rogers and John Baskerville, as well as more experimental work from such modern practitioners as Gunnar Kaldewey. Other leading printers represented in our stock include ...
Read more about Fine Printing
(Northampton, MA): Gehenna Press, 1959. Octavo. (8)ff. One of 250 copies printed for the Print Club of Philadelphia, and signed by the artist. Contains nine wood engravings by Baskin. The volume, as described by Baskin himself, marks the beginning of his invention of "typographic structures of originality and sensitivity", brought... More about Auguries of Innocence
NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1957. Oblong quarto. 12ff. One of 975 copies, designed, illustrated, and printed at the Gehenna Press by Leonard Baskin on handmade Italian and Japanese papers. Signed by Baskin, who illustrated the work with six original boxwood engravings and one cherry woodcut. Fine in wrappers with... More about Voyages: Six Poems from White Buildings
Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1969. Folio. (70)pp. From an edition of 200 copies, this is an out-of-series printer's copy inscribed by Leonard Baskin to Arno Werner, who bound the book. One of the major productions of Baskin's Gehenna Press. Illustrated with ten etchings by Baskin, nine of which are signed... More about Hippolytos
Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1970. Small octavo. 236pp. One of 300 copies. Baskin's drawings illustrate much of the volume, providing a both probing and somewhat comical insight into Goethe's poetry. Translation and commentary by Alex Page. This is volume one of seven books proposed by the Gehenna Press. Bound in... More about West-Ostlicher Divan. Goethe's West-Eastern Divan
(Northampton, MA): Gehenna Press, 1958. Small quarto. (12)pp. One of 100 copies. Signed by George Lockwood, who contributed the wood-engraved frontispiece. Leyda's poem about Emily Dickinson's Amherst, Massachusetts home is interspersed with the words from the deed, which are printed in red. An uncommon Gehenna title, this copy shows some... More about A House to Be Born In
(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 about Effleurage
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 about The Defense of Gracchus Babeuf Before the High Court of Vendome
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 about Joe Average
(N.p. 1922). Wood engraving on paper measuring 3 by 4 inches. One of twelve copies. Signed by Gill. The illustration shows two figures in a tight embrace against a black background. Engraving in fine condition. Matted and in an unglazed frame measuring 11 1/2 by 13 inches. (Physick 396). More about "Divine Lovers"
London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1938. Octavo. xiv, (24)pp. One of 550 copies signed by Eric Gill and printed by Hague & Gill. Illustrated with four full page wood engravings by Gill. Slight bumping to foot of spine and corners, else a near fine copy in black cloth... More about The Holy Sonnets of John Donne
Capel-y-ffin, Abergavenny: Francis Walterson, 1927. Octavo. (vii), 46pp. One of 200 copies printed at the Shakespeare Head Press for Francis Walterson, signed by both Eric Gill and David Jones. This was the only book to be issued signed by the two. Illustrated with a frontispiece engraved by David Jones titled... More about Christianity and Art
London: Sheed & Ward, (1931). Octavo. iv, 121 pp. First edition. One of 500 copies signed by Eric Gill and Rene Hague and printed by Hague & Gill. This is a presentation copy, inscribed on the colophon. Illustrated with twenty-five figures, including ten type specimens and four illustrations from wood... More about An Essay on Typography
(Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1929). 32mo. (5)pp. With a cover illustration, dragon headpiece, and four square vignettes by Eric Gill, depicting a child's encounter with night-time fears. In this poem by Press founder Hilary Pepler, a boy asks his nurse if dragons, ghosts, and goblins exist as he is tucked... More about Concerning Dragons
Boston: David R. Godine, 1966. Octavo. 75pp. From an edition of 500, this is one of 40 copies printed on heavy yellow Fabriano paper, and one of the few printed entirely on the same color sheet. Godine's first book, it was suppressed at the time of publication due to copyright... More about Lyric Verse: A Printer's Choice
(Boston, MA): David R. Godine, 1967. Small quarto. (4)ff. A booklet of seven poems: "To Lucia at Birth," by Robert Graves; "White in the Moon," by A. E. Housman; "Ship Islands Trees," by Lawrence Durrell; "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night," by Dylan Thomas; "New Hampshire," by T.... More about A Pleiades of Poetry
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 about The Four Seasons. An Impression of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter: a Landscape Panorama
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 about "Images Médiévales"
Oakland, CA: Karl Kardel Co., 1974. Broadside measuring 24 by 18 1/4 inches. One of 1,850 copies. Designed by California artist David Lance Goines and printed in 8 colors, this advertisement for Karl Kardel Co. features a bumblebee over an ochre background. The design was inspired by an unknown philosopher's... More about "Karl Kardel Co.: Builders, Painters, Decorators"
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1926. Small quarto. 15pp. One of 250 numbered copies. The text is illustrated with six wood engravings by Eric Gill. The engravings are beautifully rendered interpretations of scenes from the last day of Jesus's life, from his vigil at the Garden of Gethsemane, to... More about Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi: Being the 26th and 27th Chapters of Saint Matthew's Gospel...
Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press, 1926. Small quarto. v, (i), 94, 1pp. A collection of Aesop's much-celebrated and much-cited fables, some illustrated with bold wood engravings by Celia M. Fiennes. In keeping with the Golden Cockerel Press's tradition of creating limited editions of classic masterworks, this representation was reprinted from Sir... More about The Fables of Aesop
Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press, 1927. Quarto. xi, 312pp. One of 225 copies printed on Kelmscott paper in black, red, and blue. This handsome volume is Eric Gill's tour-de-force, his wood engravings appearing in the outer margin of every page of text. The decorations show leafy vines that frame and interlace... More about Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer
(London): Golden Cockerel Press, 1945. Quarto. 92pp. One of 500 copies. Six engravings by Webb, illustrating various military exploits and battles recounted in the text. The original work, titled Gesta Francorum et Aliorum Hierosolimitanorum, was the diary of a cavalry officer in Asia Minor, Syria, and Palestine. The original mauscript... More about The First Crusade. The Deeds of the Franks and Other Jerusalemites
(London): Golden Cockerel Press, 1934. Tall octavo. (16)pp. One of 500 numbered copies. Illustrated with one full-page wood engraving and a four-line initial capital by Gill. This edition of Gill's "sermon," reflecting on the 136th Psalm, marks the first use of Gill's Perpetua Roman and Felicity Italic typefaces. Bound in... More about The Lord's Song
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1952. Tall quarto. 80pp. From an edition of 360 copies, this is one of 60 deluxe copies, signed by the artist, John Buckland Wright, and the author, Phyllis Hartnoll. Illustrated by Buckland Wright with eight aquatints, printed from the copper plates. Only the deluxe copies had... More about The Grecian Enchanted
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1952. Tall quarto. 80pp. One of 360 copies. Illustrated by John Buckland Wright with eight aquatints, printed from the copper plates. A lush example of Buckland Wright's style, with particularly impressive shading and detail not found in other instances of his work. Bound in green half-cloth... More about The Grecian Enchanted
