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 ...
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(Lower Marston: Whittington Press, 1992). Quarto. 227 pp. From an edition of 350 copies, this is one of thirty-five bound in full Oasis goatskin, with an extra portfolio of leaves and complete publications of the Stanbrook Abbey Press, and signed by the author and by the Abbess of Stanbrook. A.... More
Andoversford, Gloucestershire: Whittington Press, (1981). Quarto. (28)pp. One of twenty-five copies bound in vellum. Illustrated with two wood engravings by Hellmuth Weissenborn. Signed by the artist, R. George Thomas (writer of the introduction and editor of the author's letters and poems), and Myfanwy Thomas (the author's daughter). First appearing circa... More
Gloucestershire, UK: Whittington Press & Acorn Press, (1983). Folio. xvi, 68pp. One of 200 copies. Illustrated with a large photographic frontispiece depicting the artist at work, and with an autobiographical introduction. The book consists primarily of examples of Weissenborn's engravings, followed by a catalogue. Bound in tan buckram with an... More
(Andoversford, Gloucestershire / London): Whittington Press / Acorn Press, 1977. Oblong folio. (43)pp. One of 60 copies. Illustrated with twenty-one hand-colored linocuts on the rectos of each page, and quotations about the ruins on the facing versos. The ruins depicted are both ancient and modern, including the Great Wall of... More
Gloucestershire: Whittington Press, (1977). Large quarto. (26)ff. One of fifty numbered copies signed by the author-illustrator. A collection of ten poems and ten etchings by Judy Ling Wong, beautifully printed on heavy Fabriano Roma handmade paper. Wong printed the etchings, which are in black, in her own studio; each one... More
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1983. Folio. 160pp. One of 325 copies printed by the book designer, author, and printer Adrian Wilson at the Press in Tuscany Alley. A lavishly illustrated bibliography, printed in two colors, with sample pages bound in. Spine very lightly sunned, else very fine in quarter-morocco and wheat buckram. More
(Shaker Heights, OH): Wind & Harlot Press, (1991). (24)pp., frenchfold. One of 52 copies. A lovely presentation of the classic poem, printed on Japanese paper. With sweetly colored illustrations by Bonnie Baris showing the cat as she is beguiled by the gold (fish) that ultimately leads to her doom. Mint... More
Austin: Book Club of Texas, 1993. Broadside measuring 14 by 20 inches. Printed by the Wind River Press. Includes a quotation from J. Frank Dobie's "Some Part of Myself" (1967), and an illustration by Teresa Avini. The main image, printed in a dark purple, shows cowboys silhouetted against a night... More
(Haarlem: Carlinapers, 1974). Tall, narrow octavo. (20)pp. One of forty copies. A reprint of the original 1943 edition, which was also published in a limited edition of forty copies. In this poignant satirical variation on the "Ten Little Indians" nursery rhyme, originating from a German concentration camp during the Holocaust... 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
