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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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
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1955. Small quarto. 127pp. Of an edition of 550, this is one of 105 specially bound in white alum-tanned sheepskin and accompanied by eight extra plates. Signed by the illustrator at colophon. Richly illustrated with color-collotype reproductions of Flint's watercolor paintings and crayon drawings of women... More about One Hundred and Eleven Poems
(Waltham Saint Lawrence): Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. Quarto. 101pp. One of 500 copies. Illustrated with wood engravings and all but two initial capitals by Robert Gibbings. The remaining two capitals—“Lamia” on the title page and “IT” on page 18—were engraved by Eric Gill. A fine copy of what the Press..... More about Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of Saint Agnes & Other Poems
London: Golden Cockerel Press, (1939). Small quarto. 28pp. One of 100 copies printed on handmade paper and bound in full blind-stamped mustard morocco. The eighteen copper-engravings by John Buckland-Wright took two years to produce, and were inspired by the Roman sarcophagi in the Louvre. These were produced using a sugar... More about The Vigil of Venus: Pervigilium Veneris
(Waltham St. Lawrence): Golden Cockerel Press, 1931. Quarto. 269pp. One of 500 copies, printed in Golden Cockerel type on Batchelor handmade paper. With sixty-five illustrations from wood engravings by Eric Gill. This work stands as the crowning achievement of the Golden Cockerel Press, as well as Gill’s finest work as... More about The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ. According to the Authorized Version of the King James...
(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 about Laus Veneris
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1959-1965. Folio. Four volumes: "Figure Prints of Old Japan." 1959. (110)ff., + 52 plates. One of 400 copies. "Landscape Prints of Old Japan." 1960. (110)ff., + 50 plates. One of 450 copies. "Ukiyo-e: The Floating World." 1962. (92)ff., + 28 plates. One of 400... More about Set of books on Japanese Prints
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1953. Small quarto. (vi), 191pp. One of 180 copies printed in French Lettre Bâtarde on handmade paper. Illustrated with six striking color woodcuts by Mary Grabhorn. The most beautiful of the Grabhorn Press Shakespeare series. Slight separation at title page gutter, faint foxing to one page... More about The Tragedy of Richard the Third: with the Landing of Earle Richmond, and the Battell at Bosworth...
San Francisco: Grabhorn-Hoyem Press, 1967. Quarto. (iv), 127pp. One of 225 copies. Translated by John F. Crawford and Andrew Hoyem, and with a commentary by Crawford. The Middle English text, printed in red interlinearly with the translation in black, is from a manuscript in the British Museum. The four illustrations... More about The Pearl
Montgomeryshire: Gregynog Press, 1932. Tall octavo. 266, (2)pp. One of 275 copies. Illustrated with twenty-nine chapter headpieces from wood engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Printed in Baskerville type on Japanese vellum. This copy has been bound in full light brown morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Upper cover features title in gilt... More about Erewhon
Newtown: Gregynog Press, 1927. Octavo. (xx), (96)pp. From an edition of 275 copies, this copy is out of series and reserved for exhibition purposes. Signed by Edward Garnett, the author of the Introduction, and dated July 1927. The title page features a wood engraving printed in blue, and wood engraved... More about Selected Poems
North Wales: Gregynog Press, 1991. Folio. 72pp. One of 450 copies. Contains a frontispiece portrait of the author and seven more large wood engravings in color by Gaylord Schanilec. Cut with exquisite precision, and printed in deep, strong colors, this suite of realistic illustrations suits the powerful sequence of Civil... More about Wrenching Times Poems from Drum-Taps
NY: Grolier Club, 1995. Small quarto. 79pp. One of 225 copies. Tipped-in frontispiece portrait of Keats by Charles Brown, a tri-fold facsimile letter from Harvard's Keats archives, and a map showing the route of Keats' walk. The walk in question was a 2000-mile tour of the English Lake District and... More about Letters from a Walking Tour
Powys, Wales: Gwasg Gregynog, 1989. Folio. xv, 100pp. One of 300 copies. Signed by the illustrator, Colin Paynton. Gerald of Wales' medieval tour of the United Kingdom's hilly corner and its people. Ranging from Usk to Cardiff to the River Conwy, this journey through Wales is as entertaining as it... More about Ciraldus Cambrensis. Itinerary through Wales
Wales: Gwasg Gregynog, 2003. Quarto. xv, (3), 99pp. One of 215 copies. Van Niekerk's wood engravings throughout, including frontispiece portrait of Herbert and a rendering of the Vitruvian Man on the whole of page 36. Edited, with introduction and notes, by The Earl of Powis. Bound in quarter-leather by Alan... More about Sundrie Pieces. A New Selection of George Herbert's Poetry, with Samples of his Prose
Powys, Wales: Gwasg Gregynog, 1983. Small quarto. 70, (2)pp. One of 150 regular copies. Inscribed by the author, Arnold Taylor, and signed by the artist, David Woodford, with a letter from each to Hugh Pritchard laid in. Forward by the Prince of Wales. Illustrated with eight etchings showing the four... More about Four Great Castles: Caernarfon - Conwy - Harlech - Beaumaris
Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire: Seven Acres Press, 1927. Octavo. 10pp. One of 125 copies, this copy out-of-series. With woodcut illustrations: architectural border on the title page, six vignettes, eleven initials, and one tail-piece. First page printed in black and red. The binding of this copy, although unsigned, was done by Haberly... More about John Apostate; an Idyl of the Quays
Lexington, KY: Stamperia del Santuccio, 1951. Octavo, 182pp. One of 152 unnumbered copies printed by Carolyn Reading in black and red American Uncial type on Japanese Hosho paper. Translated from the German by Victor Hammer and Thornton Sinclair with an introduction by Hammer. Autograph note from Hammer to Florentine scholar... More about Three Fragments from the Posthumous Papers of Conrad Fiedler MDCCCXLI-MDCCCXCV
Lexington: Anvil Press, 1963. Tall octavo. 70 pp. One of 134 copies printed by Carolyn Hammer. Contains articles by Paul Standard, Victor Hammer, R. Hunter Middleton, and Carolyn Hammer. Illustrated with 20 pp. of examples from the Press, which are bound-in. One of the scarcer titles in the Hammer canon... More about Chapters on Writing and Printing
(Lexington, KY: Anvil Press, 1979). Quarto. (12)pp., (37)ff. One of 50 copies printed in American Uncial on Canson paper. A compilation of 36 plates printed from blocks cut or engraved by Victor Hammer. Several plates are hand-colored and all are tipped-in. Book compiled and designed by Carolyn R. Hammer and... More about Victor Hammer's Engravings and Woodcuts
London: Rainbow Press, 1975. First edition. One of 150 copies signed by the author. With full page two-color illustrations by Barrie Cooke. Handsomely printed early limited edition prints eight poems thematically related to Heaney's poetic pursuit of the archaeology of Ireland's violent past. These poems were published a month ahead... More about Bog Poems
Dublin: Hieroglyph Editions Ltd, 1991. First edition. From an edition of 100 copies, this is one of 60 that were offered for sale. Illustrated with four lithographs by Felim Egan, who designed the book. Signed by Heaney and Egan. This is the first separate appearance of twelve poems from the... More about Squarings
Dublin: Andrew Carpenter, 1979. First edition. From an edition of 125, this is one of 30 copies issued in black morocco and offered for sale. Illustrated with two lithographs by Louis Le Brocquy. Signed by Heaney, Le Brocquy, Liam Miller the designer, and the publisher, Andrew Carpenter. The book was... More about Ugolino
(Vancouver, BC): Heavenly Monkey, 2013. Small quarto. (18), (8)ff. One of twenty copies comprising the regular edition. This work celebrates the many varieties of metal type "purchased for, adopted by, & abandoned at Heavenly Monkey during the studio's first fifteen years" and is printed on a selection of nine different... More about Metal Type
Vancouver, B.C. Heavenly Monkey, 2019. Tall quarto. 18, (10) pp. + two tipped-in leaves. From an edition of 55 copies, this is one of thirty comprising the "Printed" issue. Reprints Pollard's essay, which first appeared in 1921 as the introduction to the catalogue of William Andrews Clark's Kelmscott and Doves... More about The Kelmscott & Doves Presses
