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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(Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1963). Quarto. (350)pp. One of 275 copies printed in Italian. Wood-engraved title page by Reynolds Stone and 114 woodcuts from the Epistole et Evangelii (1495), newly cut by Bruno Bramanti and Italo Zetti. Mardersteig conjectured that the series of woodcuts that graced one of the "rarest and..... More
Paris: Officina Bodoni for the Pegasus Press, 1929. Quarto. 30pp., (51)ff. One of 175 copies printed at the Officina Bodoni. With an Introduction by Henry Thomas and descriptive notes by Stanley Morison. Following these are forty-nine facsimile leaves in collotype reproducing the surviving text and plates of Brun's two writing..... More
Monmouthshire, UK: Old Stile Press, 2007. Oblong quarto. 46pp. Signed by the artist. Each poem illustrated with a color woodcut or linocut by Cazalet. Cazalet's images visually complement the topography of Hardy's experience and the sensations evoked by his poetry. Cazalet himself arranged the poems to suggest Hardy's gradual reconciliation..... More
(Kansas City: Grafik Archive, 2000). Octavo. 39ff., frenchfold. One of 300 copies. This edition was printed for a Danish exhibit of Orosz's work. The Hungarian-born poster artist combines Escher-like graphics with classical influences, evident in this collection of his theater and political posters, and etchings. Small envelopes and glassine bags..... More
Darmstadt and Hamburg: Otto Rohse Presse, 1981. Small quarto. 38pp. One of 300 copies. Signed by the artist. Printed and illustrated with eleven wood-engravings by Rohse, one of Germany's contemporary fine printers. The text tells about an earthquake in Chile. Bottom right corner of the front cover rubbed, else a...... More
Stamford, CT: Overbrook Press, (1936). Folio. One of twenty copies. Six color engravings illustrating Oscar Wilde's text, each signed by the artist and mounted on a 13 by 10-inch off-white matte. This suite of prints comprises the full set of the engravings that appeared in the edition of the book..... More
Stamford, CT: Overbrook Press, 1940. 12mo. (22)pp. One of 250 copies. Ten amusing poems, written by Margaret B. Evans, relating to printing are illustrated with pictures composed entirely of type ornaments. Trace foxing, else fine in yellow cloth with dust wrapper with somewhat toned spine. This copy signed by the..... More
Oxford: Alembic Press, 1991. Quarto. 53pp. One of 175 copies. Contains nineteen samples. This book describes the history and the techniques behind Claire Maziarczyk's vivid and unusual paste papers. Bound in gold and silver paste-paper boards backed with black morocco, gilt titling to spine. A hint of toning to spine..... More
Tokyo: Kodansha, (1978). Quarto. 452 pp. One of 1000 copies. With numerous text illustrations, photographs in black and white, and 85 leaves of tipped-in paper samples subsequent to the text. Bound in quarter blue cloth and handmade paper boards, spine lettered in silver and red. Housed in a brown cloth..... More
Oldham, England: Incline Press, 1999. Quarto. 95pp. One of 250 copies, of which this is one of twenty-five copies with a unique ebru frontispiece, matched binding, and box. Each month of Muir's year is introduced by a fold-out sample of her marbled paper. Line drawings of cats appear throughout the..... More
Cornwall, CT: Robert Andrew Parker, 2011. 12mo. 28ff. From an edition of ten copies, this is an artist's proof, signed by the artist and printer, Robert Andrew Parker, and with twenty-eight illustrations hand-colored by him. This unsettling book depicts often strange examples of German words for each letter of the..... More
Flansham: Greenleaf Press, 1917. (9)ff. Small quarto. A portfolio of eight wood engravings in black & white, with the title page printed in copper ink. The publication and illustrations were done by Stuart, Robin, and John Guthrie, the sons of James Guthrie of the Pear Tree Press. The Greenleaf Press..... More
Flansham: Greenleaf Press, (1915). 16mo. (16)pp. Inscribed, "With best wishes from the folk at Flansham. Xmas 1915," and illustrated with nine tipped-in engravings. The publication and illustrations were done by Stuart, Robin, and John Guthrie, the sons of James Guthrie of the Pear Tree Press. This is the first book..... More
(Flansham): Pear Tree Press, (1920). Octavo. 25pp. This collection of short children's poems is heavily illustrated with wood engravings by Stuart Guthrie, son of Pear Tree Press founder James Guthrie. The six full-page illustrations and fourteen smaller images used as head- and tailpieces are printed in four colors: blue, green..... More
(Easthampton, MA): Pennyroyal Press, 1977. Small quarto. (28)ff. From an edition of 200 copies, this is a lettered copy not noted in the Pennyroyal Checklist. Signed by both the author, Arthur MacAlpine, and the printer, Barry Moser. Includes five wood engravings by Moser. Printed in brown and black on light..... More
Minneapolis: Pentagram Press, 1988. Octavo. (22)ff. One of 176 copies, signed by Will Powers at his contribution, and by Michael Tarachow, the printer. A group of quotations on printing, in various colors and typefaces, with many ornaments, a tipped-in sample of marbled paper, and a tipped-in photo of type. Fine..... More
Mount Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1969. Small octavo. 39pp. One of 200 copies. Symbolic frontispiece, which is explained at the colophon. Eiseley's essays, entitled "The Brown Wasps," "Big Eyes and Little Eyes," and "Endure the Night", explore the complications of self-reflection, with semi-fictional digressions evocative of feeling more than fact..... More
Minor Confluence, WI: Perishable Press, 1976. 12 1/2 by 20 inches. One of an edition of 50 copies. A black & white drawing by Sarah Freckelton of a sock thrown over the back of a chair on the seat of which sits a flowerpot of crocuses illustrates a journal entry..... More
Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, (1970). Octavo. (11) ff. One of 183 copies. With an inscription by James Laughlin. A short collection of poems by the poet and legendary founder of New Directions, which published some of the most important writers of the twentieth century, including Ezra Pound, William Carlos..... More
(Mount Horeb, WI): Perishable Press, 2003. Small quarto. (20)ff. One of 109 copies. The four artists contributed a total of ten illustrations, hand-printed from unmounted eleven-point dies, in a variety of colors. The book also employs five typefaces hand-set in five different sizes and imprinted on five different mould-made papers..... More
NY: Peter Blum Edition, 1987. Octavo. (114)pp. One of 940 copies. Illustrated with 25 duotone full-page offset lithographs after etchings by Marden. Translated by Kenneth Rexroth. Marden's sparse etchings mirror the vulnerability of Tu Fu's poetry, reducing the feelings Fu's verses evoke into powerful swaths of black and grey. Brightly..... More
Goshen, NH: Phineas Press, 1973. Small broadside measuring 12 7/8 by 6 3/8 inches. One of 100 copies. Illustrated and designed by Caldecott Award-winner Nonny Hogrogian, with a line drawing of two sleeping cats. A dreamy poem about the anticipation of starting a new garden after moving to New Hamphire..... More
(Verona: Plain Wrapper Press, 1980). Quarto. 7, (1)pp. One of 155 copies signed by the author. Inscribed by the author to the distinguished New York antiquarian bookseller John Fleming in 1981: "For John Fleming, who is no more in need of instruction in the art of wooing than was J...... More
Los Angeles: Zamorano Club, 1964. Small quarto. (xvi), 62pp. One of 150 copies. Eight plates, most recreating title pages. A perusal of the spread and impact of American drinking habits, from rum to wine. Bound in buckram with pictorial paper over boards. Fine. More
