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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Poestenkill, NY: Kaldewey Press, 2009. Quarto. (14)ff. One of 35 copies. Illustrated with ten folded watercolor paintings by Gunnar Kaldewey. The text is taken from its first appearance in the 1860 Boston edition of Leaves of Grass, and is printed in silver on gray-blue pastepaper that resembles early denim. Together..... More
Marlborough & Leominster, Herefordshire: Marlborough College Press & Whittington Press, 1949 & 1998. Here, an original out-of-series copy of the litany, which was printed in 1949 in an edition of seventy copies by the Marlborough College Press, has been reinvigorated and repackaged by John Randle of the Whittington Press. Randle..... More
Risbury, Herefordshire: Whittington Press, 1999. Large quarto. 85pp., + 38 paper specimens tipped in. One of 300 copies. In 1986, the Oxford University Press moved its paper warehouse, selling to Whittington Press many of its remaining paper specimens from books printed at OUP from the turn of the twentieth century..... More
Leominster, Herefordshire: Whittington Press, 1997. Folio. (61)pp. One of 440 copies. Signed by Craig. Eighty-one engravings and three two-color linocuts adorn Craig's verses, giving life to the flora, fauna, and landscapes he describes. Bound in gray cloth with patterned paper over boards. Housed in matching slipcase. Fine. Top edge blue..... More
(Fullerton, CA: Lorson's Books & Prints / Whittington Press, 1986). (16)ff. From an edition of 200 copies printed at the Whittington Press for Lorson's Books & Prints, this is one of fifty deluxe copies with an extra set of proofs. Contains thirteen beautiful hand-colored wood engravings of wine-related activities. Very..... More
Andoversford, Gloucestershire: Whittington Press, 1987. Quarto. xii, 105pp. From an edition of 335 copies, this is one of 85 deluxe, alternatively bound and with five additional full sheets of pattern paper. This publication was inspired by the discovery of a cache of Curwen Pattern Papers. It contains a history of..... 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: 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
(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
Jena: Eugen Diderichs, 1913 (but 1922). Folio. (15)ff., loose, as issued. From an edition of 250 copies, fifty were hand-colored; this appears to be a regular edition copy (number 111 and with the regular edition's black-printed portfolio) that has been hand-colored out of series. Each of the seven lithographs is..... More
Jena: Eugen Diedrichs, (1922). Elephant folio. (12)ff., loose, as issued. One of 250 copies, signed by Wolf in pencil on the eleven sheets of wood engravings. The engravings represent the height of Wolf's artistic vision, evincing an accomplished eye for contrast, while also drawing upon a cross-section of styles, from..... 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
Poestenkill, NY: Kaldewey Press, 1995. Square quarto. (10)ff. From an edition of sixty copies, this is one of ten deluxe printed on white and brown Chinese paper. Signed by the artist, Richard Tuttle. Intriguingly constructed with paper in two different orientations, such that the leaves of text and illustration are..... More
Providence, RI: Ziggurat Press, (1992). Octavo. (32)pp., accordionfold. One of thirty copies, signed by Feldman, who conceived, cut, and printed the color woodcut illustrations, over which he superimposed the text. A family affair and a work of love, Feldman has here published poems by his eight-year-old niece. Bound in boards..... More
Providence, RI: Ziggurat Press, 1987. Octavo. (14)ff., + 14 plates. One of thirty-five copies, signed on the front cover by Walter Feldman, the artist and printer. Fourteen of Shakespeare's sonnets are here printed in a range of colors, and each receives both a woodcut header and a facing woodcut plate..... More
