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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(Easthampton, MA: Cheloniidae Press, 1980). Folio. (13)ff. One of 125 copies signed by the artist. The haunted tone of Poe's poetry is echoed in the five full-page etchings of The Raven by Alan James Robinson, who has titled and signed each one in pencil. This is Robinson's first interpretation of... More
NY: Glenn Horowitz, 1988. Small octavo. 9, (2)pp. One of 200 copies. Signed by the illustrator. A fine printing of Winston Churchill's letter of February 18, 1898 to Sir Algernon West, the twice-secretary to Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone. Churchill's relationship with West began after Churchill's father's death and West's... More
Guildford: Circle Press, 1986. Small folio. (36)pp., french-fold. From an edition of 80 copies, this is one of 65 comprising the regular edition. Signed by the illustrator, Ronald King, and the poet, Roy Fisher. Illustrated in color with numerous photo-collage vignettes, seven tableaux from drawings, and twelve movable puppet designs... More
(Guildford): Circle Press, (1978). Quarto. (4)pp. First edition. One of 100 copies, signed by author, Roy Fisher. This alphabet acrostic poem is illustrated with a pop-up "ABC" down the center of the spread. The pop-up was designed by Ronald King. This book was a precursor to the alphabet series printed... More
London: 1929; 1975. Bifolium. 4pp. Offprint from a children's annual containing original text and illustrations by Cox printed in two colors. Above the final illustration, Cox's name appears as "Mauris Cox." A story about a lazy boy who is cast out of his house by his mother; then, with the... More
Weimar: Cranach Press, 1938; 1939. Single leaf, plus 18ff. booklet. Proof of the first page of Robinson Crusoe, printed by Cranach Press in black and red, with two woodcut illustrations by Edward Gordon Craig. The proof is inscribed, "To D[aphne Woodward] from EGC 1938 Xmas," and further states, "Printed in... More
Dublin: Cuala Press, 1941. Octavo. (xvi), (88)pp., unopened. First edition, limited to 500 copies. Title-page device of a hawk attacking a small bird by T. Sturge Moore, and colophon printed in red. A collection of letters, edited by Clifford Bax, between actress Florence Farr, playwright Bernard Shaw, and author W.... More
Dublin: Cuala Press, 1940. Octavo. (viii), (72)pp. First edition, limited to 450 copies. Illustrated with a unicorn device by Edmund Dulac on the title page. An essay which first appeared in "The Irish Statesman" in 1919, along with a second essay, "Swedenborg, Mediums, and the Desolate Places," written in 1914... More
(Chicago): The Compulsive Printer, 1977. Octavo. (30)ff. From an edition of 75 copies signed by the artist, Joseph D'Ambrosio, and the printer, Elmore Mundell, this is one of twenty-five with an extra signed serigraph and deluxe binding. The text is James Joyce's take on Aesop's "The Fox and the Grapes."... More
Fullerton, CA: Stone & Lorson, 1988. Folio. iv, 9ff. One of 50 copies designed and bound by Joseph D'Ambrosio, and signed by him, Carolyn Johnson, and Carmen Voss, the hand-colorist. This twentieth-century leaf book contains an original leaf from a portfolio edition of John R. Wise's poem "The First of... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932. Octavo. 16pp. One of 300 copies. First edition of Bridges' poem, written to honor Emily Daniel, "In memory of the War-work done in the Provost's Lodgings at Worcester College, Oxford." In 1917, Mrs. Daniel invited members of the Oxford community to use the Provost's Lodgings at... More
Venezia: Antonio Zatta, 1757-1758. Four quarto volumes: L’Inferno, Il Purgatorio, Il Paradiso, Prose & Rime Liriche. (16), xlviii, ccccviii; ccccxiii, (3); cccclii, (4), 104; xii, 408, (4), 264, lxxxiv, (2)pp. Illustrated throughout with 114 engraved plates, by F. Giampiccoli, J. Magnini, F. Rizzi, and B. Crivelli, after works by Italian... More
(Den Haag: De Zilverdistel, 1918). Small octavo. 18ff. From an edition of 70 copies, this is one of twenty Roman numeral copies reserved for owners of the Press. This copy was designated for Nelly van Eyck-Benjamin, the wife of Dutch poet Pieter Nicolaas van Eyck, who was one of the... More
(Dublin): Dolmen Press, 1954. Tall octavo. 32pp. One of 225 copies. Printed in black with red initials and with a decorative title-page spread, two full-page illustrations, and six pictorial headpieces by Mia Cranwill. The tragic myth of Deirdre and the sons of Usnech, who were slain by the jealous Conchobor... More
Antwerp: J.E. Buschmann, 1896. Octavo. 61pp. From an edition of 112, this is one of twelve copies for private circulation, and signed by the printer, Buschmann. Illustrated throughout by with eight fine full-page woodcut plates, several text figures, head- and tailpieces, and decorated initial letters printed in black and brown... More
(N.p.): Paul Hayden Duensing, (1969). One of 300 copies. Broadside measuring 31 1/2 x 25 1/2 inches (800x317mm), printed by offset. A selection of typefaces offered by the Typefoundry, including borders, ornaments, Hieroglyphics, and Greek, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Hebrew, and Cherokee alphabets. One faint spot, else fine. More
(Boston): Boston Public Library, 1974. 12mo. 24pp. With a frontispiece portrait of Dwiggins. Fine copy in wrappers, illustrated with a Dwiggins ornament on front cover. "Abbe Talk, Boston Library '74" written in pen on front cover. More
(Hingham, MA: Püterschein-Hingham, 1952). One of 100 copies. A woodcut in four colors cut by W. A. Dwiggins in 1921 and printed for the first time by Dorothy Abbe in 1952 from the original blocks. The lovely woodcut, in blue, yellow, orange, and black, illustrates Stravinsky's ballet Petrouchka, which tells... More
NY: Limited Editions Club, 1932. Quarto. 23pp.,(4)ff. One of 452 copies signed by Dwiggins. Dwiggins facetiously discusses the atrocities of the present design of currency and postage stamps, proposing new ones based on those issued by the fictional country of the Antipodes. Includes plates of Antipodean stamps, and a currency... More
NY: Elston Press, 1901. Small quarto. (xv), 68pp. One of 485 copies on Holland hand-made paper, in boards with vellum spine. Unopened. Decorated with initials by H. M. O'Kane, floral devices, and a printer's device on the title page. The text is a 1345 treatise on book collecting written by... More
(Leipzig: Ernst Ludwig Presse, 1925-1931). Seven volumes, a complete set as published. One of 250 copies. Only 200 copies of the seventh volume were printed. The dedication notes that this edition was produced as an homage to T.J. Cobden-Sanderson and the German editions of Goëthe printed at the Doves Press... More
Chipping Campden: Essex House Press, 1904. Small quarto. lvi, 59pp. One of 75 copies. Illustrated with several full-page engravings of Dover's Hill and Campden landmarks by Edmund H. New, as well as a double-page map of Weston Subedge parish. Printed on Essex House paper and printed at the Press by... More
London: Guild & School of Handcraft, Essex House, 1896. Quarto. 36pp. First edition. Illustrated with thirteen plates, several of which are fold-outs. The book was created in an attempt to prevent the demolition of the seventeenth-century Trinity Hospital; in the end, the campaign was successful, and the building was saved... More
(Campden: Essex House Press, 1905). Octavo. 43pp. One of 125 copies, printed on vellum. Illustrated with a hand-colored frontispiece by Paul Woodroffe, and embellished with initials illuminated by hand in varying shades of green, blue, and red by Raymond Binns. This is the last volume of the "Great Poets" series... More
(Campden: Essex House Press, 1903). Octavo. (32) pp. One of 150 copies. With a frontispiece by William Strang; gilt opening initial and seven color initial captials by Florence Kingsford. This is the tenth volume in the Essex House "Great Poems" series and is printed entirely on vellum. In terms of... More
