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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North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1982. Octavo. 137pp. One of 500 copies. Facsimiles of two important essays on printing by Richard Atkins and the first specimen book by Caslon; introduced and commented upon by Cary S. Bliss. Very fine in tan buckram, with title-label on spine. Prospectus laid-in. (Bird..... More
New Castle, DE: Bird & Bull Press, 1980. Octavo. (13)pp. One of 250 copies. An amusing recounting of an encounter between a savvy bookseller and a clumsy customer. Minor fading to spine, else fine in tan wrappers. More
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1985. Octavo. (17)pp. One of 300 copies. Designed by Abe Lerner. A transcription of "an imperceptibly edition version of a talk given April 5, 1982" to the Friends of the Book Arts Press at Columbia University. Spine sunned, else near fine in tan wrappers..... More
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1982. One of 350 copies printed at the Bird & Bull Press and bound by Gray Parrot in morocco-backed Japanese paper. Edited, and with a Prologue by Colin Franklin. Extremely fine. Prospectus laid-in. More
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1971. Quarto. 67pp. One of 255 copies. Contains some amusing essays on paper-making, and some paper samples, including two made "with the cooperation of certain local wasps." A brief history of printing gives credit to "a man named Gutenberg, probably a foreigner," who "wanted..... More
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1987. Oblong octavo. 77pp.(25) ff. One of 325 copies. The first third of this handsome book consists of correspondence between Hans Schmoller and Morris dealing with the problems of the book itself. The second part by Tanya Schmoller is text about the Chinese tea chest..... More
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1984. Quarto. x, 49, 24 pp. + (31)ff. One of 500 copies. Contains three foldout plates, nineteen color reproductions of Japanese watercolors, and 30 illustrated facsimile pages of an eighteenth century Japanese papermaking manual. These woodcut facsimiles are printed on handmade Japanese gampi paper..... More
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1983. Oblong 12mo. 64pp., + (14)ff. One of 350 copies. An interesting, historic account on marbling taken from the Journal of the Franklin Institute of 1829. Minor toning to spine, some edgewear, else near fine in marbled boards, backed with gilt-stamped blue morocco. Prospectus..... More
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 1985. Octavo. 161pp. One of 325 copies. Illustrated with eighteen black & white photographs and drawings, fourteen full-color photographs of Kinder's bindings, and thirteen pages of black & white impressions of Kinder's bookbinding stamps. A thorough examination of one of America's finest binders and of..... More
(Parma: Stamperia Reale, 1779). Octavo. xii, 296pp. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the poetess crowned with a laurel wreath, eleven beautifully-engraved vignettes and twelve culs-de-lamp. This elegantly-printed volume was published in commemoration of the coronation of poet Maria Maddalena Morelli Fernandez with laurels on the Capitol in..... 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
Cambridge, MA: Bow & Arrow Press, 1993. Small quarto. (iv), 16pp. Deluxe edition, one of fifty copies, signed by the author, Melinda Marble, and artist, Michael Mazur, and with two original drypoint etchings. This first book by Marble is the haunting tale of a girl troubled by her origins, and..... More
Munich: Bremer Presse, 1931. Quarto. 158pp. One of 250 copies. A collection of songs by von der Vogelweide, a medieval poet and minstrel, whose songs are widely regarded as the pinnacle of the era's German love lyric. He is also responsible for using poetry to political ends, and was the..... More
(Wakefield, Yorkshire): Fleece Press, (1986). Large quarto. (10)pp., + (19)ff. From an edition of 200 copies, this is one of twelve bound by James Brockman. Illustrated with twenty wood engravings printed on handmade paper from the original blocks that were cut by Underwood in the 1920s and ‘30s. Underwood’s Brook..... More
Boston: Bromer, Anne & David, 1984. Quarto. 38pp. First edition. One of 225 copies printed in three colors by Richard Bigus at the Stinehour Press. Illustrated with two wood engravings by Greg Dearth and a specimen sheet printed in three colors on parchment. Hand-bound by Claudia Cohen in quarter-vellum and..... More
San Francisco: Amber House Press, 1964. Small quarto. (42)pp. First edition of Corrington's third published book of poetry. Illustrated with drawings by Ann Parisi, printed in silver, including a stylized skeleton across the covers. With an Introduction and cover blurb by Charles Bukowski. Printed by Frank Westlake at the Bindweed..... More
(Easthampton, MA): Chamberlain Press, 1978. 12mo. (12)ff. One of 120 copies, signed by the printer-illustrator. Printed in Goudy Bold, with titles and ornaments in pink, and ten wonderful wood engravings. Faint rubbing to extremities, else fine in paste-paper boards by Gray Parrot. Prospectus laid in. More
(Easthampton, MA): Chamberlain Press, 1978. Octavo. (6)ff., frenchfold. One of 100 copies, signed by the artist. Designed, printed, and illustrated by Chamberlain. Lear's poem tells of an old man "who invented a purely original dress"; it was edible. Printed in two colors on beige Japanese paper and illustrated with two..... More
(Northampton, MA): Cheloniidae Press, 1986. 12mo. (34)pp., accordion-fold. From an edition of 200 copies, this is one of five unnumbered artist proofs. Calligraphic letters, designed by Suzanne Moore, are blind-stamped one to a page of this lovely panorama, which folds out to over seven feet long. Bound by Claudia Cohen..... More
(N.p.): Cheloniidae Press, 1991. Quarto. (89)pp. One of 210 copies, signed by both Robinson and McGrath at the colophon. Illustrated throughout with head- and tail-pieces by Robinson, as well as an example of calligraphy by Suzanne Moore and one by Elizabeth Curtis. A celebration of McGrath upon the fiftieth anniversary..... More
Los Angeles: W. M. Cheney, 1953. Small octavo. xiv, 18pp. One of 100 copies. A satirically aloof academic text on Pig Latin. Fine in tan wrappers. More
Goole, UK: Chevington Press, 2010. Folio. (30)ff. One of thirty-five copies. Signed by the artist, D.R. "Bob" Wakefield. Twenty-seven color etchings, including a frontispiece, which depict various animals along with nameplates. Wakefield's fine hand imbues each creature - from the polar bear to the orangutan, the mountain tapir to the..... More
Goole, UK: Chevington Press, 2009. Folio. (30)ff. One of 55 copies. Signed by the artist, D.R. "Bob" Wakefield. Twenty-seven color etchings, including a frontispiece portrait of Wakefield. A stunning return to the natural history books he created in the 1980s, in which Wakefield takes the theme of mammalian extinction and..... More
London / NY: Williams and Norgate / Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. Small quarto. 154pp. One of 426 copies printed on handmade paper by the Chiswick Press. Signed by the translator, Edwin Marion Cox, below the colophon. Text in Greek and English, with title and initials printed in blue. Quarter vellum..... More
London: 1919. Single 9 1/4 by 6 1/2 inch sheet. Dated September 8, 1919. Cobden-Sanderson directs Millard on his desired bindings for three copies of the Doves Bible, one in blue and two in red. For two, the blue and one of the reds, Cobden-Sanderson provides one of his patterns..... More
