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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Cambridge, UK: Rampant Lions Press, 1988. Octavo. 94pp. One of thirty copies on handmade paper. Inscribed by the author. A historical consideration of the Daniel Press and some of the more obscure poets published by the Press. Fine in quarter morocco with matching slipcase. More
Maple Shade, NJ: Pickering Press, 1985. Octavo. (28)pp., frenchfold. One of 100 copies printed in black and brown. "A warm, witty, wry collection of observations by famous (& infamous) writers who 'draw the line in such a way as to define themselves.'" (Prospectus). This charming little book is printed in..... More
Maple Shade, NJ: Pickering Press, 1984. Octavo. (18)pp. One of 100 copies. Highly illustrated with wood engravings printed in blue and black, including a frontispiece of Pickering and various printer's devices. Afterword by the printer, John Anderson. Example of Pickering's work tipped in. Bound in blue wrappers with decorative paper..... More
Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Library, 1980. Quarto. 19pp. One of 90 copies. This book, printed in two colors, was produced in honor of Anderson's 65th birthday, is illustrated with wood engravings by John DePol, and includes contributions from seven people, including DePol, Claire Van Vliet and Harry Volk, Jr. Trace..... More
Council Bluffs, Iowa: Yellow Barn Press, 1986. Octavo. xvi, 39pp., + 4ff. of samples. One of 150 copies. Inscribed at the colophon by DePol and the printer, Neil Shaver, to Alan Dietch. A colorful selection of DePol's woodcut patterns presented as zinc engravings and, at the appendix, as tip-ins. As..... More
Colombes, France: Collectif Génération, 1990. Square octavo. (15)ff. One of 60 copies, signed by the author, Marcelin Pleynet, and the illustrator, Bertrand Dorny. With imaginative engraved and blind-stamped illustrations throughout, to accompany Pleynet's modernist text. Many of the pages fold out to give the reader the feeling of discovery and..... More
(Paris: Didot, Firmin, c. 1870). Folio. 72ff., consisting of the first 24 gatherings repeated three times. With fine steel engravings by Jules Jean Marie Joseph Huyot. Printed on vellum in red and black. It appears this work, a late collaboration between Ambroise Firmin Didot and Huyot, was never published and..... More
Hammersmith: Doves Press; Hammersmith Publishing Society, 1900; 1902. Two octavo volumes. (iv) 10pp.; (40)pp. The Ideal Book is one of 300 copies and is George Parker Winship's copy, with his bookplate to the front paste-down. Only the second title to have been issued by the Doves Press, the essay by..... More
(Hammersmith: Doves Press, 1912). Octavo. 60pp. One of 200 copies on paper, from an edition of 215. With three initials printed in red. The text is taken from the edition of 1593, with corrections laid out in a page of errata opposite the colophon. Announced for publication in October, 1912..... 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
(N.p. William Addison Dwiggins, n.d.). A single bifold sheet, with a pochoir-printed border in gray and Christmas greeting in red. Held in a paper envelope with matching border, and with the inscription to the addressee in pencil "from WAD." John W. Borden was a San Francisco-based book collector and amateur..... More
(NY: New Directions, 1969). Oblong quarto. 33pp. One of 100 copies printed at the Thistle Press and signed by the illustrator, Fritz Eichenberg. Illustrated with five full-page wood engravings in black & white. With an extra suite of the plates, each one signed by the artist. Suite is housed in..... More
Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1883. Octavo. An elaborate birthday card, with two color illustrations of flowers in vases on the interior panels. The left-hand panel bears a short poem, and the right-hand panel offers the recipient best wishes for their next year. Both are printed on pillowed silk. Bound..... More
(Darmstadt: Ernst Ludwig Presse, 1911). Quarto. (120)pp. From an edition of 500 copies, this is one of fifty printed on Japon. Title-page calligraphy and 150 decorated initials designed by Friedrich Wilhem Kleukens. The text of the Press's fifteenth book is Martin Luther's translation from the last edition of the German..... More
London: Guild and School of Handicraft, Essex House, 1894. Octavo. 166pp. Ornaments on the prefatory material and the final page evince Ashbee's skills Art Nouveau style, and bring illustrative care and craftsmanship to Ashbee's treatise on what makes for good citizenship in an increasingly industrial state. Bound in full red..... 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
Decorah, IA: Solmentes Press, 2017. Oblong small quarto. (68)pp. From an edition of forty copies, this is one of five deluxe copies. Signed by artist at colophon. Thirty-six woodcut and linocut images together with separate blueprint for a pizza oven. Together, the illustrations create a visual narrative of how Esslemont..... More
(Oakland: Eucalyptus Press, 1989). Folio. (6)ff. One of seventeen copies. Illustrated throughout with linoleum block prints altered so that the images in each book are slightly different. One two-page spread depicts the foolish villagers peeking over the edge of the soup pot with surprised expressions on their faces. Printed, illustrated..... More
(N.p. Ferguson, William, n.d.). Print measuring 10 1/4 by 13 inches. One of 76 copies. A windmill design in green and brown, with the words "arena," "monte," "cielo," and "nieve" on the four blades. SIgned by the artist. Fine. More
Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1928. Octavo. (iii), 26pp. Illustrated with a wood engraving by David Jones of a Dominican friar on the title page and for January, as well as thirteen other wood engravings by Mary Dudley Short. A calendar listing the saint's days and other holy celebrations for each..... More
St-Zotique, Quebec: Cat's Head Press, 2008. Quarto. (48)pp. One of 114 copies. Illustrated throughout with a signed pochoir print by Jef Aerosol, a relief print by Melissa Schulenberg, a stencil by Guy Berard, and an abundance of found images and stencils by the staff at the Cat's Head Press. Printed..... More
Vancouver, BC: Muddy Foot Press, (1990). Oblong quarto. (64)pp. One of fifty copies. Illustrated with tipped-in color photographs by Kendall Townend. The photographs were taken between 1984-87 at different seasons in Toronto in the area south of Finch and east of Bayview along the Don River valley. Title page, colophon..... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 1980. Tall quarto. Unpaginated. One of 275 copies, signed by Andrew Hoyem, the printer, and by Ray Bradbury, who wrote the Introduction. A strikingly visual presentation of this science fiction classic. Illustrated with die cutouts of geometric shapes, all of which have been hand-colored. Bound concertina-style..... More
Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press, 1926. Small quarto. v, (i), 94, 1pp. A collection of Aesop's much-celebrated and much-cited fables, some illustrated with bold wood engravings by Celia M. Fiennes. In keeping with the Golden Cockerel Press's tradition of creating limited editions of classic masterworks, this representation was reprinted from Sir..... More
Detroit, Cranbrook Press, 1902. Octavo. 40pp. One of 210 copies, printed by the author, George G. Booth, who was the co-founder of the Cranbrook Press. A group of essays of a philosophical and personal nature, one set in Naples and one in Mexico. With decorative interlace initials to each chapter..... More
