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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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
Goole, UK: Chevington Press, 2015. Square quarto. (17)ff. One of forty-five copies. Signed by the artist, D.R. "Bob" Wakefield. Thirteen etchings printed in color and black-and-white, the contrast of which evokes the vulnerability of the species. Wakefield continues his exploration of endangered and extinct mammals with this in-depth study 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
NY: 6x9 Press, 1957. Oblong octavo. 12ff., frenchfold. Limitation not noted, but one of 80 copies. Illustrated with nine hand-colored linocuts by Seymour Chwast. With an Introduction by Chwast's cousin Dachine Rainer, the anarchist writer whose novella, A Room at the Inn, would be published the following year. An early..... More
Market Drayton: Tern Press, 1987. Folio. (60)pp. One of 90 copies signed by Nicholas and Mary Parry, the printers. Clare's delightful verses "...mark the nests of many sorts/ & which in building most excells/ the number of their eggs to note/ & curious colour of the shells," was written in..... 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
(N.p.): 1961. 24mo. (36)ff. A collection of short publications by various presses, including the Seredipity Press, Glad Hand Press, and Mermaid Press, all printed on different papers and with varying degrees of ornamentation. Fine in black cloth over boards. Errata sheet laid in. More
(Boston): David R. Godine, (1971). Quarto. 4ff., 26ff. One of 100 copies. Unbound as issued, and presented in thirteen blue-green paper folders. Each folder contains a signed etching by Coughlin. These etchings are portraits of the authors whose work has been selected by Robin Skelton, and the pairing of the..... More
NY: Benjamin Blom, Inc., 1972. Folio. 202, (5)pp. Publisher's facsimile of the famed edition of Hamlet issued by the Cranach Press in 1929. With reprints of Edward Johnston's typography, Edward Gordon Craig's 74 woodcuts, and Eric Gill's contributions of two initials, the title over the first woodcut, and spine titling..... More
(Thetford, VT): Cricket Press, 1965. Quarto. (12)ff. One of twenty-two copies. Subtitled "The First Miracle, John 2," the book tells the story of the Wedding at Cana. The text is printed in red, and faces the tipped-in illustrations. Heavily influenced by Leonard Baskin's early work, there are nine exquisitely fine..... More
Boston: Impressions Workshop Inc./Cricket Press, 1965. Square quarto. (16)ff. One of 150 copies, signed on the colophon page by the poet, Bernard Bockes, and the illustrator, George Lockwood. Illustrated with fifteen fanciful woodcuts by Lockwood depicting insects, bats, dragons, and mythical beasts. Some are monochromatic prints, but others incorporate many..... More
(Thetford, VT: Cricket Press, 1962). Quarto. (20)pp. One of 50 copies. Printed in red and black, with one illustration by Gillian Tyler. Contains five poems by May Miller, one of the greatest playwrights of the Harlem Renaissance. While less known as a poet, Miller composed verse throughout her life and..... More
(Thetford: Cricket Press, 1967). Quarto. (6)ff. One of forty-two copies, conceived, illustrated, and executed by Gillian Tyler. A short narrative poem printed on pale green paper, and illustrated with a single wood engraving in the style of Leonard Baskin, who was Tyler's teacher at Smith College. Internally fine, bound in..... More
Pinner, Middlesex: Cuckoo Hill Press, 1961. 16mo. (15)pp. One of 111 copies. An accounting of the construction of the Office Press at Cuckoo Hill, with two diagrams as illustrations. Fine in burgundy wrappers. More
Cummington, MA: Cummington Press, 1941. Octavo. (52)pp. One of 300 copies. A fascinating account of mid-nineteenth-century whaling endeavors. Minor soiling to spine, else fine in beige linen. The first book of the Press. More
Andoversford, Gloucestershire: Whittington Press, 1987. Quarto. xii, 105pp. One of 335 copies. This edition was inspired by the discovery of a cache of Curwen Pattern Papers. It contains a history of the papers with 32 large samples by fifteen prominent artists, such as Eric Ravilious, Enid Marx, Thomas Lowinsky, and..... 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
Oxford: Daniel Press, 1901. Octavo. (xii), 53pp. One of 130 copies, of which this is copy number one. The author's first book. Contains forty-three short poems on religious and emotional subjects, each dated by hand. Bound by Emily Daniel, as a distinct hand at the rear flyleaf states. Some spotting..... More
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
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Books, 1983. Octavo. 21pp. One of 275 copies. Title-page embellishment by DePol. A Sherlock Holmes mystery of sorts, set in the enigmatic book trade. Faint fading to edges, else find in orange wrappers. 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
(Rochester, NY): Leopard Studio Editions, 2014. (24)pp., accordion-fold, with two four-page inserts sewn in. One of five copies, signed and numbered by the artist. A miniature artist's book by Sue Huggins Leopard based on the poem by Emily Dickinson, which reads: "Love is anterior to life, / Posterior to death..... More
Cambridge, MA: Dept. of Printing and Graphic Arts, Harvard College, 1968. Square 16mo. (8)ff. One of 500 copies, signed by the artist. Marie Angel, who also contributed illustrations to A. Colish's 1974 edition of The Velveteen Rabbit, here adorns Dickinson's two poems with a diverse array of butterflies set softly..... 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
