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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Hammersmith: Doves Press, 1948. Octavo. 26pp. One of 300 copies, printed in red and black. This copy was formerly owned by David McKibbin, a major collector of John Singer Sargent. Bound in vellum-backed blue paper over boards, with the Club of Odd Volumes seal gilt-stamped to upper cover. Edges of..... 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
Dublin: Dun Emer Press, 1904. Octavo. (viii), 128pp. One of 300 copies. The third book of the press, run by W. B. Yeats and his sister, Elizabeth Corbet Yeats. Colophon and limitation statement in red, text printed in black. Scant soiling and bump to tail of lower board, small water..... More
NY: Typophiles, 1960. Two 12mo. volumes. xiii, 271pp. One of 1050 copies. Published as Typophile Chap Books nos. 35 and 36. These volumes contain a collection of essays edited by Paul A. Bennett, contributed by Dorothy Abbe, Mabel Dwiggins, Rudolph Ruzicka, and others, with a selective checklist compiled by Dorothy..... 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: 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
New Rochelle, NY: Elston Press, 1902. Octavo. (viii), 116pp. One of 160 copies. Sharp and robust title pages and initials by H. M. O'Kane, expressing the clear influences of William Morris at the Kelmscott Press and Charles Ricketts at the Vale Press. Keats' celebrated love poem printed in red and..... More
(London: Essex House Press, 1901). 16mo. 400pp. One of 250 copies printed under the care of C.R. Ashbee. With a wood-engraved pictorial frontispiece by Reginald Savage, and numerous initials surrounded by flowers called "pinks," designed by Ashbee. Woolman, an eighteenth-century New Jersey Quaker, advocated the simple and unostentatious life, and..... 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
California: Ettan Press, 1978. Octavo. 17pp. One of 90 copies. Six color engravings by von Mengershausen, all numbered and signed with the artist's monogram. These illustrations, with earthy colors washed over classical imagery - a bas-relief, an amphitheater, statuary, and geological outcroppings - emphasize Holderlin's belief in the connection between..... 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
Milan: Ing. C. Olivetti & C., 1978. Quarto. lxx, (36), 109, (5)pp. One of 250 copies. From the series "Documenti sulle arti de libro", of which this is number twelve. A studious discussion of manuscripts, with Bussi's introduction in Italian followed by facsimile manuscript pages and transliterations in Latin. Bound..... 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, 1923. Quarto. (ii), 75pp. One of 220 copies, printed in red and black with musical notations. Contains twelve wood engravings by Eric Gill and two by Desmond Chute. The book was printed for actual use by Dominican novices. A copy was displayed in the permanent exhibition..... More
(Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1896). Folded sheet measuring 16 3/4 by 11 1/2 inches, comprising pp. 1-2, and 15-16 of the Kelmscott Chaucer. This bifolium contains the magnificent opening of the Canterbury Tales with the woodcut by Edward Burne-Jones showing Chaucer holding a book and a pen while standing in a...... More
(Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1968). Square octavo. 23ff. One of 250 copies, of which this is one of 70 in the first binding by Arno Werner, whose copy this was. Inscribed by Harold McGrath, the pressman, to Werner at the colophon. A collection of head and tailpieces from 16th- and 17th-century..... More
Club of Printing House Craftsmen, 1940-1949. Eleven 48mo. volumes. Variously paginated. Each volume was produced as a limited edition keepsake for the area's club members. Most of the clubs represented are on the West Coast. The titles include: Pioneer Printers of the Far West (San Francisco, 1940), The Spirit of..... More
Poestenkill, NY: Kaldewey Press, 2007. Octavo. (21)ff. One of twenty-one copies, inscribed by the artist, Gunnar Kaldewey, in addition to a signature at the colophon. A retelling of a Japanese folktale, lustrously illustrated with leaves of watercolors interleaved with uncut sheets of tissue. Stab-bound with rivets in red, blue, and..... 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
Nevada City, CA: Berliner, Harold, 1988. Quarto. 105pp. One of 150 copies. This copy inscribed by the printer to wood engraver John DePol, with his bookplate and signature to front paste-down. Design and frontispiece illustration by Lederer. Translated by C. F. MacIntyre and printed in French and English, on opposing..... More
Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1969. Folio. (70)pp. From an edition of 200 copies, this is an out-of-series printer's copy inscribed by Leonard Baskin to Arno Werner, who bound the book. One of the major productions of Baskin's Gehenna Press. Illustrated with ten etchings by Baskin, nine of which are signed..... More
Lexington, KY: Stamperia del Santuccio, 1951. Octavo, 182pp. One of 152 unnumbered copies printed by Carolyn Reading in black and red American Uncial type on Japanese Hosho paper. Translated from the German by Victor Hammer and Thornton Sinclair with an introduction by Hammer. Autograph note from Hammer to Florentine scholar..... More
Flansham: Greenleaf Press, (1915). 16mo. (16)pp. Inscribed, "With best wishes from the folk at Flansham. Xmas 1915," and illustrated with nine tipped-in engravings. The publication and illustrations were done by Stuart, Robin, and John Guthrie, the sons of James Guthrie of the Pear Tree Press. This is the first book..... More
(Boston: Godine Press, c. 1970). Framed etching measuring 11 by 8 inches. One of an unknown number of copies; the edition was probably no greater than 200. An image of an early flying machine crashed and abandoned in a field of clover, printed in green with a caption printed in..... More
Poestenkill, NY: Kaldewey Press, 1991. Extreme oblong quarto. 14pp., leporello. One of 40 copies, signed by the artist/printer, Gunnar Kaldewey. Kaldewey offers a poetic, intimate encounter with and a nostalgic history of one of America's most visited and inspiring rivers. The Hudson River was followed a year later by Volume..... More
