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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Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1926. Small quarto. 15pp. One of 250 numbered copies. The text is illustrated with six wood engravings by Eric Gill. The engravings are beautifully rendered interpretations of scenes from the last day of Jesus's life, from his vigil at the Garden of Gethsemane, to... More
Flemington, NJ: St. Teresa's Press, 1965. Small quarto. 31pp. One of 150 copies. Printed and bound at the Carmelite Monastery. Twenty-one canticles printed in Cancelleresca Bastarda using brown ink, each with an initial capital illuminated with 23-karat gold. Toning to top edge and spine, with a hint of wear to... 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
Pasadena, CA: Archetype Press, 2005. Folio. (45)ff. One of 80 copies. Contains thirty-seven illustrations depicting American inventions ranging from the profound (Morse code, cloning, etc.) to the underappreciated (American cheese singles, flyswatter, etc.). Printed using "metal foundry type, wood type, linoleum blocks, laser-cut masonite, and digital polymer plates." Occasionally mixed... More
Flemington, NJ: St. Teresa's Press, 1970. Small quarto. 33pp. One of 125 copies printed on handmade paper. A beautiful book of familiar passages from the prophets, with a hand-illuminated title page and stylized opening initials in gold, silver, and other colors. Printed at the cloistered monastery of St. Teresa, this... 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
Great Barrington, MA: Michael McCurdy, 2004. Quarto. One of eight copies. A suite of twenty-five laser prints of drawings by Michael McCurdy, each hand-colored, signed, and numbered by the artist. The drawings were originally done by McCurdy at the request of the University Press of Kansas, which commissioned the artist... More
(Boston): Riverside Press, 1909. Quarto. (xx), 332, (vii)pp. One of 370 copies. The text is translated from Auguste Bernard’s second edition and contains a biography, iconography, and bibliography. In order to harmonize with Tory’s border woodcuts, Rogers printed this handsome book in Riverside Caslon, one of the typefaces which he... More
Hammersmith: Doves Press, 1911. Octavo. 12pp. Second edition. One of 350 copies. Included are descriptions of all books printed to that date, the introduction by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson from the first edition of 1908, and his additional comments for this edition. Expected toning to extremities, else a fine copy in... More
(N.p. Michael Mar Press, 1977). Small quarto. (16)ff. One of twelve copies, hand-produced by jewelry designer Michael Dorsa and bookbinder Margaret Rhein. With twelve color illustrations. The text and images were both from an original work written and drawn in 1964 by Mike Dorsa and Tom Warner, age nine. In... More
(Hamburg): Raamin-Presse, 1982. Folio. xxxxi, (7)pp. From an edition of 220 copies, this is one of forty copies signed by the printer and illustrator, Roswitha Quadflieg, with an additional suite of illustrations for the historiated initials printed on a single sheet, also signed by Quadflieg. The Grimm Brothers' tale is... More
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1952. Tall quarto. 80pp. One of 360 copies. Illustrated by John Buckland Wright with eight aquatints, printed from the copper plates. A lush example of Buckland Wright's style, with particularly impressive shading and detail not found in other instances of his work. Bound in green half-cloth... More
(London): 1932. Quarto. Unpaginated. One of 530 copies, printed and published by Rogers, Sir Emery Walker, and Wilfred Merton. Illustrated with twenty-six decorations of Homeric figures printed in black on round backgrounds of gold. It was Rogers who, upon reading Seven Pillars of Wisdom, decided that T. E. Lawrence would... More
Ditchling: St. Dominic's Press, 1934. Small quarto. 79pp. One of 250 copies, signed and numbered by the author, Hilary D. C. Pepler. An essay written and hand-printed by Pepler for the Society of Typographic Arts in Chicago. Illustrated with two wood engravings by David Jones and many facsimile examples of... More
Berkeley: Pycroft and Doran, 1987. Oblong 64mo., measuring 4 1/4 by 3 3/8 inches. (32)pp. From an edition of 86 copies, this is one of twenty-six lettered copies. Signed by the author. A Sherlock Holmes-themed alphabet, with each letter represented by four rhyming lines such as "O is for Orange... More
North Hills: Bird & Bull Press, 1964. Octavo. 91pp. One of 200 copies. A biography on the life and work of Thomas Bird Mosher, the remarkable New England publisher and literary pirate. The Passionate Pirate is one of Henry Morris's earlier titles. In making it, he was plagued with both... More
Alford, MA: 1962. Small quarto. 28ff. One of forty copies. Etched title page and twenty-six fine etchings by Fink, ranging thematically from portraits to botany to insects. Many of Fink's etchings have a decidedly Baskinesque aesthetic, but Fink's circle centered primarily in New York, where he was friendly with Jack... More
(Wakefield, Yorkshire): Fleece Press, (1986). Large quarto. (10)pp., + (19)ff. One of 200 copies printed from the original blocks on handmade paper. Illustrated with twenty wood engravings by Underwood that were cut in the 1920s and 1930s. Underwood's Brook Green School produced a great many accomplished wood engravers, among them... More
(Wakefield, Yorkshire): Fleece Press, (1986). Large quarto. (10)pp., + (19)ff. Of an edition of 200 copies, this is one of twelve bound by James Brockman. Printed from the original blocks on handmade paper. Illustrated with twenty wood engravings by Underwood that were cut in the 1920s and 1930s. Underwood's Brook... More
Denby Dale: Fleece Press, (1995). Folio. 80pp. One of 240 copies. When John Buckland Wright died in 1954 his studio contained a number of his engraved woodblocks, mostly those for which he had a particular fondness. This volume publishes "all the engravings of bathers or of women in watery landscapes... More
(Wakefield, West Yorkshire): Fleece Press, 1993. Octavo. 28pp., + 42ff. One of 206 copies. Illustrated with forty-one plates of Buckland Wright's wood engravings, which represent a cross-section of his work in white line and silhouette engraving between 1929 and 1954. Extremely fine in vellum-backed Japanese wood veneer paper boards, housed in publisher's slipcase. More
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1981. 29pp. One of 400 copies, signed by President Gerald R. Ford. The text is an address given to the Visa International Convention in Quebec, in September 1980, in which Ford advocates for world peace for economic purposes. He was the only president to collaborate... More
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1981. 29 pp. From an edition of 400, this is one of 100 copies specially bound by Bela Blau. Signed by President Gerald R. Ford. The text of a September 1980 address given to the Visa International Convention in Quebec encouraging world peace for economic... More
(Salem: Colonial Society, 1939). First separate edition, which consisted of fewer than 100 copies. A single folded sheet with one page of type, printed by Dard Hunter II at the MIT Paper Museum Press. Inscribed by Frost to Martin K. Howes at foot of poem. Frost read this delightful piece... More
South Freeport, ME: Ascensius Press, 2015. Small quarto. 44ff. From an edition of forty-one, this is one of twenty-six lettered copies, bound in full calf. Frost's second book of poetry is here published in a centenary edition by Scott Vile of the Ascensius Press. In homage to Joseph Blumenthal, Frost's... More
