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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Munich: Bremer Presse, 1930. Quarto. 136, (8)pp. One of 280 copies. A collection of traditional early English and Scottish songs and ballads, handsomely printed, with initials designed by Anna Simons. Spine sunned, else fine, in light blue boards and spine label, and matching slipcase. More
Munich: Bremer Presse, 1931. Quarto. 238, (2)pp. One of 275 copies. A collection of sonnets by various English poets, from Sir Thomas Wyatt to Christina Rossetti, handsomely printed, with initials designed by Anna Simons. Includes Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Keats, E.B. Browning, Spenser, Donne, and Milton, among others. Minor edgewear and slight... More
Munich: Bremer Presse, 1931. Quarto. 238, (2)pp. One of 275 copies. A collection of sonnets by various English poets, from Sir Thomas Wyatt to Christina Rossetti, handsomely printed, with initials designed by Anna Simons. Includes Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Keats, E.B. Browning, Spenser, Donne, and Milton, among others. Spine sunned, else near... More
Tölz: Bremer Presse, 1920. Small quarto. 246pp. One of 270 copies. Printed in English in the roman type of Dr. Willi Wiegand with title and 60 initial letters by Anna Simons. One of the few books from Bremer Presse to be printed in English. Attractively bound in full vellum by... More
Munich: Bremer Presse, 1929. Quarto. 88pp. From an edition of 530 copies, this is one of 250 printed on handmade paper for Random House. The title and eight two-color initials were designed by Anna Simons. A fine copy in quarter-vellum with marbled paper-covered boards. Housed in red paper slipcase. Spine... More
Munich: Bremer Presse, 1922. Small quarto. 111pp. One of 280 copies. Titling and initials by Anna Simons. Goethe's reworking of Euripides' ancient Greek tragedy. Stamp at the bottom of interior of the rear board indicates that the volume was bound by the Bremer Bindery. Covers show shelf sunning and slight... More
Munich: Bremer Presse, 1922. Small quarto. 64pp. One of 200 copies. WIth nineteen initals by Anna Simons. A selection of Holderlin's works, including his seminal "Der Archipelagus", all rendered in a format familiar to the Bremer Presse. This copy rebound with new endpapers into three-quarter leather binding with marbled paper... More
(Munich): Bremer Presse, (1923-1924). Two folio volumes. 486; 372pp. One of 615 copies printed in Greek with titles by Anna Simons. These beautiful volumes are printed on Zanders handmade paper in a 16-point Greek type designed for the Press. Colin Franklin describes these books as “magnificent examples of controlled printing.”... More
Munich: Bremer Presse, (1923-1924). Folio. (482)pp. One of 615 copies. Printed entirely in Greek, save the appended commentary and colophon. Colin Franklin describes the book as a "magnificent example of controlled printing." Bound in full calf with gilt rules to covers and spine. Fine. Top edge red. (Franklin p.163). 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
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. Handbound by Claudia Cohen in quarter-vellum and... More
Waldron Island: Brooding Heron Press, 1993. 16mo. 35, (vi)pp. One of 300 copies. Poems selected and translated by Paul Hansen, who also provided the introduction. He-Jing's verses serve as witness to his own solitary activities, while at the same time providing a broader lens through which the reader may see... More
Maastricht: Halcyon Press, 1930. Small quarto. (70)pp. One of 376 copies, this printed on Dutch Pannekoek laid paper with the watermark of the Halcyon Press. Buckland Wright's characteristically rich woodcuts throughout. This is the first published book of John Buckland Wright, who had exhibited his early work in Belgium and... More
The Hague: J.B.W. Editions, 1935 (i.e. 1956). Small quarto. (14)pp. Although the colophon indicates a limitation of 50 copies, only 25 were actually bound and issued. This is the French version of the poem, printed for the artist in Holland before the war. Copies were available from Golden Cockerel at... More
Maastricht: Halcyon Press, 1932. Small quarto. 170pp. One of 206 copies. Buckland Wright's swarthy and sumptuous illustrations, one full-page wood engraving for each of the ten stories, invite the reader to fully engross themselves in Poe's twisted tales. Printed on Barcham Green's handmade paper with special watermark. Initials by A.... More
(Portland, OR): Chamberlain Press, 1984. Small octavo. (24)ff. One of 150 copies signed by Chamberlain. The text, translated by Boris Artzybasheff, is ornamented with ten full-page wood engravings by Chamberlain, each printed in black and three colors. Text pages are ornamented with leafy vines, printed in green. Extremely fine in... More
London: George Bell and Sons, 1903. Folio. 265pp. One of 200 copies. With frontispiece after the portrait of More by Hans Holbein, along with Holbein's renowned "memento mori" image of the island of Utopia fashioned after a skull. Printed by the Chiswick Press. Translated by Ralph Robynson, and appended with... More
NY: Glenn Horowitz, 1988. Small octavo. 9, (2)pp. One of 200 copies. Signed by the illustrator. A fine printing of Winston Churchill's letter of February 18, 1898 to Sir Algernon West, the twice-secretary to Prime Minister W. E. Gladstone. Churchill's relationship with West began after Churchill's father's death and West's... More
London: 1929; 1975. Bifolium. 4pp. Offprint from a children's annual containing original text and illustrations by Cox printed in two colors. Above the final illustration, Cox's name appears as "Mauris Cox." A story about a lazy boy who is cast out of his house by his mother; then, with 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
Detroit: Cranbrook Press, 1900. Small quarto. 86pp. One of 245 copies. Facsimile photograph and signature of author on frontispiece. A reprinting of Scripps' biography of Abraham Lincoln. Scripps' work marked the first personal history of Lincoln, and is here edited by Scripps' daughter Grace Locke Scripps Dyche. Bound in three-quarter... More
(Dublin): Dolmen Press, 1954. Tall octavo. 32pp. One of 225 copies. Printed in black with red initials and with a decorative title-page spread, two full-page illustrations, and six pictorial headpieces by Mia Cranwill. The tragic myth of Deirdre and the sons of Usnech, who were slain by the jealous Conchobor... More
Dublin: Cuala Press, 1941. Octavo. (xvi), (88)pp., unopened. First edition, limited to 500 copies. Title-page device of a hawk attacking a small bird by T. Sturge Moore, and colophon printed in red. A collection of letters, edited by Clifford Bax, between actress Florence Farr, playwright Bernard Shaw, and author W.... More
Dublin: Cuala Press, 1940. Octavo. (viii), (72)pp. First edition, limited to 450 copies. Illustrated with a unicorn device by Edmund Dulac on the title page. An essay which first appeared in "The Irish Statesman" in 1919, along with a second essay, "Swedenborg, Mediums, and the Desolate Places," written in 1914... 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
