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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Concord, MA: Sign of the Vine, (1903). 24mo. (20)pp. Titles and initals printed in red. The title page features a geometric design of rules and roses, reminiscent of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Mild toning to spine, else near fine in gray paper over boards with paper spine label. More about Rabbi Ben Ezra
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 about Ballads and Songs of Love
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 about Sonnets
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 about Sonnets
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 about The Essays of Francis Bacon
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 about Iphigenie auf Tauris
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 about Elegien
(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 the Bremer "Homerou poiesis" as “magnificent examples of... More about Ilias and Odusseia (The Iliad and The Odyssey
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 about Odyssey
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 about Walther von der Vogelweide
(New York & Munich): New York Academy of Medicine & the Library of the University of Munich, 1934. Large folio. (308)pp. One of 615 copies printed at the Bremer Presse from the original wood blocks. A monumental work that reproduces the 1543 Basel edition of Vesalius’s De Humanis Corporis Fabrica... More about Icones Anatomicae
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 about Horae Beatae Virginis Mariae, Juxta Ritum Sacri Ordinis Praedicatorum
(Wakefield, Yorkshire): Fleece Press, (1986). Large quarto. (10)pp., + (19)ff. From an edition of 200 copies, this is one of twelve bound by James Brockman. Illustrated with twenty wood engravings printed on handmade paper from the original blocks that were cut by Underwood in the 1920s and ‘30s. Underwood’s Brook... More about Leon Underwood: His Wood Engravings
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. Hand-bound by Claudia Cohen in quarter-vellum and... More about Mystique of Vellum. Containing an introduction by Dechard Turner and a historical essay on vellum...
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 about L' Apres-Midi d'un Faune: Eclogue
San Francisco: Amber House Press, 1964. Small quarto. (42)pp. First edition of Corrington's third published book of poetry. Illustrated with drawings by Ann Parisi, printed in silver, including a stylized skeleton across the covers. With an Introduction and cover blurb by Charles Bukowski. Printed by Frank Westlake at the Bindweed... More about Mr. Clean and Other Poems
(N.p.): Chamberlain Press, 1980. 24mo. (10)ff. One of 150 copies, signed by Chamberlain, with an ALs from her laid in. Illustrated with eleven wood engravings depicting rowdy rats and the hapless inhabitants of Hamlin. Printed on Hosho paper and bound in marbled paper boards with leather spine label. Spine a.... More about The Pied Piper of Hamlin
(N.p.): Chamberlain Press, 1976. 24mo. (4)ff. One of 125 copies. Two line-cut illustrations. Cox's poem was originally published in St. Nicholas magazine in 1875. Fine in wrappers. More about The Alphabet in Council
(N.p.): Chamberlain Press, 1978. 12mo. (12)ff. One of 120 copies, signed by the printer-illustrator. Printed in Goudy Bold, with titles and ornaments in pink, and ten wonderful wood engravings. Faint rubbing to extremities, else fine in paste-paper boards by Gray Parrot. Prospectus laid in. More about The Bremen Town Musicians
(Portland): Chamberlain Press, 1978. Octavo. (6)ff., frenchfold. One of 100 copies, signed by the artist. Designed, printed, and illustrated by Chamberlain. Lear's poem tells of an old man "who invented a purely original dress"; it was edible. Printed in two colors on beige Japanese paper and illustrated with two very... More about The New Vestments
(Portland, OR): Chamberlain Press, 1982. Small octavo. (20)ff. One of 125 copies signed by the artist, Sarah Chamberlain, with ALS from her laid in. Eleven whimsical poems by Belloc illustrated with seventeen wood engravings cut and hand-colored by Chamberlain. Bound by Barbara Blumenthal in patterned boards, with a morocco spine... More about Beasts from Belloc. A Selection of Poems from Hilaire Belloc's The Book of Beasts for Bad...
(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. Fine in decorated... More about A Selection of Aesop's Fables
(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. Fine in decorated... More about A Selection of Aesop's Fables
(Easthampton, MA): Cheloniidae Press, 1985. Quarto. (42)pp. From an edition of 75, this is one of fifteen proof copies, with two sets of proofs of the illustrations, an extra suite, and an original pencil drawing, each signed by the artist, Alan James Robinson, and with a special binding. The colophon... More about Leda. In Praise of the Blessings of Darkness
(Easthampton, MA: Cheloniidae Press, 1985). Small oblong quarto. (19)ff., frenchfold. From an edition of 175 copies signed by Alan James Robinson, this is one of fifty deluxe copies, bound by Claudia Cohen in quarter red morocco and boards, with an extra suite of the prints signed by the artist. This... More about The Raven
