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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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
(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: Eragny Press, 1903. Small octavo. 30pp. One of 226 copies. Frontispiece designed by Diana White and wood engraved by Esther Pissarro. Opening borders in green and initial letters in red designed by Lucien Pissarro and engraved by Esther. Offsetting to endpapers, else a bright, fresh copy, half-bound in patterned..... More
(Leipzig: Ernst Ludwig Presse, 1925-1931). Seven volumes, a complete set as published. One of 250 copies. Only 200 copies of the seventh volume were printed. The dedication notes that this edition was produced as an homage to T.J. Cobden-Sanderson and the German editions of Goëthe printed at the Doves Press..... More
(London): Essex House Press, 1902. Small quarto. 87pp. One of 250 copies on paper. Each of the 150 Psalms opens with a woodcut initial, often related to the theme of the particular passage. A court jester stands around a "T" at Psalm 53, which proclaims that "the foolish body hath..... 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
(Campden: Essex House Press, 1904). Octavo. 22pp. One of 150 copies, printed on vellum. The twelfth of the "Great Poems" series published by the Press. Illustrated with a hand-colored frontispiece and colophon device by C. R. Ashbee, and illuminated initials throughout in blue, red, green, and gilt by Miss Kingsford..... 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
Grasmere: The Wordsworth Trust, 2007. Small quarto. 376pp. One of 200 copies. Frontispiece and thirteen additional watercolors by Esslemont. Wordsworth's spiritual autobiography, presented in epic style, receives reverent treatment. Though it is, as Wordsworth's final line states, "of substance and of fabric more divine" than that which shapes and binds..... 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
Stamford, CT: The Overbrook Press, 1940. 12mo. (22)pp. One of 250 copies. Ten amusing poems, written by Margaret B. Evans, relating to printing are illustrated with pictures composed entirely of type ornaments. Trace foxing, else fine in yellow cloth with dust wrapper with somewhat toned spine. This copy signed by..... More
(Santa Cruz, CA): Lime Kiln Press, 1981. Folio. 37pp. One of 115 copies printed, illustrated, and signed by William Everson. This book was Everson's final offering as Master Printer of the Lime Kiln Press. Illustrated with two woodcuts, and printed in black with red and blue initials on paper specially..... 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
(Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1896). Folio. (556)pp. One of 425 copies. Contains 87 wood-engraved illustrations designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones. William Morris, in addition to the "Chaucer" type designed expressly for this book, provided 26 nineteen-line initials, and numerous foliate and floral borders and initials. Burne-Jones called the book "a pocket..... 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
Austin: Taylor, W. Thomas, 1983. Folio. 67pp. Limited to 325 copies printed at the Wind River Press. The presses represented range from Abattoir to Zephyrus Image. This handsome book is illustrated with photographs and eight tipped-in specimens, including Allen, Arion, Bird & Bull, Cummington, Perishable and Laguna Verde Imprenta, which..... 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
Boston: The Gripping Beasts, 2007. Octavo. (x), 77pp. One of 100 copies printed at the Firefly Press. A collection of Amory's original poems, followed by his translations of Aeschylus, Boris Pasternak, Euripides, and Christoforo Landino. Minor soiling to upper cover, else fine in blue wrappers. More
(N.p.): Kallistos Press, 1985. Octavo. (viii), 13pp. One of 150 copies printed at the Firefly Press. Signed by the printer, John Kristensen. Engraved frontispiece by "Phiz," from the first edition of The Pickwick Papers, depicting a sexton caught off guard by an imposing goblin. Fine in green printed wrappers, which..... More
NY: Vincent FitzGerald & Co., 1987. Quarto. (17)ff. One of 75 copies, signed by the translator, Michael Feingold, and the artist, Neil Welliver, whose five color etchings and double-page fold-out lithograph were printed by Shigemitsu Tsukaguchi. The translator served as the lead drama critic for the Village Voice until it..... More
NY: Vincent FitzGerald & Co., 1989. Folio. (32)pp. One of fifty copies, signed by the artist, Susan Weil. Throughout the text are scattered collages, papers, and etchings that work together to create an interactive, multimedia experience for the reader. In this way, the reader physically engages with the work in..... More
