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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Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1959. 12mo. (12)ff. One of 200 copies. With original woodcuts to title and colophon by Leonard Baskin. Printed in green, black, and orange. Some rubbing, else a near fine copy in stiff floral-patterned wrappers with printed label. More
(Rockport, ME): Gehenna Press, 1998. Folio. (65)pp. From an edition of fifty, this is one of ten deluxe copies, accompanied by a page of Hecht's manuscript, three drawings by Baskin, one of the original woodcut blocks, and a suite of woodcuts printed in black with several colored by Baskin. Signed..... More
(Northampton: Gehenna Press, 1969). Octavo. 25ff., housed in paper wrapper. One of 250 copies. With 21 woodblock illustrations of creatures fantastic and familiar printed in a variety of colors on nine different oriental papers, each print signed by the artist, Wang Hui-Ming. Box shows some rubbing, but sheets all pristine..... More
(Northampton, MA): Gehenna Press, 1958. Small quarto. (12)pp. One of 100 copies. Signed by George Lockwood, who contributed the wood-engraved frontispiece. Leyda's poem about Emily Dickinson's Amherst, Massachusetts home is interspersed with the words from the deed, which are printed in red. An uncommon Gehenna title, this copy shows some..... More
Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1972. Quarto. (14)ff. One of thirty-five copies. Signed by Baskin at the colophon. Eight etchings, each signed and numbered in pencil, all depicting figures formed after the fashion of Roman boundary markers. These stele, with the exception of the bird marker, preserve perhaps the most human..... More
(Leeds, MA): Gehenna Press, 1989. Quarto. (13)pp, (25)ff. One of thirty-eight copies. A collection of etchings of cats by the Italian artist Anna Maria Bartolini, some of which are printed on pink mulberry paper and tipped in. All are signed by the artist in graphite. Some of the cats are..... More
Northampton, MA: Gehenna Press, 1964. Quarto. 84pp + 21 inserted plates. One of 300 copies. Signed by Cornell twice at the colophon and under each illustration, and by Leonard Baskin, who designed the book. The plates, printed on blue paper, bear twenty-one different portraits of the major players in Babeuf's..... More
Victoria, Australia: 2010. Square 32mo. (14)pp., accordion-fold, decorated on both sides of the page. An original artist's book by Jennifer Gibney, with hand-drawn text and pen illustrations in black, sepia, and sanguine ink, housed within a hand-painted and decorated wooden box. The story concerns a jester-like character who is overwhelmed..... More
(Verona: Plain Wrapper Press, 1980). Quarto. 7, (1)pp. One of 155 copies signed by the author. Inscribed by the author to the distinguished New York antiquarian bookseller John Fleming in 1981: "For John Fleming, who is no more in need of instruction in the art of wooing than was J...... More
(Weimar): Cranach Press, 1931. Tall octavo. 31, (1)pp. From an edition of 268 copies, this is one of 200 copies on handmade Maillol-Kessler paper. Printed in red and black and illustrated throughout with wood engravings and decorated initials by Eric Gill. This ancient dialogue between the Bride and Groom is..... More
(Pigotts: Rene Hague & Eric Gill, 1930). 24mo. (8)pp. One of 225 copies. The first piece of letterpress printing produced by René Hague and Eric Gill, copies of this booklet were distributed privately. The tale of Amnon's rape of his half-sister Tamar actually appeared in the Second Book of Samuel..... More
London: Bain & Williams Limited, 1991. Quarto. (xiv), 106pp. One of 40 deluxe copies hand-bound by Clare Skelton, which includes a proof taken from one of Eric Gill's original woodblocks for The Four Gospels. Illustrated throughout with photographs of the Press, examples of types designed by Gill, and reproductions of..... More
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. Octavo. (vii), 18, (i)pp. Illustrated with two full-page woodcuts by Eric Gill, plus a title-page device. The text comprises a lecture Gill delivered at Manchester University in 1928, revised for this edition. This is Gill's own copy, with his bookplate on the front..... More
Capel-y-ffin, Abergavenny: Francis Walterson, 1927. Octavo. (vii), 46pp. One of 200 copies printed at the Shakespeare Head Press for Francis Walterson, signed by both Eric Gill and David Jones. This was the only book to be issued signed by the two. Illustrated with a frontispiece engraved by David Jones titled..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1931. Octavo. viii, 200pp. Illustrated with ten wood engravings by Eric Gill: three full-page, five half-page, and an ornamental device. Spine faded, else very good in green cloth. Laid in is a silhouette woodcut, signed by Gill, titled "Dumb-Driven Cattle." First produced in 1915, the woodcut was..... More
London: Sheed & Ward, (1931). Octavo. iv, 121 pp. First edition. One of 500 copies signed by Eric Gill and Rene Hague and printed by Hague & Gill. This is a presentation copy, inscribed on the colophon. Illustrated with twenty-five figures, including ten type specimens and four illustrations from wood..... More
London: Faber & Faber, 1933. 16mo. 32pp. Gill's opening engraving, "The Leisure State," hints toward his larger expostulary theme of labor and specifically the displacement of human work as a result of machinery. Gill expands his thesis to encompass the impact of unemployment on society at large, including its ramifications..... More
NY: Gilliss Press, 1902. 16mo. x, 43pp. One of 200 copies. Four-line and six-line initials in gilt with blue backgrounds, and several reproductions of printers' marks. Bound in pale gilt-stamped wrappers. Few instances of separation between pages, covers fairly soiled, else very good. More
Stamford, CT: Glad Hand Press, 1992. Oblong 16mo. (12)pp. One of forty-five copies. Illustrations printed from the original wood-engraved blocks in the collection at the Press. A humorous collection of odd signs in public establishments, which Jones calls "excessibly instructional clarifiers." Fine in white wrappers. More
Wormley: Glade Press, 1971. Octavo. 25pp. One of ten special copies bound in buckram by the translator, A. S. Osley, for his friends. This copy also inscribed by him to Alfred Fairbank, the British calligrapher and himself an author on handwriting. Trace rubbing to corners, else fine. Errata slip and..... More
Boston, David R. Godine, 1971. Quarto. (54)pp. First edition. From an edition of 1000 copies, this is one of 100 specially bound and signed by the artist. Printed in blue, red, and black, and bound in blue, morocco-backed marbled boards with matching slipcase. Light scuffs to slipcase, else a fine..... More
London: Gogmagog Press, (1965-66). Four small octavo volumes, each (26)pp. One of 100 copies printed on Hosho paper, signed by the artist/printer Morris Cox. Each volume contains a colorful panorama of nature printed from heavily textured blocks, which give the offset prints an embossed effect. The changing seasons appear in..... More
Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 1991. Two octavo volumes. 184pp; (26)ff. From an edition of 1650 copies, this is one of three special copies printed for the authors, signed by Morris Cox and with a second volume of twenty-six specimen leaves. Inscribed by Colin Franklin. Contains a selection of the writings..... More
London: Gogmagog Press, 1967. Small octavo. (28)pp., frenchfold. From an edition of 100 copies, this is one of 40 bound in Hana-asa paper, reserved for members of The Society of Private Printers. Signed by Cox and printed on Japanese handmade paper. Fourteen spare three-line poems, illustrated with three offset prints..... More
(London): Gogmagog Press, 1962. Octavo. (24)pp., frenchfold. From an edition of fifty copies printed and signed by Morris Cox, this is one of eleven out-of-series copies. Contains fifteen black & white satirical prints illustrating awkward moments, with captions in red. Spine cocked, else near fine in patterned linen boards with..... More
