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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(Hammersmith): Doves Press, 1914. Octavo. 141pp. One of 150 copies, printed in red and black. Inscribed by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, the Doves Press founder and printer, to his son Richard on 4 October 1913, which precedes the official publication date by several months. The text contains letters from T. J...... More
(Hammersmith): Doves Press, 1912. Octavo. (112)pp. One of 200 copies. Cobden-Sanderson's typography had a profound impact on the aesthetic of the German fine press movement that flourished prior to the outbreak of the first World War. As a result, the Doves Press Goethe titles were highly sought-after and sold well..... More
Hammersmith: Doves Press, 1914. Octavo. (168)pp. One of 200 copies printed on paper. Two initials in typical Doves Press style: a red five-line "C" on the half title, and a black four-line "B" on page 7. Stage directions, names, and scene indicators from The Tragedy of Coriolanus printed in red..... More
Hammersmith: Doves Press, 1909. Octavo. 159, 23pp. One of 250 copies, printed in red and black. The text of the play was taken from the Second Quarto edition, with punctuation updates and spelling corrections by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson. The famous flourished opening initial "W" calligraphed by Edward Johnston in green..... More
Harper Woods: Adagio Press, 1969. Folio. 54pp. With a Preface by Strouse and a Note by the Printer, Leonard F. Bahr. From an edition of 329, this is one of ten copies made up of leftover sheets from the original printing. It contains three leaves: and octavo sheet from Tasso..... More
(Hammersmith: Doves Press), 1909. Octavo. 26pp. One of 300 copies printed in red and black. Bound in vellum-backed blue paper over boards. Corners and upper edge bumped, boards and fore-edge of a few pages soiled, else very good. Bookplate from the training department of the Lakeside Press, Chicago on front..... More
Hammersmith: Doves Press, 1948. Octavo. 26pp. One of 300 copies, printed in red and black. This copy was formerly owned by David McKibbin, a major collector of John Singer Sargent. Bound in vellum-backed blue paper over boards, with the Club of Odd Volumes seal gilt-stamped to upper cover. Edges of..... More
(N.p.): Paul Hayden Duensing, (1969). One of 300 copies. Broadside measuring 31 1/2 x 25 1/2 inches (800x317mm), printed by offset. A selection of typefaces offered by the Typefoundry, including borders, ornaments, Hieroglyphics, and Greek, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Hebrew, and Cherokee alphabets. One faint spot, else fine. More
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
NY: Typophiles, 1960. Two 12mo. volumes. xiii, 271pp. One of 1050 copies. Published as Typophile Chap Books nos. 35 and 36. These volumes contain a collection of essays edited by Paul A. Bennett, contributed by Dorothy Abbe, Mabel Dwiggins, Rudolph Ruzicka, and others, with a selective checklist compiled by Dorothy..... 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): 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
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
(N.p. Ferguson, William, n.d.). Print measuring 10 1/4 by 13 inches. One of 76 copies. A windmill design in green and brown, with the words "arena," "monte," "cielo," and "nieve" on the four blades. SIgned by the artist. Fine. More
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
(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
