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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(Weimar): Cranach Press, 1931. Tall octavo. 32, (2)pp. From the French edition of 164 copies, this is one of 50 on Japon. Printed in blue and black, and illustrated throughout with eleven wood engravings and decorative initials by Eric Gill. This ancient dialogue between the Bride and Groom is one..... More
Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1930-1933. Small quarto. Four volumes. 273; 285; 223; 267pp. One of 200 numbered copies printed on handmade Maillol-Kessler paper. The title was designed by Eric Gill, and the initials were done by Aristide Maillol. Initials and title lines printed in red. Volumes 1 through 3 were printed at..... More
London: Cresset Press, 1930. Small quarto. xxiii, (i), 133, (2)pp. One of 350 copies. Fully illustrated title page and twelve additional color stenciled illustrations, one for each month, by John Nash. A faithful reproduction of Spenser's cycle of eclogues, heralding both the agrarian bliss of the turning of the year..... More
(Thetford, VT): Cricket Press, 1965. Quarto. (12)ff. One of twenty-two copies. Subtitled "The First Miracle, John 2," the book tells the story of the Wedding at Cana. The text is printed in red, and faces the tipped-in illustrations. Heavily influenced by Leonard Baskin's early work, there are nine exquisitely fine..... More
Boston: Impressions Workshop Inc./Cricket Press, 1965. Square quarto. (16)ff. One of 150 copies, signed on the colophon page by the poet, Bernard Bockes, and the illustrator, George Lockwood. Illustrated with fifteen fanciful woodcuts by Lockwood depicting insects, bats, dragons, and mythical beasts. Some are monochromatic prints, but others incorporate many..... More
(Thetford: Cricket Press, 1967). Quarto. (6)ff. One of forty-two copies, conceived, illustrated, and executed by Gillian Tyler. A short narrative poem printed on pale green paper, and illustrated with a single wood engraving in the style of Leonard Baskin, who was Tyler's teacher at Smith College. Internally fine, bound in..... More
Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press, 1909. First edition. One of 250 copies. With a long introduction by W. B. Yeats. Synge died shortly before the publication of the book, and Yeats attests to a fruitful relationship between the two men. Bound in blue paper backed with buckram. Some toning to spine..... More
Pinner, Middlesex: Cuckoo Hill Press, 1961. 16mo. (15)pp. One of 111 copies. An accounting of the construction of the Office Press at Cuckoo Hill, with two diagrams as illustrations. Fine in burgundy wrappers. More
Cummington, MA: Cummington Press, 1941. Octavo. (52)pp. One of 300 copies. A fascinating account of mid-nineteenth-century whaling endeavors. Minor soiling to spine, else fine in beige linen. The first book of the Press. More
Hamburg: Gesellschaft der Bibliophilen, 1927. Octavo. (5)ff. A keepsake for the bibliophilic society of Hamburg, designed and edited by Czeschka to display within floral borders Hamlet's famed monologue, which is set in his Antiqua typeface, and printed by Genzsch & Heyse, the firm that released the type specimen book for..... More
Leipzig: Insel Verlag, 1907-1908. Five small octavo volumes. xvi, 498; (v), 573; (v), 582; xvi, 453; (iii), 383pp. One of 100 copies. Three volumes of the set are devoted to Don Quixote; the other two contain Cervantes' novellas. Each receives a matching—save for the text—double-page title spread of a black..... More
Sherman Oaks, CA: Joseph J. D'Ambrosio, 1982. Octavo. (21)ff. One of fifty copies. Signed by D'Ambrosio at the title page, as well as below each of the four original serigraphs that comprise the book's central section, "Ladies of the Garden." Illustrated throughout with images of flora as backdrops to the..... More
Cambridge, UK: Rampant Lions Press, 1988. Octavo. 94pp. One of thirty copies on handmade paper. Inscribed by the author. A historical consideration of the Daniel Press and some of the more obscure poets published by the Press. Fine in quarter morocco with matching slipcase. More
Maple Shade, NJ: Pickering Press, 1985. Octavo. (28)pp., frenchfold. One of 100 copies printed in black and brown. "A warm, witty, wry collection of observations by famous (& infamous) writers who 'draw the line in such a way as to define themselves.'" (Prospectus). This charming little book is printed in..... More
Maple Shade, NJ: Pickering Press, 1984. Octavo. (18)pp. One of 100 copies. Highly illustrated with wood engravings printed in blue and black, including a frontispiece of Pickering and various printer's devices. Afterword by the printer, John Anderson. Example of Pickering's work tipped in. Bound in blue wrappers with decorative paper..... More
Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Library, 1980. Quarto. 19pp. One of 90 copies. This book, printed in two colors, was produced in honor of Anderson's 65th birthday, is illustrated with wood engravings by John DePol, and includes contributions from seven people, including DePol, Claire Van Vliet and Harry Volk, Jr. Trace..... More
Council Bluffs, Iowa: Yellow Barn Press, 1986. Octavo. xvi, 39pp., + 4ff. of samples. One of 150 copies. Inscribed at the colophon by DePol and the printer, Neil Shaver, to Alan Dietch. A colorful selection of DePol's woodcut patterns presented as zinc engravings and, at the appendix, as tip-ins. As..... 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
NY: Vincent FitzGerald & Co., 1989. Folio. (32)pp. One of fifty copies, signed by the artist, Susan Weil. Throughout the text are scattered collages, cut papers, and etchings that work together to create an interactive, multimedia experience for the reader, who thus physically engages with the work in a manner..... More
Colombes, France: Collectif Génération, 1990. Square octavo. (15)ff. One of 60 copies, signed by the author, Marcelin Pleynet, and the illustrator, Bertrand Dorny. With imaginative engraved and blind-stamped illustrations throughout, to accompany Pleynet's modernist text. Many of the pages fold out to give the reader the feeling of discovery and..... More
(London): Doves Press, (1908). Two large octavo volumes. 192; 200pp. One of 250 copies. Printed in red and black by T. J. Cobden-Sanderson and Emery Walker. This collection of Browning's poems explores the many aspects of love between men and women. The colophon is beautifully inscribed in red: "Flourished by..... More
Hammersmith: Doves Press; Hammersmith Publishing Society, 1900; 1902. Two octavo volumes. (iv) 10pp.; (40)pp. The Ideal Book is one of 300 copies and is George Parker Winship's copy, with his bookplate to the front paste-down. Only the second title to have been issued by the Doves Press, the essay by..... 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
(N.p. William Addison Dwiggins, n.d.). A single bifold sheet, with a pochoir-printed border in gray and Christmas greeting in red. Held in a paper envelope with matching border, and with the inscription to the addressee in pencil "from WAD." John W. Borden was a San Francisco-based book collector and amateur..... More
(NY: New Directions, 1969). Oblong quarto. 33pp. One of 100 copies printed at the Thistle Press and signed by the illustrator, Fritz Eichenberg. Illustrated with five full-page wood engravings in black & white. With an extra suite of the plates, each one signed by the artist. Suite is housed in..... More
