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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Oxford: Plough Press, 1986. Folio. (6)pp., followed by ten annotated folders containing type and paper specimens. One of 110 copies. This collection of leaves was compiled to demonstrate some of the most important characteristics of nearly two hundred years of printing in England and Scotland. Leaves include The Optick Glasse... More
Los Angeles: Plantin Press for Dawson's Book Shop, 1956. Folio. 31pp. One of 290 copies printed at the Plantin Press for Dawson's Book Shop. Though this title usually only includes one original leaf, this particular copy contains two, one from the Book of Proverbs and another from the Book of... More
Bainbridge, PA: Katydid Press, 1956-1960. A selection of eleven titles from the Katydid Press. Titles include: George Washington, by Thomas Jefferson. 1956. 16mo. (14)pp. From an edition of sixty copies, this is one of forty-eight on Basingwerk parchment. Frontispiece woodcut of Washington. Bound in printed paper over boards. Tanned, with light... More
(Rochester, NY): Leopard Studio Editions, 2014. (24)pp., accordion-fold, with two four-page inserts sewn in. One of five copies, signed and numbered by the artist. A miniature artist's book by Sue Huggins Leopard based on the poem by Emily Dickinson, which reads: "Love is anterior to life, / Posterior to death... More
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan Art Laboratory, 1945-1966. A group of nine publications produced by the Wesleyan Art Laboratory. The Art Lab was Wesleyan's first studio art space, begun by Russell T. "Butch" Limbach, who arrived at the university in 1941 as an artist-in-residence. Limbach, whose work had been exhibited throughout the... More
NY: Limited Editions Club, 1984. Square octavo. xxxii, 306pp. One of 1500 copies. Signed by the artist. Illustrated with 22 geometric black-and-white drawings by Lewitt, whose art, according to critic Robert Rosenblum, offers "a world of endlessly expanding mazes." Spine somewhat toned, else near fine in full black cowhide and matching black slipcase. More
(NY): Limited Editions Club, 1990. Small quarto. 183pp. One of 375 copies. Signed by the illustrator at colophon. Eight lithographs by Hejduk, printed at Pondside Press by Melissa and Ted Braggins. With an afterword by David Shapiro. Mann's text is printed in black while Shapiro's appears in brown. Bound by... More
(NY): Limited Editions Club, (1988). Large folio. (70)pp. One of 550 copies with an authorized facsimile of the artist's signature. Illustrated with seventeen lithographs by de Kooning. After Frank O'Hara's untimely death in 1966, a volume of his poetry was published with illustrations from over thirty artists. O'Hara's poem, "Ode... More
(New York): Limited Editions Club, (1987). Large square folio. (120)pp. One of 750 copies, signed by the poet and the artist.. Illustrated with twenty-six full-page lithographs by Robert Motherwell, plus one original lithograph set into the upper cover. Three of the lithographs are printed on colored paper: one on blue... More
NY: Limited Editions Club, 1986. Quarto. xii, 87pp., plus eight plates. One of 1000 copies signed by Mapplethorpe and by the translator, Paul Schmidt. Illustrated from eight photographs by Mapplethorpe, his images complementing Rimbaud's text of self-examination. The original French and Schmidt's English translation are printed on facing pages. Fine... More
(N.p.): Limited Editions Club, (1990). Folio. (18)ff. One of 550 copies. Signed by the artist. Illustrated with six photographs by Aaron Siskind, recreated as gravure prints by Paul Taylor of Hinsdale, NH and impressed by Clary Nelson on mould-made paper. Designed by Kevin Begos Jr. and Dan Carr. The text... More
Brisbane: Locks' Press, 1979. Folio. (10)ff. One of 60 copies, signed by illustrator and Locks' Press co-founder Margaret Lock. Eight black & white engravings accompany Lear's nonsense poem about a man who has his toes stolen (possibly by mermaids) while swimming across the Bristol Channel. This is the first book... 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
(Cambridge, MA): Houghton Library, 1994. Square octavo. (26)pp. One of 500 copies. Warmly inscribed by Lorenz to Anne & David Bromer. A catalogue for an exhibition of artist's books by Angela Lorenz held at Harvard University's Houghton Library in September 1994, featuring full-page photographs of the books and detailed descriptions... More
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1898. Small quarto. (55)pp. Eight woodcut illustrations and each page with black floral borders. A fine rendering of John Keats's poem adapted from Boccacio's Decameron. In it, a young woman engaged to marry a nobleman falls in love with a commoner. When her brothers discover... More
NY: Glenn Horowitz, 1986. Two copies. 16mo. 27pp. Each one of 150 copies. Both signed by all authors at colophon, and inscribed by Horowitz at front free endpaper. Printed at the Kelly Winterton Press. A collection of transcripts of speeches given in memory of Bernard Malamud, the novelist and short... More
(Mount Holly, NJ): Married Mettle Press, 1987. Octavo. (vi), 100, (2) pp. From an edition of 185 copies, this is one of 160 bound copies, signed by Benjamin Alterman, the typographer, and Deborah Alterman, the artist and engraver. The illustrations and ornaments are printed in brown, directly from the engraved... More
Pownal, VT: Mason Hill Press, 1978. Small quarto. (162)pp. One of 175 copies. Text printed in black and rust. Richly illustrated throughout with calligraphic initials printed from wood engravings by Mark Livingston, printed in red, blue and green, and with two engraved endpieces. Each Psalm opens with Livingston's vibrantly colored... More
Worcester: Stanbrook Abbey Press, 1965. Small quarto. 81pp. One of 500 copies beautifully printed in red, black, and green on handmade paper. Title-page decorations by Margaret Adams. Lithographed portrait of the author tipped in. With an English translation on each page facing the original French text by Raissa Maritain, who... More
St. Paul: Midnight Paper Sales Press, 1987. Small quarto. (ii), 19, (1)pp. One of 174 copies. Signed by Gaylord Schanilec on the colophon with his chopmark. As a witness to the region from which it originates, this piece documents the lifespan of the High Bridge, which spanned the Mississippi River... More
(London: Java Head Bookshop, 1948). 79pp. One of 500 copies. Illustrated with plates reproducing pages from important miniature books in black & white, including the Pickering Diamond Classics Odyssey. A concise history of miniature books from the 16th to 19th centuries, and a tribute to the joys of collecting miniature... More
(Minneapolis): Minnesota Center for Book Arts, 2005. Tall quarto. (48)pp. From an edition of 226, this is one of 26 lettered copies, specially bound and with tipped-in editioned prints by five Minnesota artists. An anthology of original poetry from twelve Minnesota writers, including Robert Bly, Adrian Louis, Susan Steger Welsh... More
(Verona: Riva, Franco, 1976). Folio. 37pp., + (6)ff. plates. One of 75 copies, signed by the poet. Six poems by the Italian poet and Nobel Laureate Eugenio Montale, accompanied by six full-page etchings in sanguine of drawings by the poet. Several of the illustrations depict seaside scenes from the poet’s... More
Rome: Delfino, (1985). Folio. 106pp. According to the colophon, this is one of 1,200 copies. Illustrated with ten color lithographs after drawings by Henry Moore. The editor, Dr. Stanley Wells, notes in the Foreword that this work reveals an "unsuspected spiritual kinship between one of the greatest visual artists of... More
Portland, Maine: Mosher, Thomas B., 1904. Octavo. 41pp. From an edition of fifty numbered copies, this is one of forty offered for sale. Printed on Japan vellum in red and black from the plates of The Bibelot, Vol. 10, June 1904. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author, with... More
