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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(Newtown): Gregynog Press, 1929. Quarto. 189pp. One of 225 copies. Ornamented throughout with initial capitals, calligraphed by Horace Bray, printed in red and blue. Four of the psalms, as well as the title-page, show extra decoration by Bray, with wood-engraved flowering vines printed in red and black. Bound in half-morocco..... More
North Wales: Gregynog Press, 1991. Folio. 72pp. One of 450 copies. Contains a frontispiece portrait of the author and seven more large wood engravings in color by Gaylord Schanilec. Cut with exquisite precision, and printed in deep, strong colors, this suite of realistic illustrations suits the powerful sequence of Civil..... More
NY: Grolier Club, 1995. Small quarto. 79pp. One of 225 copies. Tipped-in frontispiece portrait of Keats by Charles Brown, a tri-fold facsimile letter from Harvard's Keats archives, and a map showing the route of Keats' walk. The walk in question was a 2000-mile tour of the English Lake District and..... More
Wales: Gwasg Gregynog, 2003. Quarto. xv, (3), 99pp. One of 215 copies. Van Niekerk's wood engravings throughout, including frontispiece portrait of Herbert and a rendering of the Vitruvian Man on the whole of page 36. Edited, with introduction and notes, by The Earl of Powis. Bound in quarter-leather by Alan..... More
Newtown, Powys: Gwasg Gregynog, 1983. Octavo. (20)ff. One of 250 copies. Eleven wood engravings by Sarah Van Niekerk, one of which is double-page. Extracts from Kilvert's writings, selected and introduced by Meic Stephens. Quarter-cloth binding with marbled paper covers and paper spine label. Faint edgewear, else fine. More
Powys, Wales: Gwasg Gregynog, 1983. Small quarto. 70, (2)pp. One of 150 regular copies. Inscribed by the author, Arnold Taylor, and signed by the artist, David Woodford, with a letter from each to Hugh Pritchard laid in. Forward by the Prince of Wales. Illustrated with eight etchings showing the four..... More
Lond Crendon, Bucks: Seven Acres Press, 1926. Quarto. 45pp. One of 600 copies. Signed by Haberly, and from the library of Haberly's wife, Virginia, with her bookplate to the front free endpaper. The second book of the Press. Illustrated throughout by Haberly with fantastical illustrations of beasts real, like the..... More
Lexington, KY: Stamperia del Santuccio, 1951. Octavo, 182pp. One of 152 unnumbered copies printed by Carolyn Reading in black and red American Uncial type on Japanese Hosho paper. Translated from the German by Victor Hammer and Thornton Sinclair with an introduction by Hammer. Autograph note from Hammer to Florentine scholar..... More
(Lexington, KY: Anvil Press, 1979). Quarto. (12)pp., (37)ff. One of 50 copies printed in American Uncial on Canson paper. A compilation of 36 plates printed from blocks cut or engraved by Victor Hammer. Several plates are hand-colored and all are tipped-in. Book compiled and designed by Carolyn R. Hammer and..... More
NY: Harrison of Paris, 1932. Octavo. 43pp. One of 595 copies. A collection of literary and philosophical quotations, poems, and short essays, presented using creative typography. This was the eleventh publication of Harrison of Paris, designed by Monroe Wheeler. Some fading to spline and trace edgewear, else near fine. More
Wakefield, W. Yorkshire: Fleece Press, 1992. Quarto. (22) pp. +19 ff. One of 275 copies. Harvey's illustrated essay on Stone includes forty-one wood engravings printed in black or in color, one of which is tipped-in. Also illustrated with a tipped-in portrait of Stone at work in his studio. A fine..... More
London: Rainbow Press, 1975. First edition. One of 150 copies signed by the author. With full page two-color illustrations by Barrie Cooke. Handsomely printed early limited edition prints eight poems thematically related to Heaney's poetic pursuit of the archaeology of Ireland's violent past. These poems were published a month ahead..... More
Dublin: Hieroglyph Editions Ltd, 1991. First edition. From an edition of 100 copies, this is one of 60 that were offered for sale. Illustrated with four lithographs by Felim Egan, who designed the book. Signed by Heaney and Egan. This is the first separate appearance of twelve poems from the..... More
Dublin: Andrew Carpenter, 1979. First edition. From an edition of 125, this is one of 30 copies issued in black morocco and offered for sale. Illustrated with two lithographs by Louis Le Brocquy. Signed by Heaney, Le Brocquy, Liam Miller the designer, and the publisher, Andrew Carpenter. The book was..... More
(Vancouver, BC): Heavenly Monkey, 2013. Small quarto. (18), (8)ff. One of twenty copies comprising the regular edition. This work celebrates the many varieties of metal type "purchased for, adopted by, & abandoned at Heavenly Monkey during the studio's first fifteen years" and is printed on a selection of nine different..... More
(Vancouver): Heavenly Monkey, 2007. Quarto. (5)ff. One of fifty copies signed by the contemporary Canadian artist Charles van Sandwyk. With six tipped-in plates, five of which are from the artist's earliest etchings, and one etching executed for this work. A brief essay about etching by van Sandwyk accompanies the artwork..... More
Boston: Heron Press, 1979. Octavo. (28)pp. One of twenty-five copies. Signed by Glotzer, and with an ALS from him to Abe Lerner. The ALS states that, though the colophon claims twenty-five copies, only four were actually printed. Two-color frontispiece of John Cotton, to whom one fo Glotzer's poems is dedicated..... More
Boston: Heron Press, 1969. Octavo. (47)pp. One of 150 copies. Five illustrations in wood and metal by Chandler, printed on near-translucent tan paper. Introduction by Thomas Heffernan. Bound in cloth-backed marbled boards. Very fine. More
Boston: Heron Press, 1989. Folio. 33pp., unbound, as issued. From an edition of 115 copies, this is one of fifteen printed on handmade paper, with an extra etching laid in, and signed by Chandler and Lewis. Illustrated with eight etchings by Chandler, one of which is a double-page fold-out. The..... More
New Haven, CT: Jonathan Edwards College Press, 1974. Small quarto. (x), 13pp. One of 100 copies. Wood-engraved color frontispiece and textual diagram by Lance Hidy, elucidating Edwards' pronounced awe of spiders. Bound in black cloth over boards with paper spine label. Fine. More
(Boston: Godine Press, c. 1970). Framed etching measuring 11 by 8 inches. One of an unknown number of copies; the edition was probably no greater than 200. An image of an early flying machine crashed and abandoned in a field of clover, printed in green with a caption printed in..... More
Seal Harbor, ME: High Loft Press, 1980. Octavo. 20pp. One of 180 copies. Three etchings in color by McCormick, in addition to initials printed in green, mauve, and red. Translation by August Heckscher included as separate booklet. Bound in russet paper boards with morocco spine label. Some sunning to spine..... More
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2006. Octavo. x, 80pp., + (5)ff. of paper specimens. One of 300 copies. Also illustrated with reproductions of photographs of Seymour and company activities, as well as various examples of correspondence. Printed at the Manoutios Press in Athens. Quarter bound by Vassilis Kypreos in..... More
Los Angeles: Plantin Press, 1983. Quarto. 190pp. One of 850 numbered copies printed by the Plantin Press for Dawson's Book Shop. Signed and dated by the author, Phoebe Jane Easton. Illustrated with six tipped-in specimens of marbled paper, mounted color frontispiece, and color plates. Some foxing to upper cover and..... More
Leicestershire: Plough Press, (1977-80?). Quarto. 27pp., + (27)ff. of marble samples. One of 112 copies. Begins with the onset of paper marbling in England in the seventeenth century, and continues with other sources documenting the practice through the 1950s. Specimens include the work of Douglas Cockerell & Son, nineteenth-century examples..... More
