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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London: David Nutt, 1889. Two small octavo volumes. xx, 283; (v), 322pp. One of 550 copies. Frontispiece engravings preface both volumes, the first of which discusses the history of Aesop's Fables, and the latter of which contains the text, after William Caxton's edition of 1483. Both bound in plain wrappers..... More
Wellesley, MA: Annis Press, 1980. An archive of materials relating to the production of Four Fables from Aesop, the limited edition from Wellesley College's Annis Press for the year 1980. Included are two pieces of correspondence and many proof sheets in a variety of states with comments in pen, pencil..... More
NY: Limited Editions Club, 1933. Octavo. (xx), 210pp. One of 1,500 copies, designed by Bruce Rogers, who signed the colophon. Throughout are facsimiles of Florentine woodcuts, which give the book an Early Modern flair. Translation by Samuel Croxall, with a bibliographical note by Victor Scholderer. Bound in marbled boards backed..... More
Budapest: Borda Antikvárium, 1997. Slim octavo. (18)ff. One of 70 copies, signed by Regina Szász, who designed, illustrated, and bound the book. A charming, bilingual edition, printed in brown and black on colored papers, with a fold-out illustration for each fable. The Italian text is printed in such a way..... More
Philadelphia and Minneapolis: Dargonet Press (i.e. Dagonet Press), (n.d.). Large octavo. (24)pp. One of sixteen copies. Signed by Anderson after the title page, and by the designer and printer, James Engelbart, at the colophon. Anderson's nine woodcuts of chickens appear opposite nine original fables. Each of these is followed by..... More
Staplehurst, Kent, UK: Florin Press, 1980. Oblong 32mo. 36pp. Of a total edition of 130 copies, this is one of eighty accompanied by a suite of proofs. Nineteen proofs of Bewick's headpieces are here printed from the original wood-blocks by R. Hunter Middleton. An additional four engravings were likewise printed..... More
Boston, MA: Nimrod Press, 1962. Elephant folio. (13)pp., + 6ff. plates. One of 550 copies. A massive, multi-colored, visual tour through some of La Fontaine's tales. Nason's woodcuts, which include a portrait of La Fontaine himself, command impressive dimensions while remaining lighthearted and earnest in weight. Bound in wrappers with..... More
NY: William Heinemann Ltd., 1931. Two large octavo vols. lxxii, 235; xxii, 336pp. One of 525 copies, signed by the illustrator and the translator below the limitation statement. Gooden's twenty-six copper engravings punctuate this pleasing pair of volumes with fantastic weight and imagination. Both volumes bound in full vellum with..... More
(Boston): Boston Public Library/Society of Printers, 2001. Octavo. First edition. One of 500 copies. Thirty-two pages of color and black & white illustrations from photographs. The story of Dorothy Abbe's contributions to printing, book design, typography, photography, writing, and teaching is gathered from her archives at the Boston Public Library..... More
Philadelphia: Taylor & Hessey, 1981. Octavo. 28pp. One of 400 copies. A humorous analysis of the travel agency industry, rendered even more amusing when read by those of us in the twenty-first century. Fine in plain wrappers. More
Oxford: Alembic Press, 1992. Octavo. (38)ff. One of 150 copies. Contains a brief introduction on the development of the firm, and seventeen tipped-in samples of marbled papers produced for specific purposes, for customers ranging from Harrod's to a woman who wanted her lampshades to look like the feathers of her..... More
Venezia: Antonio Zatta, 1757-1758. Four quarto volumes: L’Inferno, Il Purgatorio, Il Paradiso, Prose & Rime Liriche. (16), xlviii, ccccviii; ccccxiii, (3); cccclii, (4), 104; xii, 408, (4), 264, lxxxiv, (2)pp. Illustrated throughout with 114 engraved plates, by F. Giampiccoli, J. Magnini, F. Rizzi, and B. Crivelli, after works by Italian..... More
San Francisco: Allen Press, 1947. Octavo. (98)pp. One of 350 copies. Designed and printed by Lewis and Dorothy Allen. Illustrated with five halftones. An early Allen Press title, this marks their third consecutive commission from the Book Club of California. Minor rubbing to extremities, else near fine copy in cloth-backed..... More
Greenbrae, CA: Allen Press, 1988. Small quarto. 136pp. One of ten copies bound in full vellum by Jenifer Lindsay. Handsomely illustrated with black & white drawings by Michèle Forgeois. Calligraphic variations on the letters "R" and "J" by Mark Livingston are printed in the margins in lush purple, orange, green..... More
San Francisco: Allen Press, 1946. Quarto. 38pp., (16)ff. One of 300 copies, printed by Lewis and Dorothy Allen for the Book Club of California. With title and decorations by Mallette Dean. Contains a 30-page facsimile of the diary. Very fine in green, brown, and white patterned boards. Together with: Teggart..... More
(Los Angeles): Printmaker Press, (1988). Octavo. (57)pp. One of 135 copies. Printed and illustrated by Marion A. Baker with twenty-eight linocuts, printed in red. Each letter of this alphabet is accompanied by an example sentence and an impressive list of alliterative words, divided into three sections: animals, names, and additional..... More
Fairfax, CA: Jungle Garden Press, 1991. Oblong 24mo. (14)pp., accordion-fold. One of 55 copies designed, printed, and bound by Marie Dern at the Jungle Garden Press. A tongue-in-cheek printer's alphabet, with large initials in, appropriately, Caslon type. The initials are accompanied by humorous representations of the letters printed using numerous..... More
Vancouver, BC: Heavenly Monkey, 2009. Octavo. (11)pp. One of twenty-five copies. Frontispiece of a couple on a bench hand-pulled, signed, dated, and numbered by Mariko Ando. Created as a celebration of twenty years of marriage, the book reproduces the fifth "Knee Play" from Philip Glass and Robert Wilson's celebrated opera..... More
Cambridge, MA: Dept. of Printing and Graphic Arts, Harvard College, 1968. Square 16mo. (8)ff. One of 500 copies, signed by the artist. Marie Angel, who also contributed illustrations to A. Colish's 1974 edition of The Velveteen Rabbit, here adorns Dickinson's two poems with a diverse array of butterflies set softly..... More
(N.p., n.d.). An original linoleum block print measuring 8 by 10 inches, tastefully matted and framed. Valenti Angelo here employs bold use of line and cross-hatching to show the texture of these trees, which are in the foreground, set against a predominantly black backdrop. Inscribed by the artist to Henry..... More
NY: 6x9 Press, 1957. Oblong octavo. 12ff., frenchfold. Oblong octavo. 12ff., frenchfold. Limitation not noted, but one of 80 copies. Illustrated with nine hand-colored linocuts by Seymour Chwast. With an Introduction by Chwast's cousin Dachine Rainer, the anarchist writer whose novella, A Room at the Inn, would be published the..... More
(Melbourne): Masterthief, 2009. Folio. (44)pp. One of ten copies, signed by the artists, Peter Lyssiotis and Theo Strasser. An imposing work, monumental in many senses, Remembrance matches Robert Colvin’s poetry with hand-painted pages and original screenprints to underscore the consequences of actions, especially those by the military. It demands a...... More
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Aurora, NY: Wells College Press, 2003 (but 2014). Folio. (9)ff. One of thirty copies, signed by the author, Ildefonso Manuel Gil, before his passing in 2003. Each lithograph titled, numbered, signed, and dated by the artist as well. A suite of four lithographs, plus an original drawing, by Roberts embrace..... More
2017. Quarto. (26)pp. One of five copies. A book woven into being through the trials of military service, Lesinski's Beyond the Reach of Reason presents itself as a living thing. Lesinski's poetry draws upon his experience as a combat veteran, a disabled veteran, and a disabled person living in American..... More
Seattle: Aubergine Atelier, 2019. Oblong 24mo. 36(ff)., + 14 Japanese kozo-paper leaves painted on both sides in gouache, tempera, watercolor, and polyacrylic varnish. From an edition of thirty copies, this is one of ten bound in half leather. Each copy in the edition contains unique paintings by Jodee Fenton. These..... More
