Vancouver, Canada · est. 2000

Heavenly Monkey

A private letterpress and binding studio that publishes books inked, printed and bound entirely by hand on antique handpresses.


About the press

Heavenly Monkey is a private letterpress and binding studio publishing limited editions, with a maximum of about 50 copies per edition. Books are printed on dampened hand- or mouldmade papers using antique presses such as a Pratt Albion and an Ostrander-Seymour handpress, and bound by hand with embellished board and endsheet papers. The studio focuses on the history of printing and related crafts.

Notable titles

  • The WunderCabinet: The Curious Worlds of Barbara Hodgson & Claudia Cohen
  • A New Account of the Life & Work of the Man who Cut Types for Aldus Manutius, Francesco Griffo da Bologna
  • The Shadow Over Innsmouth (H.P. Lovecraft)