Big Jump Press
Letterpress-printed, hand-bound limited-edition artists' books, prints and broadsides exploring themes of transformation, translation and shifting perspective.
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Artists' books
Makers treating the book as a sculptural, conceptual art form. 46 presses.
The Blue Print Press
Hand-made, single-poem letterpress books in very small editions, printed from metal type on an 1895 Albion handpress and illustrated by the printer using linocut, engraving, etching, aquatint and watercolour.
Bracken Press
A private press and printmaking workshop producing limited-edition artist's books and prints, and teaching intaglio, block printing, wood engraving and letterpress.
Center for Book Arts
The first U.S. nonprofit dedicated to the book as an art object, supporting the field through education, studio access, exhibitions and preservation, and publishing letterpress chapbooks, broadsides and limited-edition artists' books.
Chevington Press
Hand-printed limited-edition artist's books in which letterpress type and original etchings are each printed separately by hand.
The Counter Press
Contemporary letterpress practice using only traditional wood and metal type, hand-composed and printed to make fine-press books, broadsides and typographic limited editions.
Cuneiform Press
Letterpress and offset editions of poetry, artists' books, and titles on typography and the book arts.
Deep Wood Press
Chad Pastotnik's letterpress and intaglio private-press and artists' books using handset type, wood engravings, and fine binding.
Design for Today
Finely produced illustrated books and artist editions rooted in mid-century design and auto-lithography, printed with craft methods and plant-based inks.
Effra Press & Typefoundry
Run by Nick Gill, combining a fine press releasing limited-edition artists' books and prints with a typefoundry casting new metal type and supplying hot-metal typesetting for letterpress printers.
Enitharmon Editions
A long-established independent publisher of fine artists' books and limited-edition prints, produced in collaboration with leading artists and writers.
The Folio Society
Independent publisher of finely produced illustrated editions of classic and contemporary literature, with specially designed bindings, commissioned illustration, and hand-numbered limited editions.
The Fork and Broom Press
Letterpress artists' books, broadsides and prints made with traditional techniques including linocut and woodcut, in English and German.
The Heavy Duty Press
Letterpress-printed limited-edition artists' books, broadsides, and collaborative projects set in metal type, emphasizing handcraft and slow media.
Hirundo Press
Hand-set letterpress artists' books that combine rigorous research with traditional printing and typography.
The Inky Parrot Press
Fine limited-edition illustrated books for adults, working with noted illustrators such as Ronald Searle, Rigby Graham and Miriam Macgregor.
Intima Press
Fine-press letterpress editions, poetic broadsides, and artists' books combining letterpress typography with mixed media; known for recovering the legacy of colonial printer Mary Katharine Goddard.
The Janus Press
Landmark fine-press and artists'-book maker known for letterpress work, innovative non-adhesive bindings, and the use of dyed paper-pulp illustrations.
Lead Graffiti
Letterpress books, broadsides, and typography workshops set from metal and wood type, including experimental, collaborative, and politically engaged book-arts projects.
Leslie Gerry Editions
Large-format limited-edition artist's books reproducing Leslie Gerry's bold, flat-colour digital paintings, issued in deluxe, regular, and miniature editions.
The Melville Press
Fine illustrated letterpress limited editions on themes of voyaging, issued in signed and numbered runs.
Minnesota Center for Book Arts
One of the largest comprehensive book-arts centers in the United States, with letterpress, papermaking and bookbinding studios, galleries and a retail shop of hand-printed work.
Moving Parts Press
Felicia Rice's press publishing innovative letterpress artists' books, broadsides, and prints, with particular emphasis on Chicanx and Latinx voices.
Nawakum Press
Publishing collaborative letterpress fine-press editions and artists' books with high-quality book design and production.
NewLights Press
Experimental letterpress and artists' books using variable editions and unconventional printing techniques; developer of the experimental 'Threshold Alphabet' typeface system.
Ninja Press
Carolee Campbell's handset letterpress fine-press editions of contemporary poetry, printed on a Vandercook Universal I and noted for experimental book structures.
Peter Koch Printers
Letterpress limited editions, broadsides, and artists' books of classical texts and contemporary poetry, often featuring wood engravings.
Pie In The Sky Press
Letterpress artists' books and fine-press editions by Rebecca Chamlee, frequently inspired by botanical and natural-history subjects.
The Press at Colorado College
Academic letterpress and book-arts studio that designs, hand-sets, and prints limited-edition books, broadsides, and posters, dedicated to teaching the histories and arts of the book.
Purgatory Pie Press
Letterpress limited editions and artists' books hand-set from wood and metal type, plus postcards, coasters, and hand-printed ephemera; Dikko Faust hand-sets type while Esther K. Smith edits, designs, and hand-sews the books.
Pyracantha Press
The publishing imprint of the Arizona State University School of Art, producing limited-edition handmade books and letterpress prints. It houses the Antonia and Adam Petko Type and Press Collection, described as the largest collection of type at any institution of higher education in North America, including an 1834 Columbian press.
Red Hydra Press
Letterpress-printed, handmade limited-edition books and broadsides featuring poets writing in English and Spanish, in both traditional and experimental formats.
Red Plate Press
The studio and imprint of artist-printer David Armes, working primarily in letterpress to produce prints, artists' books and installations in the South Pennines.
Russell Maret
Letterpress artist's books and original metal typefaces, including the 'Artless Lemur' craft series of books about printing and book arts.
San Francisco Center for the Book
A nonprofit book-arts center offering letterpress, bookbinding and artists'-book workshops, exhibitions and residencies. Its Small Plates imprint issues 4-inch-square handmade letterpress artists' books in signed and numbered editions of 100 copies.
Scripps College Press
A teaching letterpress at Scripps College where students hand-set metal type and letterpress-print collaborative limited-edition artists' books, typically in editions of about 100 copies, each semester. The press uses the exclusive Scripps College Old Style typeface designed for it by Frederic W. Goudy in 1941.
Shanty Bay Press
A private press devoted to livres d'artistes combining hand-set type, original illustration and hand binding.
Springtide Press
Letterpress artist books, broadsides, and ephemera in which typography plays a central role; proprietor Jessica Spring co-created the Dead Feminists series and invented Daredevil Furniture for setting type in curves and angles.
Stoney Road Press
A Dublin fine-art print and editioning studio working with leading Irish and international artists on etchings, carborundum prints and limited-edition books, equipped with a restored letterpress.
Susan Allix
Hand-made artist's books that combine letterpress text, original etchings and other printmaking, and fine binding, all made by the artist herself.
Turkey Press
Handmade letterpress books and prints blending traditional bookmaking with contemporary materials, focused on poetry and the visual and tactile experience of the page.
Two Ponds Press
Award-winning publisher of fine-press artist books made with traditional printing methods in collaboration with letterpress printers and fine binders.
Two Rivers Press
Individually designed illustrated books combining art and literature, including poetry and works of local interest to Reading.
University of Alabama MFA Book Arts Program
A graduate program in making books by hand, offering a 60-credit MFA covering letterpress printing, typography, hand bookbinding, hand papermaking and book history. It describes itself as the oldest dedicated book-making program of its kind in the country.
University of Iowa Center for the Book
An interdisciplinary arts-and-research program offering an MFA in Book Arts, with letterpress, papermaking, bookbinding and lettering studios supporting the creative production of fine press and artists' books.
Wai-te-ata Press
University letterpress press producing limited-edition fine-press works by contemporary New Zealand writers and artists on historic presses, alongside book-arts teaching and heritage-type projects.