As we’re chugging away with letterpress printing of Catch-22 we finally added the second tone of colour to some of the illustrations. The results are stunning to behold. The decision to print the illustrations letterpress proved to be a great one, and while it is tedious to print 22 illustrations in two tones (along with...Continue Reading

2001: A Space Odyssey holds a special place in my heart. I first read it when I was about eight years old, within the confines of my hometown’s public library. I distinctly remember that it was quite unlike any other book I’ve previously read. It introduced me to “grown-up” literature, ignited my curiosity about space...Continue Reading

Well if it isn’t some great news before the holidays kick in!Half of our team is already on well-deserved holiday vacation, but the rest of us are still hard at work. After months of waiting for our custom order of Hahnemühle 100% cotton paper for Catch-22, it has finally arrived. A few weeks before Fedrigoni...Continue Reading

Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of a Dozen Favourites is a title that brought us many firsts. Chiefly among them was our venture into letterpress with the purchase of Heidi. We also incorporated marbling into our own production. It was a great challenge, but the end result was oh, so worth it!The video below shows...Continue Reading

As we shipped all the preordered Sherlock – Essential Edition books, the reviews started to pour in. Not only on our website, but there has also been some buzz on YouTube as well and you can check them out below.The first one takes a deep dive into the book, so needless to say, we thoroughly...Continue Reading

Shamelessly stealing the movie title and for a very simple reason—it is sure getting crowded here at Amaranthine Books. The last couple of months have been pretty busy, but we even managed to get a little bit of vacation time so we could properly focus in this upcoming period. I know we’ve been too silent...Continue Reading

After many months of hard work, letterpress printing of our Sherlock and the Adventure of a Dozen Favourites is finally done and landed safely in AKD, where the illustrations will be printed, along with making everything ready for the bindery. It is a very exciting day for us and we were all nervously waiting for the confirmation...Continue Reading

The featured image seems to claim quite the contrary, but since most of our team is going through letterpress education with a master printer, there’s always a crowd next to our Heidi. As most of you already know, we have acquired Heidelberg Cylinder SBG last year in order to print our own books via letterpress....Continue Reading

The Doctor Edition, our numbered edition of Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus, has started shipping a while ago and the reviews have already started to pour in on our website. But one of our customers made a detailed video review on his YouTube channel and all we can say is WOW! We are extremely honoured...Continue Reading

The numbered edition of our recently published The Picture of Dorian Gray, titled as The Peacock Edition, has the cover illustration hand painted by the extremely talented artist Nina Bekeniova. This video shows her process, which required careful planing considering she had to make over 260 illustrations.Her efforts make this edition truly stunning and unique,...Continue Reading