The Year in Fine Press 2025

Continuing our series of threads devoted to fine press releases for the calendar year, this one being 2025. The lists are alphabetical by press and title. The Released list includes books actually released in 2025. The Forthcoming list includes those which are announced or available for pre-order in 2025.

While as of this writing 2024 still has a few months left, there are announcements accumulating for 2025 as well. So I am starting the thread now in order not to lose track of those. There is a strong chance that a number of the forthcoming 2024 titles will slip onto here too at the end of the year. As always, please send your own contributions along for inclusion, and thanks!

Released

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Forthcoming

Areté Editions
· Brave New World
Arion Press
· Gilgamesh
Barbarian Press
· A Scanty Plot of Ground
· Bordering on the Sublime
Books Illustrated
· Beowulf
Curious King
· Last Argument of Kings
· The Martian
Fablelistik Editions
· The Invisible Life of Addie Larue
· The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Factotum Pers
· Alphabetum Romanum
Hand & Eye
· Shadows of Time
· The Woman in White
Nepenthe Press
· Metropolis
· The Music of Erich Zann
No Reply Press
· Depositions: Essays on Bookmaking
· mystery Irish folktale title
Paekakariki Press
· London Pastoral
Plain Wrapper Press Redux
· CELLINI: Casting The Perseus/La fusione del Perseo
· Pilgrims & Guests

Added The Legend of Sleepy Hollow from new imprint Fablelistik Editions (part of Macmillan publishing). This is being printed in three editions, the top two tiers of which are letterpress printed by Pat Randle (Nomad Letterpress), with the Numbered edition bound by Roger Grech (R. Grech Bindery) and the Lettered edition bound by Gavin Dovey (Paper Dragon Books). The book is available for pre-order and slated to release in Spring 2025.

Beowulf with the William Morris/AJ Wyatt translation newly illustrated by Alice Cao published by Books Illustrated Ltd. Letterpress by Nomad Letterpress and binding by Ludlow Bookbinders. Pre-order date to be announce soon - Release Summer 2025 Only 8 Prestige Vellum Editions and 292 Collectors (Morris) Editions. More details to follow.

>3 Books-Illustrated: Much ta, added to the list.

Two titles on the slate for No Reply Press added to the list.

The first is one some of us received the prospectus for in recent shipments. Griffin is collaborating with Chad from Sutton Hoo/Last Press to bring out a book of essays, tentatively titled Depositions: Essays on Bookmaking.

He also told me that I should add a second title to be announced, which he describes thus:

An Irish folk legend with woodblocks by a well-known contemporary Irish artist

Looking forward to both!

>5 Shadekeep: I think the title on the Oness book still needs work.

>6 SuttonHooPress: Yeah I thought it was going to be called Chad, Chad, and more Chad

Depositions is good too, I guess.

>7 grifgon: Someone else has a book of essays with that title. I'm thinking "More Cowbell!"

>8 SuttonHooPress: Damn, the good titles are always taken.

>6 SuttonHooPress: I want to make some pun about 'hanging chads' here, but can't figure out a way to do it. :-(

>6 SuttonHooPress: Chad II: The Onus of Oness (in 3D)

To Fish Upon a Star: Chad Flounders, Perches; then Flies to Success

(Appreciate your work, Chad.)

I got a fever, and the only thing for it is More Cowbell!

Chad: Country or Printer?

So Good That It's So Chad

>14 grifgon: Punch on Through to the Other Side

>6 SuttonHooPress: and >7 grifgon: How about Giga-Chad? seeding the minds of the fine press world with great fecundity

Tap into sci-fi fandom with "Doctor Hoo, The Last Presslord"

"Hanging Around With Chad"

Based on the anecdotes that Chad is sharing in another thread, particularly this one, how about a title like "Roll with the Punch"?

Or maybe "Relaxing the Bite"?

Perhaps this is already known, but it looks like Arion Press will be releasing "Fables of Aesop" in 2025 at some point.

>20 A.Nobody: Thanks! I had heard of that but it hasn't been added to the list yet, doing so now. It looks great.

Aesop is part of the 2024 Arion subscription and is noted in the 2024 thread. I still hope it will be released before the end of the year. 2025 is supposed to include Gilgamesh plus 2 other titles.

>22 Folio_and_Fine: Ah, that's where I heard it mentioned, then. I'll take it off here for now and add Gilgamesh, and if it doesn't come out in 2024 it will migrate here with all the other ones that ran over time.

>22 Folio_and_Fine: Thanks for the clarification. I thought I had heard of it before somewhere.

Another forthcoming title announced by Hand & Eye on social media - Shadows of Time by Ian Beck with woodblock prints by Duncan Montgomery. The print shown looks very fine indeed!

>1 Shadekeep: Do books available for pre-order but not released until 2025 go here?

If so:

Amaranthine Books The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Lyra’s Books The Alchemist.

Curious King The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Conversation Tree Press Foundation and Solaris.

>26 cyber_naut: My basic practice is that books listed for pre-order go in the current year thread, but if they don't make it out that year then they move to the next year thread. What I'm listing here for now are those titles which presses have announced as being on the slate for next year, with not even pre-orders open yet. I know it's a bit convoluted, but that's my logic for these threads.

Expect to see a lot of the remaining 2024 titles spill over onto this list in January!

Curious King will be doing The Martian by Andy Weir in 2025

>28 jsg1976: Thanks. Hopefully the book is better than the movie.

>29 Shadekeep:
Movies are 95% of the time shit.

>30 Ragnaroekk: According to Sturgeon's Law, "90% of everything is crap."

>31 Glacierman:
True 😁

Hopefully No Reply's edition of The Waste Land too...

Added two letterpress titles that are on the calendar for Nepenthe Press in 2025. The first is The Music of Erich Zann, the second weird fiction short (following The Fall of the House of Usher and produced in complimentary format). Then their first full-length letterpress edition, the 100th anniversary printing of Metropolis. More details available here: https://www.nepenthepress.co.uk/post/special-christmas-giveaway