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Black Letter Press is a small, independent publisher,
devoted to the revive of old books.

26/09/2026

A world of botanical knowledge and medieval imagination, preserved on the pages of a herbal from around 1400.

Created in Italy, ERBARIO brings together approximately 180 botanical illustrations, from fantastical plants with human faces to finely observed studies of roots, leaves, flowers, and fruit.

Three distinct styles coexist within its pages: elaborate medieval imagery, rough ink drawings, and increasingly naturalistic depictions that reflect the emerging curiosity of the Renaissance.

Annotations in Latin and Veneto-Italian record medicinal properties and preparation methods. Written around, and sometimes across, the illustrations, they reveal the manuscript’s use as a working document of botanical knowledge.

Featuring a transcription by Alice Rocchetti, this edition offers a glimpse into the meeting of folklore, medicine, and art in late medieval Italy.

Explore Erbario at Black Letter Press.

20/09/2026

One of the foundations of Western magic began as a lost book.

Composed in the ninth century by Al-Kindi, philosopher of the Islamic Golden Age and one of the first to carry Greek thought into Arabic, De Radiis sets out a visionary theory of the universe: all things emit rays that act upon all other things, binding stars, stones, words, and living beings into a single fabric of cause and effect. Astrology, speech, song, and ritual all draw their power from the same law.
The Arabic original is lost. What survives is a Latin translation made back from it, and it was that text that entered the Western esoteric tradition, read for centuries alongside the Picatrix and echoing through every later theory of natural magic.
Part philosophical speculation, part metaphysical treatise, De Radiis remains one of the foundations of Western esotericism, and still feels startlingly modern in its attempt to connect mind, matter, symbol, and cosmos. Newly translated by Scott Gosnell, this Black Letter Press edition returns the work to clear, living English. A beautiful limited edition.

Available via Black Letter Press.

16/09/2026

CALENDARIUM NATURALE MAGICUM PERPETUUM

Attributed to the alchemist and Rosicrucian Johann Baptist Großschedel von Aicha (1577 – after 1631), the Calendarium was transferred into its vertical print form by Matthäus Merian the Elder and published in Oppenheim by Johann Theodor de Bry. Großschedel’s own manuscript lies behind it (British Library, Harley MS 3420, 1614) with a marginal note complaining that de Bry had the print made without his knowledge.

Its structure is a descent. Twelve rows move from unity into multiplicity: the first, unus, holds God, the World Soul and the Philosopher’s Stone; the second, the binaries that strive toward union, Adam and Eve, Sol and Luna, form and matter; the last opens into the twelve signs, the months, the turning of the year. Through it run the seven planetary children, the divine names of the Pentagrammaton, the hours of day and night, and examples of talismata.

An Art of Memory made visible: the abstract laid out in material form, possessed of symmetry and outstanding beauty.

Our edition is a faithfully reconstructed reprint of the Frankfurt / Großschedel / de Bry sheet. 570 × 1200 mm. 300g high-quality matte print.

Available now at Black Letter Press.

08/09/2026

What lies beyond the well-trodden path?

In Hidden Paths, Denis Poisson, creator of the foolishfishbooks YouTube channel, brings together transcripts from some of his most enduring and well-loved Esoteric Saturday videos.

Drawing on his explorations of the Magical traditions of East and West, Poisson approaches esoteric practice from a pragmatic and questioning perspective — looking at what might withstand experimentation, what deserves scepticism, and how we might develop our own ways of exploring consciousness and the world beyond the mundane.

From the strange experience that first set him on this path to practical approaches for those beginning their own exploration, Hidden Paths is ultimately about finding the path that was made for you.

With an introduction by Josephine McCarthy.

Beautiful edition bounded in Italian Fedrigoni Imitlin, thread sewn and finished with gold gilt to the front and spine.

Available now from Black Letter Press.

06/09/2026

Clavis Artis is among the most enigmatic works of the alchemical tradition - its text and extraordinary imagery long preserved in only a handful of sources, and largely inaccessible to modern readers.

Our edition presents the first complete English translation and transcript of the rare 1738 Jena edition, accompanied by restored imagery from the celebrated Trieste manuscript. The translation, annotations and editorial work are the achievement of Mark Kanak, with a preface by .

A major alchemical work - now available as a large-format hardcover, with a very limited Collector’s Edition.

A gift from us: until 10 September, orders of 300€ or more may choose one of three selected books.

19/08/2026

A collector's treasure now available for presale: the W. B. Yeats Library Set, bringing together three hardcover volumes exploring the poet's lifelong engagement with mysticism and the occult.

Spiritus Mundi brings together some of Yeats's key writings on a subject central to his thought: a shared, symbolic memory from which creative imagination draws — among them The Second Coming and The Celtic Element in Literature.

On Magic and the Occult follows the esoteric currents that shaped his thinking, from Kabbalah and Hermeticism to the Rosicrucian tradition of Maier, Fludd, and Ashmole.

And A Vision, first printed privately in 1925, stands as his most ambitious work of the kind — a study of history and the self built from automatic writing sessions with his wife, Georgie Hyde-Lees.

Available now as a presale. Shipping begins late September 2026.

07/08/2026

A gloomy evening, a fog settling over the city — the kind of atmosphere in which gothic fiction was born.

Our Classic Horror collection brings together landmark works spanning the genre's early development: The Vampyre by John Polidori, The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, The Monk by Matthew Lewis, Sleepy Hollow & Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving, The Golem by Gustav Meyrink, and Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.

Each traces a different current within the tradition — from Polidori's origin of the literary vampire, to Walpole's foundation of the Gothic novel itself, to Poe's only complete novel, a tale of shipwreck and survival at the edge of the known world.

Available at Black Letter Press, individually or as a set.

30/07/2026

As we move through the last days of the summer sale, a look at some of the editions still available at up to 35% off — from the grimoire tradition of Pseudomonarchia Dæmonum and Enchiridion Leonis Papæ, to Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, Rimbaud's A Season in Hell, and Emily Dickinson's poetry.

Explore the full collection before the sale ends.

24/07/2026

As the summer sale days are drawing to a close, we wanted to share a few of Black Letter Press's Designer's Picks from the collection — a selection Alice chose for the design and craftsmanship she holds closest.

Horapollon's Hieroglyphica, translated anew by Sasha Chaitow, presents one of the great enigmas of late antiquity — a fifth-century meditation on Egyptian symbolism, later rediscovered as a touchstone of Renaissance thought.

Andrea Alciato's Emblemata, following the 1534 authorized edition, pairs Latin verse with woodcut illustration — the founding work of an entirely new literary genre.

Reginald Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft, first published in 1584, is at once a rational critique of the witch trials of its era and one of the earliest surviving compendiums of magical lore.

Christina Oakley Harrington's Dreams of Witches gathers the literature that helped shape the modern image of the witch, tracing its influence on twentieth-century pagan revival.

In addition to the picks, we're also including From the Lemegeton: Ars Goetia + Ars Theurgia, a second-edition set that traces the Little Key of Solomon back through its early modern manuscript sources, well before its more familiar nineteenth-century codifications.

Discover them now, with savings of up to 35% while stocks last.

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