Marlpit Press

Books worth
bringing back.

Independent editions of overlooked and enduring works in history, literature, mystery, myth, translation, and the humanities.

Careful text preparation, serious research, restrained design, and editions with a reason to exist.
About

Marlpit Press

Marlpit Press is an independent publisher of overlooked and enduring books in history, literature, mystery, translation, myth, and the humanities. The list is deliberately selective. A Marlpit edition should offer more than a new cover around an old file.

That can mean working from a later authorial text, translating a neglected version, restoring a difficult-to-find novel, or supplying the historical context that makes an old book newly legible. The website is part of that work: book pages explain what the work is, why it matters, how the edition relates to earlier texts, and what the research behind it has uncovered.