Recognition
Awards index
A quality signal collectors and curators weigh. We record awards only where we can cite them — this index is seeded and grows as award rolls (Carl Hertzog, the Oxford Fine Press Book Fair judges' choices, genre fine-press prizes) are added and presses claim their honours.
- Gaspereau Press
In-house letterpress + offset trade books with fine production
● Open now · as of 2025- Giller Prize (Johanna Skibsrud, The Sentimentalists)
- Kate Holland Books
Multi-award fine bookbinder publishing limited editions in collaboration with letterpress printers
● Open now · as of 2026-05- Fellow of Designer Bookbinders
- Homo Faber Master Artisan
- Nēpenthé Press
Fine-press limited editions of horror/weird/gothic fiction; won inaugural Alderbrink Best Fine Press Horror
◐ Forthcoming · as of 2026-05- Alderbrink Award — Best Fine Press Horror 2025 (Cold Hand in Mine)
- Solmentes Press
Elegant readable letterpress fine editions & digital artists' books; ex-Controller of Gregynog Press
● Open now · as of 2026-05- Felice Feliciano Award for Book Design 1991 (at Gregynog)
- The Artichoke Press
Fine limited editions of literature & photography; hand-set letterpress (Oscar Lewis Award 2012)
● Open now · as of 2026-05- Oscar Lewis Award 2012 (Book Club of California)
- Western Books Award of Merit
Know an award we're missing? Tell us — with a citable source, we'll add it.