Candi Press is a small press with one conviction: some books deserve to be read slowly, and to be made with the care that asks for it. We set type by hand — old craft — in classical faces on cream paper; we hunt every widow, orphan, and hanging word; we read a text root by root before we ever call it finished. The trained human eye is our final judge — of a word, and of a page.
We publish across three currents:
Primary sources carried into English, sourced and faced.
The old tongues read one word at a time, image as judge.
Recovered and composed writing, made to last.
Zé da Flauta’s book of crônicas on memory and forgetting, in the key of humour — the second Candi Press literary title, sibling to his mother Marilda’s Historinhas.
If you are an author — living, or carrying a parent’s or a friend’s unpublished work — and you want it made well and brought to readers, write to me. I edit, I typeset, I design the cover, and I bring the book onto Amazon as its Editor. You keep your name on the spine; I make sure the pages are worthy of it.
What the house has printed — the Testamentum Domini collection, a mystery play, and the first literary title. Each one made with the same care.