Since 1996

Complete texts, newly set, sewn and bound in cloth.

The Saint Austin Press brings the books that formed the Catholic mind in England back into print as they deserve to be made: complete, never abridged; reset wherever the old type had worn thin; printed on cream paper; sewn, not glued; and bound in cloth over boards, with endpapers, headbands and a ribbon.

“Prayer is man's richest boon. It is his light, his nourishment, and his very life.”

Dom Prosper Guéranger · General Preface to The Liturgical Year

  • Sewn, not glued

    Every book is sewn in signatures, the traditional and more expensive way, so that no page will ever come loose.

  • A Practical Commentary on Holy Scripture lying open flat, with ribbon marker

    Opens flat, and stays open

    A sewn book lies flat at virtually any page, which is what a book meant for daily reading and prayer must do.

  • Close-up of the sewn binding of A Practical Commentary on Holy Scripture, pages fanned open

    Cloth over boards

    Cotton cloth and gold blocking on the spine, patterned endpapers, headbands and a ribbon marker: the finish a book deserves if it is to be kept.