SP Books is an independent publishing house specialised in the publication of limited facsimile editions of literary
manuscripts.
Founded in 2012 by Nicolas Tretiakow and Jessica Nelson, SP Books has published the manuscripts of major literary figures including
Francis Scott Fitzgerald,
Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ( , ; ; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel ''Frankenstein, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'' (1818), which is considered an History of science fiction# ...
,
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish author, poet, and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential playwright ...
,
Victor Hugo,
Virginia Woolf,
Marcel Proust,
Lewis Carroll,
Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne (;''Longman Pronunciation Dictionary''. ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet and playwright.
His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the ''Voyages extraor ...
&
Charlotte Brontë.
Based in
Paris
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,
France
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, SP Books publishes oversize, slipcased books that are printed on deluxe paper and feature facsimiles of the handwritten manuscripts, with revisions and notes. Most print runs are limited and hand-numbered.
“SP” stands for “Saints Peres”, district of Paris where the company was originally founded
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References
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Book publishing companies of France