Making Books: a personal manifesto is a short essay theorizing on the processes and motivations behind bookmaking.

It was originally published for the 2021 Hopscotch Small Publishers fair. Written, designed and bound by Lauria Joan.

5-hole pamphlet binding, riso printed in Purple and Flat Gold.

Pseudo Press inhabits a weird space between bookbindery, publishing studio, and vanity project. The vanity is Lauria Joan, a bookmaker based in Berlin. With a focus on the archival, the ancient, and the apocryphal, Pseudo Press has been alliterating since 2020.