Specialist book printing
Coffee-table book printing
Premium photography, art and gift books printed in-house. Thread-sewn binding, sizes up to 300mm square, luxury cover finishes.
Premium photography, art and gift books printed in-house. Thread-sewn binding, sizes up to 300mm square, luxury cover finishes.
A coffee-table book is the format where the materials carry as much weight as the content. The cover stock, the page weight, the binding, the way the paper takes ink — if any of that’s not right, the book reads as stationery rather than statement.
We print short-run coffee-table books for photographers, artists, brands and private commissions. Premium thread-sewn binding, sizes up to 300mm square, and a cover system that runs from printed paper case through to leather, linen and vegan equivalents. From 10 copies — useful for portfolio editions, gallery commissions, anniversary books and limited-edition prints.
Photographer’s portfolio editions. Premium coated paper, thread-sewn lay-flat binding for panoramic spreads, foil-blocked cloth covers.
Gallery exhibition catalogues, artist monographs, museum-grade publications. Bookwove paper for monochrome work, coated for full colour.
Architecture practices, fashion houses, hospitality brands — premium gift editions and brand-anniversary commissions in short runs.
Memoirs, family histories, milestone-anniversary collections. The same in-house production standard at 10–50 copy quantities.
Coffee-table books are large-format colour hardbacks on premium coated paper. The numbers below assume A4 case-bound hardback on 150gsm matt-coated paper. Add roughly 15–30% for cloth covers, foil blocking, dust jackets and ribbon markers. Get an exact quote for your spec.
| Format | Specification | Quantity | Per copy |
|---|---|---|---|
A4 coffee-table book |
150pp colour · case bound · 150gsm matt |
50 | £19.05per copy |
A4 coffee-table book |
150pp colour · case bound · 150gsm matt |
100 | £15.70per copy |
A4 coffee-table book |
150pp colour · case bound · 150gsm matt |
250 | £14.08per copy |
Prices include UK delivery, exclude VAT. For the full UK book printing prices across paperback and hardback at every quantity tier, see our pricing page — or get an exact quote for your spec →
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Print-ready PDF preferred (300 DPI, CMYK, 3mm bleed). Free file check on every job.
Digital or printed proof — your choice — sent for sign-off before press.
Covers and bookblocks printed on calibrated digital presses in our Exeter facility.
Pages sewn into sections, hardback case bound, foil blocked, finishes applied.
Hand-finished, wrapped, packed and dispatched via DPD or pallet courier.
From 10 copies upwards. We specialise in short-run digital printing — most coffee-table editions on the high street come from offshore long runs of 5,000+ copies, but we can produce the same finishing standard at 10, 25 or 50 copies for portfolio editions, gallery commissions or private-press runs.
Because the gutter eats your panoramic spreads. Thread-sewn binding stitches the pages into sections before binding, so the book opens flat across every double-page spread — essential for landscape photography, art reproductions and any image that crosses the centre of the book. Perfect-bound (glued spine) photo books always swallow part of the image at the gutter.
Gloss for the most saturated colour reproduction; ideal for high-contrast photography and product shots. Silk is the middle ground — vibrant colour without the high-gloss shine; the most popular for editorial photography. Matte reads as more refined; better for monochrome work and editorial-led books where the photography wants to feel restrained rather than saturated.
Yes. Printed dust jackets over a cloth or PPC case are common for premium coffee-table editions — the case underneath can be foil-blocked or embossed so the book still looks deliberate with the jacket removed. Slipcases and presentation boxes also available for the most premium gift editions.
Standard turnaround is around 10–14 working days for hardback, faster for paperback editions. Express options are available where the deadline is tight — call before placing the order if you have a fixed gallery opening or launch date and we’ll confirm what’s achievable.
Up to 300mm × 300mm square as standard. Larger formats are possible by special arrangement; drop us a note with the trim size you’re considering and we’ll confirm whether it’s within our binding equipment’s range.
Yes — order a free sample pack with examples of cloth Wibalin, leather, foil-blocking, paper weights and binding styles. Particularly useful for photographers and artists making spec decisions for portfolio editions.
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