About Byzantium Books

Byzantium is pleased to announce the publication of its third book, Textile Designs on Paper, in collaboration with textile historian Susan Meller. Details can be found by going to the Upcoming tab above.

Byzantium is a collaboration between Barbara Hodgson and Claudia Cohen. In 2022, for our debut publication we published Paper Botanists, followed a year later by Marbled Paper. But our publishing endeavours really began in 2007 with The Temperamental Rose, a work devoted to historical and fictional colour charts. Our list has since grown to 14 books, all written and designed by Barbara, except the last, which has been co-authored with Susan. They have all been bound by Claudia, and most have been embellished by Barbara and Claudia with drawings, ornamentations and meticulous handcolouring.

Until 2019, our books appeared under the imprint of Rollin Milroy’s Heavenly Monkey Editions. Rollin has also printed many of our books on his hand press. In this site you will find the books we have published under both imprints since 2007. Also shown are Good & Evil in the Garden and Expressed, written and designed by Barbara, printed by Rollin and published by Heavenly Monkey; as well as books created by Claudia and published by Heavenly Monkey Editions or by Claudia.