Chancel Press
Recovering and restoring out-of-print works of the Anglican tradition, faithfully typeset and printed with care.
The Anglican tradition's bookshelf is wider than its present reading habits suggest. Caroline divines, eighteenth-century bishops, Tractarian fathers, and a long succession of American High Churchmen left behind a library of sermons, devotions, apologies, and treatises that shaped the Church for three hundred years, and have since slipped out of print and out of reach.
This press is a small effort to bring some of those books back. We choose carefully, set them in classical book typography, and print real editions you can keep on a shelf and hand to your children. Every text we publish is in the public domain; our editions are diplomatic, not critical, and aim to give the reader the words as their authors left them. We are not in this for the money. We are in it for the books.
The Current Slate
The press's opening series gathers the works of John Henry Hobart (1775–1830), Bishop of New York and the leading voice of early American High Church Anglicanism.