Bound Art Book Fair returns to the Whitworth Art Gallery from 31 October - 1 November 2026 for EDITION X

For ten years, Bound Art Book Fair's mission has been to provide a platform for a diverse and international range of projects and exhibitors to share their work and reach new audiences, with a particular focus on those from the North of England. We build and sustain communities around print publishing practices whilst exploring the potential for expanded forms of publishing that engage or interact with performance, music, sculpture, fashion, moving image and activism. 

“Get involved!” is a foundational principle.

This year our programme explores all things X: markers, symbols and mark-making; mysterious or anonymous phenomena; X-rated and marginalised desire; and the ways we observe and process the passing of time.

All events are free to attend and our full programme will be announced soon.

Exhibitors

0.08 Imprints
01226 Collective
20k and a dead sheep
Alan Tapster / Shale Editions
Archidustrial
Axis Projects Publishing
BADBOY STUDIOS
Baron
Bemojake
Boggart Press
BOOT Mag
BOROUGH
Bracken books
Bruise Studio
Buku-Buku
BULLY MAG
BUNNY BISSOUX
Caterpillar Press
Cc'd
Chris Printed This
Collected Volumes
Collecto Verso
Common Threads Press
CRAIC
CWYR Zine
Dance Policy
DEEPSTATE PRESS
Discontent
DR.ME / Waiting Room Press
Erin Jackson Raynes
FILLER / Holly Eliza Temple
Fistful of Books
Flazzle
Footfall
Four Corners Books
George Grace Gibson
GULP
HARDEL
imperfect index
IRL Sports
James Unsworth
Jessie Churchill
Jessie Natsumi Troutt
Jwllrs
Khabar Keslan Magazine - مجلة خبر كسلان
Lauria Galbraith
Less Than 500 Press
LOOSE JOINTS
lu fraser (wet bog)
Lucy Roberts
Luke Stephenson
MACK/SPBH
Manchester School of Art / Must Sell Our Artbooks (MSOA)
Marc Wilson
MARCO BELARDINELLI
Matthew James Fleming
Morgan Ambler + Gary Statham
Morley House
object | multiple
Occasional Papers
Ochre Books
Out of Place Books
Oval Press
Overlapse
Pariah Press & Ra-Bear
Phil Coy
Photomafia Books
Pollard Street Photo
Practising Empathy in Mirrors
Press Club Books
Rear Window Editions
Record 28
Replika Publishing
Ritesh Uttamchandani
Rosie's Disobedient Press
Self Publishing Picnic
Sepulveda Fialho
Set Margins’ publications
Shire Studio
Silly Dogs Brunch Club
STAT
Strike Design Studio
Studio Public House
Surface Editions
Sweet Tooth
tallfingerpress
Taxi Cab Industries
Team Trident Press
The BREAK—DOWN
THE FATCANFLUB
the modernist
Thomas Frankland
Trondheim Academy of Fine Art and Chicks on Speed
UR NXT Editions
USELESS
VILLAGE
World Force Artifacts
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Find out more about our previous fairs in our Archive

Bound Art Book Fair firmly opposes all forms of sexism, racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, classism and hyper-surveillance. We have a history of platforming under-represented and marginalised voices through our free public programmes, and have supported organisations that promote worker-led struggle, migrant's rights, decolonisation, and an end to cultures of incarceration. We believe that challenging systems of discrimination demands intersectionality and personal accountability. We stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine.