Our primary business is publishing the Terrascopædia, an illustrated occasional dedicated to underground rock, folk and psychedelic music. We feel that printing the magazine in letterpress gives the pages and the words thereon both weight and dignity. The magazine has depth and warmth; it's a tactile, physical counterpoint to the glossy uniformity of the scrolling acres of today's bland digital media.

The Terrascopædia itself is a direct descendant of a commercially printed offset litho magazine named 'the Ptolemaic Terrascope' which was published between 1989 and 2004, but it's also very much a standalone publication. As far as we know it's the only magazine of its kind in the world.

The primary type used throughout the Terrascopædia is 12pt Poliphilus (Monotype series 170). The fount of metal type currently used was cast for us in 2022 on an original Monotype Composition Caster owned by the Paekakariki Press in Walthamstow, London - quite literally around the corner from where the original Ptolemaic Terrascope magazine was printed - our previous type (12pt Caslon cast for us in 2014) having worn thin with use.  

Poliphilus was a 1923 revival of 15th century lettering introduced by the Monototype Corporation Ltd, then based near Redhill in Surrey, based on the text of the 'Hypnerotomachia Poliphili' which was printed in Venice by Aldus Manitus in 1499. Although during its short life Poliphilus was much admired by members of the Arts and Crafts movement in England and used exclusively by several private presses, it was superseded in 1929 by the completely redrawn Monotype Bembo (series 270) which went on to become hugely successful, thanks in no small part to its adoption in 1935 as the text used throughout Penguin books. Monotype Blado (series 119, 1923) is the italic companion. Both Blado and Poliphilus are used side by side throughout the Terrascopædia.