I'm a fan of Black Letter Press. Their M.O. is to find various antique texts, commission new translations and package them in fine examples of the bookbinder's art. My small shelf of their offerings includes a number of famous grimoires, Agrippa's four volume De Occulta Philosophia, Bruno's Magia, The Anatomy of Melancholy and Holbein's Der Toten Tanz (which provided the illustrations for my Doom pamphlets).

This is their 2023 Christmas offering, a reprint of Schneider Von Groot's Christmas Dream. It's a short poem, originally printed in 1885 and attributed to "Broadbrim" (a name that for me, pleasantly evokes Delta Green's Hotel Broadalbin). The poem itself is a warning against the dangers of indulging in schnapps, and sees Von Groot beset by drunken demons on his walk home from the pub. It's charming but also rather sinister. That latter quality is underscored by Marco Sabbatani's illustration for this edition, which is a phantasmagoric odyssey in its own right.

The piece and its art are both gravy, though; I bought this primarily because the design of the book intrigued me. It is a leporello binding: a concertina folded pamphlet bound in a traditional hard cover, so you can read it as "pages" or fold the whole thing out into a panorama (which serves Sabbatani's art nicely). I can't help but wonder if RPG pamphlets will move into this format some day...

(Photo below borrowed from the BLP site)