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Best Art Book Publishing Companies in UK

Showing 15 publishers that match your search.

Taylor & Francis Publishing

Genres: Medical, Psychology, Math & Science, Law, Sports & Outdoors, Politics, Environmental, Business, Art, and Nonfiction

Location: London, GB

Website: https://taylorandfrancis.com/

Accepts unagented submissions

No

Largest

💥 Hit titles
How Learning Happens

Carl Hendrick & Paul Arthur Kirschner

Closing the Reading Gap

Alex Quigley

Motivational Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Paul Earnshaw & Cathy Atkinson

Yale University Press

Genres: Academic, Photography, Art, Math & Science, Education & Reference, Biographies & Memoirs, Business, Economics, History, Law, Politics, Religion & Spirituality, African-American, Law, and Nonfiction

Location: Hartford, GB

Website: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/

Accepts unagented submissions

Yes Manuscript entries & book proposals - View guidelines →

University press

💥 Hit titles
Atlas of AI

Kate Crawford

Reimagining Time

Tanya Bub & Jeffrey Bub

Radical Vision

Soyica Diggs Colbert

Lund Humphries

Genres: Art, Architecture, and Nonfiction

Location: London, GB

Website: https://www.lundhumphries.com/

Accepts unagented submissions

Yes Book proposals - View guidelines →

Indie publisher

Mid size

💥 Hit titles
Visions of Heaven

Martin Kemp

Young Poland

Julia Griffin & Andrzej Szczerski

Building Brands

Grace Ong Yan

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Thames & Hudson

Genres: Picture Book, Art, History, Architecture, Math & Science, Photography, DIY, Children's, and Nonfiction

Location: London, GB

Website: https://thamesandhudson.com/

Accepts unagented submissions

Yes Book proposals - View guidelines →

Indie publisher

Mid size

💥 Hit titles
Plague, Pestilence and Pandemic

Peter Furtado

1001 Bees

Joanna Rzezak

Out to Sea

Helen Kellock

Laurence King Publishing

Genres: Art, Architecture, Photography, DIY, Environmental, Sports & Outdoors, Picture Book, Nonfiction, and Children's

Location: London, GB

Website: https://www.laurenceking.com/

Accepts unagented submissions

Yes Book proposals -

Indie publisher

Small press

💥 Hit titles
The Short Story of the Novel

Henry Russell

Yayoi Kusama

Robert Shore

Tarot For All Ages

Elizabeth Haidle

Quarto Publishing Group

Genres: Cookbook, Art, Travel, Biographies & Memoirs, Sports & Outdoors, Architecture, DIY, Math & Science, Picture Book, Nonfiction, and Children's

Location: London, GB

Website: https://www.quarto.com/

Accepts unagented submissions

Yes Book proposals - View guidelines →

Mid size

💥 Hit titles
Emmeline Pankhurst: Little People, Big Dreams

Lisbeth Kaiser

The Complete Grimoire

Lidia Pradas

Quick Keto

Martina Slajerova

Quarto Creates

Genres: Art, Photography, and Nonfiction

Part of: Quarto Group > Quarto Creates

Location: London, GB

Website: https://www.quarto.com/

Accepts unagented submissions

Yes Book proposals - View guidelines →

Mid size

💥 Hit titles
If You Can Cut, You Can Collage

Hollie Chastain

The Design of Dissent, Expanded Edition

Mirko Ilić & Milton Glaser

Pocket Art: Portrait Drawing

Joanna Henly

Art / Books

Genres: Picture Book, Art, Biographies & Memoirs, Photography, Architecture, Nonfiction, and Children's

Location: London, GB

Website: https://www.artbookspublishing.co.uk/

Accepts unagented submissions

Yes Book proposals - View guidelines →

Indie publisher

Small press

💥 Hit titles
The Roundel

Tamsin Dillon

Lament

Bettina von Zwehl & Josh Cohen

Modern World

Michael Bracewell

Tate Publishing

Genres: Art and Nonfiction

Location: London, GB

Website: https://www.tate.org.uk/

Accepts unagented submissions

No

Indie publisher

Mid size

💥 Hit titles
The Dogist: Photographic Encounters with 1,000 Dogs

Elias Weiss Friedman

The Cat

Emilia Will

Hard Times for Unicorn

Michaël El Fathi

Oxford University Press

Genres: Education & Reference, Academic, Math & Science, History, Politics, Art, Architecture, Literary Fiction, Medical, Law, Nonfiction, and Fiction

Location: Oxford, GB

Website: https://global.oup.com/?cc=us

Accepts unagented submissions

Yes Book proposals - View guidelines →

Largest

💥 Hit titles
The Perfect Fit

Naomi Jones

Tsunami

James Goff & Walter Dudley

Principles of Cost Accounting

Johan Hefer

What do book publishers do?

Sure, a book publisher prints and sells your book. But what they do behind the scenes encompasses much more than that. Publishers handle the entire publishing process for books, including: 

  • Editing the book, i.e. developmental editing, copy editing, and proofreading; 
  • Designing the book, i.e. book cover design and any necessary interior book design;
  • Promotion and marketing, i.e. writing the book’s blurb, email marketing, setting up media interviews, etc.; and
  • Production and distribution, i.e. formatting and distributing hardback, paperback, and ebook versions of the book to stores, both online and brick-and-mortar. 

Note that the structure of publishing companies may differ, depending on their size. Bigger book publishers may be made up of publishing houses which may, in turn, be made up of imprints — each of which will have its own brand identity in terms of the type of books it publishes. 

However, regardless of a publisher’s size, the scope of their work shouldn’t change. Once you sign with a publisher, they will do everything that it takes to bring your book to market. 

What are the most prominent book publishing companies?

If we define success by sheer sales volume, then we might point towards the "Big 5" presses and educational publishers (who rake in a LOT of money). Over the past few decades, these giant publishing companies have merged with and acquired most of the mid-sized publishers in the industry. However, a few still remain. Here are today's biggest book publishing companies:

  • Penguin Random House (Big 5)
  • Hachette Book Group (Big 5)
  • HarperCollins (Big 5)
  • Macmillan Publishers (Big 5)
  • Simon & Schuster (Big 5)
  • Scholastic Corporation
  • Pearson Education
  • McGraw-Hill Education
  • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Cengage Learning

Together, these largest publishers dominate the publishing landscape. Countless beloved books come from their imprints, many of which you’ll find in our directory. 

The rest of the publishing landscape is largely made up of small publishers, or independent publishers. Most big publishers don’t directly accept unsolicited submissions without a literary agent — but smaller publishers do, making them a realistic and worthwhile route to publication. 

I have a long list of publishers. What next?

Congratulations! Now take a moment to thoroughly vet every publisher on your longlist. Scams are a dime a dozen in the publishing industry, and you want to make 100% sure that you’re dealing with a legitimate publishing company. Again, we strongly recommend reading this post and Writer Beware to know what red flags to watch out for.

When you’re confident in all of the publishers on your longlist, it’s time for the most nerve-wracking step: submitting your manuscript to them. 

Check out our free resources if you’re feeling daunted by what comes next. Whether you’re learning how to research publishers or how to personalize a submission, we've got you covered.

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