Why do the Tallpoppy Charmed books cost so much ?
Tallpoppy Studio books are a little more expensive than some others you may find However, they are not so expensive for what you are getting. Archie has spent best part of 25 years learning this trade and over nine months researching and painting all the art work, researching the best materials for the books like acid free archival paper that is rated to last more than 300 years. How much would it cost to have printed 220 colour A3 pages? Photocopying alone would be $4 = $880. You couldn’t get a printer to do just a couple of copies as the cost to set up all the seperate plates would be astronomical. Most of the cheap copies out there are not correctly bound in the same hand sewn traditional methods we use. We don’t know of anyone that has a set of these exact replicas on the market other than us. You could scan each page if you had our book and graphics. Hand age the paper and then print them out yourselves. It takes one set of ink cartridges to print one TVOS book and a full set of p
