For over thirty years Naphtali Press (NP) has published fine quality editions of Puritan, Presbyterian and Reformed literature. Naphtali Press Special Editions (NPSE) is a series of books co-published by NP and Reformation Heritage Books (RHB). RHB handles production and sales of the titles, while NP creates the text to be published. This involves significant development costs and hearkening back to the days of subscription based and even older era of patron supported publication, NPSE relies on annual sponsor drives to raise the funds to create these texts. Sponsors at the several levels offered receive copies of all titles produced that year, a custom bookplate and recognition in the front sponsorship section of each volume, as well as other ‘rewards’ depending on sponsorship level. Sponsorship of NPSE makes it possible to publish puritan classics never yet republished, or undertake first time translation work, or transcription and editing for first time publication works still remaining in manuscripts. There are at least 228 Sermons of James Durham on Song of Solomon in manuscript, and there are a number of second reformation Scottish texts locked away in manuscript to this day. And while we have one translation project underway from 2020-21, this is very expensive work. If NPSE can continue to increase the number of sponsors each year to more significant levels, more complex, costly and multiyear projects can be undertaken.

Naphtali Press Special Editions enters its third year and it is time to renew and to seek additional sponsors for the 2021-22 Series. If you are receiving or viewing this notice it is because you have sponsored the past years or expressed interest in or saw a notice about sponsoring this year. As you know, NPSE titles are co-published with Reformation Heritage Books, but the cost to develop the texts must be raised by annual sponsorship. Through this means NPSE can undertake labor intensive critical texts, transcription work from centuries old manuscripts or first time translations of important Reformed and Presbyterian works. We have produced five titles over the last two series years in this way: Volumes 1&2 of James Durham's Commentary upon Revelation, David Dickson's Sermons on Jeremiah's Lamentations, the London Provincial Assembly's Jus Divinum Regiminis Ecclesiastici, or the Divine Right of Church Government, and the first volume of The Shorter Writings of George Gillespie. The sixth, a first time translation from the Latin of Gisbertus Voetius's On the Sabbath and Feast Day, has a delayed publication for 2022 due to the complexity of the work and the schedule of the translator (D.V.). If you sponsored for 2020-21 you will receive the Voetius when published, and new sponsors for 2021-22 will also receive a copy. The goal this year is: 1. To complete Durham's Revelation commentary with the third volume. This will include all the indexing for the three volumes and a significantly updated and extensive biography and bibliography. 2. We will produce the second volume of the Gillespie shorter writings, which will include most of the items produced when he was in London at the Westminster Assembly. 3. And the publication of the Voetius. There is also the possibility of a fully sponsored extra title, which if that comes to pass this year, all 2021-22 Sponsors will receive a copy (more information on this later if this late breaking possibility progresses to reality). The funding goal for 2021-22 is $30,000 with the hope we can again increase the number of sponsors and get NPSE on a stable trajectory that can include even more ambitious projects. Below are the regular and higher level sponsorships. Some are familiar; some are new and exciting!