Potion Books

Potion books for every year of study: Basic Potion Making for beginners and Advanced Potion Making by Libatius Borage, with handwritten-style notes in the margins of every copy — corrected recipes, crossed-out steps and private remarks. Fully readable A5 hardcovers, printed and bound by hand, in English, German, French, Russian and Japanese editions, as single books or potion and history sets.

Potion books in our shop

Everything for the potions classroom in one place — single potion books, the two-book potions course, sets with history and theory, and the potions textbook in five languages:

• Advanced Potion Making by Libatius Borage — the sixth-year potions textbook and our best-known potion book replica: 50+ advanced recipes with ingredient preparation, brewing times and stirring directions.
• Basic Potion Making — the beginner potion making book: cauldrons, scales, stirring, recognising ingredients and 20+ first recipes.
• Potion Making Books: Basic & Advanced, Set of 2 — the whole potions course in two volumes, both with margin notes.
• Potion Book with Margin Notes & A History of Magic — a classic first pair for a wizarding school shelf.
• Potions Class & Magic Theory Books, Set of 4 — both potion books together with A History of Magic and Theory of Magic.
• Zaubertränke für Fortgeschrittene — the German edition of the advanced potions textbook.
• Fabrication avancée de potions — the French edition.
• Зельеварение — the Russian edition.
• 上級魔法薬 — the Japanese edition.
• Potion and history sets in German, French and Russian, plus the German three-book set with potions, history and the Rita Skeeter biography.

A potion book with handwritten-style notes in every copy

The margin notes are what make our potions textbook different from a plain recipe book. A gifted former owner has corrected recipes, crossed out steps and left private remarks between the instructions, so reading Advanced Potion Making feels like borrowing a well-used copy from an older student who knew better than the author. The notes are printed in a handwritten style as part of the book, so every copy has them.

Basic Potion Making carries the same kind of notes, this time from a student who clearly found the beginner instructions a little too slow. Read together, the two books show the whole potions course — and two very different note-takers.

Inside Advanced Potion Making: the potions fans look for

• Felix Felicis — liquid luck, and why it is so hard to brew well
• Polyjuice Potion — the long, careful recipe for taking on another face
• Veritaserum, Amortentia and the Draught of Living Death — the famous potions of the advanced class
• Ingredient preparation, brewing times and stirring directions for more than fifty recipes
• Black & white illustrations of ingredients, equipment and brewing steps throughout

Everything in these potion recipe books is magical fiction: the recipes are written to be read and enjoyed, not brewed in a real kitchen.

The potions textbook in five languages

Advanced Potion Making is available in English, German, French, Russian and Japanese. German readers know it as Zaubertränke für Fortgeschrittene (the printed cover reads Fortgeschrittene Zaubertrank-Herstellung), French readers as Fabrication avancée de potions, Russian readers as Зельеварение and Japanese readers as 上級魔法薬. Each edition is printed in its language from cover to cover, margin notes included, so a potions master costume or a bookshelf in any language gets the right book.

Potion making books, made by hand

• A5 format — 14.8 × 21 cm (5.8 × 8.3 in), the size of a real school textbook
• Full colour hardcover that stands up to daily reading
• Thread-sewn binding — the book opens completely flat on a desk
• Coated paper 115 g/m² with a black & white illustrated interior
• Printed and bound by hand, all books in stock

Gift ideas for potion lovers

• A potions master or apothecary costume that needs a real book to carry
• A witchy kitchen shelf, a Halloween table or a dark academia reading corner
• A gift for a fan who loves the potions classroom more than any other lesson
• A two-language shelf — the English edition next to the German, French, Russian or Japanese one

Potion books: questions and answers

Are the margin notes in every copy?

Yes. Both Advanced Potion Making and Basic Potion Making have handwritten-style margin notes printed in every copy.

Are the recipes real?

They are written for the story world and meant for reading. Please do not try to brew them.

What comes with the order?

Free fan art prints come with every order. A single book comes with 5 free fan art prints on kraft paper A5, a set of 2 or 3 books with 9 prints, and a set of 4 or more with 9 prints plus 3 fan art wizarding magazines.

How long does delivery take?

We deliver worldwide: to the USA from 7 days and within Europe from 2 days.

Original handmade fan art editions, created by fans for fans. Not affiliated with, endorsed by or licensed by any film studio, publisher or rights holder.