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  • Qohélet (o L'Ecclesiaste)

    €400.00

    Limited and numbered edition of 62 copies printed on pure cotton cream-colored Magnani paper made in Pescia, Tuscany.

    Italian edition of the Old Testament's "Ecclesiastes"
    New translation from Hebrew by Guido Ceronetti.

  • De Aetna Liber - Petri Bembi

    €430.00

    Limited edition of 46 numbered copies typeset by hand in moveable types, letter by letter, and letterpress printed on cotton paper made in Sicily with the groundwater from the volcano Etna

    Etching by Walter Valentini, signed and numbered, made expressly for this edition.

    This edition printed in Latin is a tribute to the famous incunabulum printed by Aldus Manutius in 1495, which is considered to be the first modern book.
    Bembo tells about his trip to Sicily to learn Greek and about his ascent to the top of volcano Etna. 

  • Dialogo delle Lingue - Sperone Speroni (1500-1588)

    €460.00

    Limited edition of 16 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.

    A debate between advocates of the ongoing superiority of Latin and Greek, and proponents of vernacular, celebrates the beauty and the full dignity of the Italian language.

  • L’Infinito - Giacomo Leopardi

    €480.00

    Limited edition of 9 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.

    The essay by Davide Rondoni unveils the secrets and meanings of this universal sonnet, which relates the nature of man to the infinite.

  • Manuel des Amphitryons - Grimod de la Reynière

    €480.00
    Limited edition of 200 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter.
    French edition. 
    «Ouvrage indispensable a tous ceux qui sont jaloux de faire bonne chère, et de la faire faire aux autres».
  • Types for Advertising - specimen book (Vol. II)

    €520.00

    Fifty 20th-century masterpieces of Advertising created by the world’s foremost type designers

    This unique type specimen book allows you to see types in their original design, without the intervention of digital manipulation. In fact, this is the only collectable series typeset by hand in original foundry types, cast between the 1900’s and 1970’s by the most notable European and North-American foundries.

  • Types for Advertising - specimen book (Vol. III)

    €520.00

    Fifty 20th-century masterpieces of Advertising created by the world’s foremost type designers

    This unique type specimen book allows you to see types in their original design, without the intervention of digital manipulation. In fact, this is the only collectable series typeset by hand in original foundry types, cast between the 1900’s and 1970’s by the most notable European and North-American foundries.

  • types for Advertising - specimen book (VOL. I)

    €520.00

    Fifty 20th-century masterpieces of Advertising created by the world’s foremost type designers

    This unique type specimen book allows you to see types in their original design, without the intervention of digital manipulation. In fact, this is the only collectable series typeset by hand in original foundry types, cast between the 1900’s and 1970’s by the most notable European and North-American foundries.

  • Italian wood types - specimen book 1/2

    €580.00

    Type specimen book printed from wood types cut by hand in Italy between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century.

    Their kaleidoscopic expressiveness, either Apollonian or Dionysian, oldstyle or fanciful, reflects the scope of Italian creativity in the field of wood type engraving.

    This edition is part of the collections of major libraries, in Italy and abroad.

  • Le avventure di Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi

    €600.00

    The most famous Italian novel, letterpress-printed on light-blue pure-cotton paper (the same color as the hair of the Blue Fairy), mould-made in Sicily expressly for this edition.

    Limited edition of 190 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter.

  • Canti orfici - dino campana

    €680.00

    With three unpublished letters by Dino Campana.

    Foreword by Davide Rondoni. Final note by Gigliola Tallone. 

    Limited edition of 28 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter.

  • Conferenza Nobel - Pablo Neruda

    €680.00
    Limited edition of 60 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed. They include an original graphic print by Ugo Nespolo, made in stencil technique, signed and numbered.
    Edition in Italian language.
    One of the most memorable speech ever delivered by a Nobel laureate, it was held by Pablo Neruda in Stockholm at the Nobel Prize awarding ceremony. In the speech Neruda recounts his escape through the Andes, an adventurous journey which becomes the metaphor of the mysterious path of Poetry.
    Neruda was awarded the Literature Nobel Prize in 1971; few months later, the first original edition of his moving speech was printed by   the Tallone Press. At that time it was printed in Spanish, while this second edition is now printed in Italian.