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THE HORSES´ PRAYER
€60.00Found in England upon a horse manger. Broadsheet typeset by hand in movable types, printed letterpress on cotton paper made in Tuscany.Glass and wood frame with a single hook for vertical hanging. The frame is gilded with genuine gold leaf. -
Do it anyway - Saint Teresa of Calcucca
€40.00Found written on the wall in Mother Teresa's home for children in Calcutta, these precepts informed Mother Teresa’s own life and choices.Typeset by hand in movable types, printed letterpress on cotton paper made in Tuscany. -
Italian wood types - specimen book 2/2
€720.00The present alphanumeric series is printed from big, original wood types, which were handcrafted in Italy between 1850 and 1950 to be used on large broadsides.In fact, for over a century, opera and theatre plays, circus shows and fairs, political rallies and new movie releases were advertised using these iconic typefaces. -
Sonnet - Dante Alighieri
€60.00Glass and wood frame with a single hook for vertical hanging. The frame is gilded with genuine gold leaf.
Immortal poem about friendship.
Broadsheet typeset by hand in movable types, and printed on pure-cotton archival-quality paper expressly made in Dante’s Tuscany.
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Sonnet - Francesco Petrarca
€60.00Broadsheet typeset by hand in movable types, printed letterpress on cotton paper made in Tuscany.Glass and wood frame with a single hook for vertical hanging. -
Sonnet - UGO FOSCOLO
€60.00Broadsheet typeset by hand in movable types, printed letterpress on cotton paper made in Tuscany.Glass and wood frame with a single hook for vertical hanging. -
L'INFINITO - GIACOMO LEOPARDI
€60.00The sonnet which most Italians know by heart.Broadsheet typeset by hand in movable types, printed letterpress on cotton paper made in Tuscany.Glass and wood frame with a single hook for vertical hanging. -
Trattato della vita elegante - Balzac
€280.00Upon request and without additional charge, the book can be personalised with a printed inscription (i.e.: "Copy printed for John Doe”), to be typeset by hand and printed at the beginning of the book.Limited edition of 225 copies typeset by hand and letterpress printed.Balzac makes a shrewd and ironic critique of the bourgeois society born after the French Revolution, revealing all its ridiculousness and clumsiness. In fact, elegance belongs to few.Those who climb the rungs of the social ladder have to continually invent new forms of distinction. This resulting cyclical renewal is what we call fashion. -
L’Infinito - Giacomo Leopardi
€480.00Limited 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.
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A discussion about printing - Anton F. Doni
€150.00Limited edition of 250 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.Bilingual English-Italian edition. First English appearance.Florence, late 15th century. An animated discussion takes place about the revolution prompted by the introduction of printing, in opposition to manuscript books.The discussion reflects the opposite attitudes that, in recent times, have divided public opinion about paperless digital information and printing. The arguments are pretty much the same: aesthetic beauty versus economic convenience, nostalgia as opposed to practicality. -
ΠΕΡΙ ΦΥΣΗΩΣ - ΔΙΟΓΕΝΟΥΣ
€120.00Limited edition of 180 copies typeset by hand in original 19th-century types.Ancient Greek and Italian edition.«No printer is great if it does not print Greek. Without this effort it is impossible to serve Humanism. Because Humanism has two sources: Athens and Florence. Without these two corners of the world, it is not entirely certain that man would be able to get civilized, becoming a being able to oppose the immense power of individuality to mass action […]» Jean Zafiropulo. -
carmi - catullo
€110.00Limited edition of 470 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.«Artists like Catullus, Raphael, and Mozart have been assigned by gods the privilege of tracing unique paths, which have the fleeting and eternal traits of the perfect moment. It is no coincidence that the blaze of this miracle consumes the life of the chosen one in a short time» Carlo Saggio
