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  • improbabile chimera - s. bandirali

    €250.00

    Collection of 7 poems, dedicated to Dino Campana and his love for Sibilla Aleramo.

    73 copies letterpress printed. Texts have been set by hand in original foundry types. Woodcut by Edoardo Fontana.

  • KUPAHÚBA, canto della foresta Amazzonica

    €280.00
    Limited edition of 320 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.

    Collection of inedited poems by Márcia Theóphilo, dedicated to the Amazon Forest, where the author spent her infancy, living there with her grandmother.

    As an anthropologist and a writer, she contributes to preserve the oral culture of the Indian tribes

    Includes an etching by Aldo Turchiaro.

  • L'INFINITO - GIACOMO LEOPARDI

    €60.00
    The 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 gilded with genuine gold leaf, featuring a fold-away hook for vertical hanging.
  • La commedia - Dante Alighieri

    €1,200.00

    Over a million types were used for the hand typesetting of this edition, which stands as a unique achievement in contemporary printing.

    Limited edition of 209 numbered copies. An edition in 3 volumes (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso) housed in a handmade box.

    Italian edition.

  • La commedia - Dante Alighieri

    €1,300.00

    Few copies left, now on sale at a special price.

    Limited edition of 700 numbered copies. An edition in 3 volumes (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso) printed by Alberto Tallone in 1967-68.

    Over a million types were used for the hand typesetting of this edition.

  • La Genesi

    €170.00
    Limited edition of 500 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.
    First book of the Bible and the Torah, Genesis is the story of the origin of the world and mankind according to Christian and Jewish faith. 
    Foreword by Monsignor Gianfranco Ravasi. Text edited by the Italian Bishops’ Conference.
  • Lamine d'oro orfiche

    €300.00

    Limited edition of 8 copies typeset by hand in original 19th-century movable types.
    The ‘Orphic’ gold tablets are tiny scraps of gold foils engraved with precepts meant as instructions to enter the Afterlife. Those fascinating invocations are one of the first evidence of ancient Greek religion, and exerted a great influence on later Greek culture.

  • 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.

  • LE COLLINE DEL PIACERE - Cesare Giaccone

    €100.00

    After “Tre atti in cucina” (2020), “Five Ballets in the Kitchen” (2021) e “Nato coi tartufi” (2022), chef Cesare gifts us five more recipes, served with satisfaction in fifty years of cooking, accompanied by memories of life lived.

    Limited edition of 139 numbered copies, typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.

    Cesare Giaccone from Langhe (Piedmont) is considered by the New York Times to be one of the absolute protagonists of contemporary haute cuisine.

  • Leonardo da Vinci's resume

    €5,000.00

    Limited edition of 24 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.

    One of 24 copies with a drypoint etching by Giuseppe Penone.

    The first modern curriculum vitae, written by Leonardo da Vinci to the Duke in Milan, proves to be a document of rare effectiveness. Its ten-point structure describes a man so versatile and polymath that it would be difficult for any other candidate to compete with that.

  • Leonardo da Vinci's resume

    €340.00

    The first modern ‘curriculum vitae’, written by Leonardo da Vinci to the Duke in Milan, proves to be a document of rare effectiveness.

  • Libroinfinito

    €750.00

    Print run of 18 copies. 
    A tribute to the 26 letters of the alphabet which give form to Literature, Libroinfinito is designed so as to create a circular, 'infinite' reading experience. Design by Giulio Iacchetti & Tallone Press.

    This is one of 18 numbered copies printed on white "Umbria" paper handmade in Fabriano.