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  • 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. 
  • Sull’indole del piacere e del dolore - P. Verri

    €280.00

    Pietro Verri (Milan 1728-1797) sheds light on the nature of human passions and the mechanisms of pleasure, anticipating the new theories of unconscious mental processes, which spur men to act in the pursuit of happiness. 

    Limited edition of 135 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.


    Language: Italian.

    Upon request and without additional charge, subscribed copies can be personalised with an inscription (i.e.: "Copy printed for John Doe”) to be printed on the book.

  • Dialogo delle Lingue - Sperone Speroni

    €460.00

    Limited edition of 16 copies typeset by hand in metal 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.

    Upon request and without additional charge, subscribed copies can be personalised with an inscription (i.e.: "Copy printed for John Doe”) to be printed in the epigraph of the book.

  • CONVIVIO - Dante Alighieri

    €320.00

    Original 1965 edition now on sale at a special price, in conjunction with the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death (1321-2021).

    Typeset by hand and printed letterpress by Alberto Tallone (1898-1968) in Alpignano, where the Press is still active today. 

    Limited edition of 700 numbered copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter.

  • Aldo Novarese

    €80.00

    Limited edition of 50 numbered copies typeset by hand in metal movable types, letter by letter.

    This 8-page booklet is a homage to Italian type designer Aldo Novarese in the centenary year of his birth (1920-2020).
    The types were used for the hand-typesetting were 
    Dattilo, Estro, Eurostile, Garaldus, Stop, Egizio, Forma. These were all designed by Novarese, and cast by Nebiolo Foundry in Turin. 

  • Giulio Da Milano creatore di tipi

    €120.00

    First and comprehensive typographical tribute to one of the most inventive 20th-century Italian type designers, who created the following four iconic typefaces: Neon, Mecano, Fregio Razionale, and Veltro. 

    A booklet of 12 pages (18x27 cm) typeset by hand in the original metal movable type cast in the 1930s.
    Limited edition of 180 copies.

  • Alessandro Butti creatore di tipi

    €100.00
    Limited edition of 300 copies typeset by hand in movable types and letterpress-printed. 
    First and comprehensive tribute to the most prominent Italian type designer in the period 1930-1950s and his very successful types. 

  • 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.

  • Il Cantico dei Cantici

    €120.00

    Limited edition of 356 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.

    Famous love poem from the Bible in the form of a dialogue between a young woman and her lover. 

  • Manuale Tipografico I - Enrico Tallone et al.

    €0.00

    – PRICE ON REQUEST – STILL AVAILABLE BY CONTACTING THE PRINTER –  

    Limited edition of 393 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter.

    Dedicated to the aesthetic of title-pages and capital letters. Includes original specimens from the 1930s onwards.



    The set of the Manuali Tipografici was typeset by hand in metal movable type two hundred years after Fournier and Bodoni's homonymous masterpieces. 
    One by one, each sort was arranged on the composing stick to form the words and the lines of text. The text type is 12-point Tallone, designed by Alberto Tallone, hand-cut on steel punches by Charles Malin in Paris, and cast by Radiguer in 1949. The set of the Manuali Tipografici is made up of more than a thousand text-pages.

  • Complemento al Manuale Tipografico I

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    Limited edition of 156 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.

    Dedicated to the aesthetics of indexes, colophons and book prospectuses.
    It includes original specimens from the 1930s onwards.

  • Manuale Tipografico II - Enrico Tallone et al.

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    – PRICE ON REQUEST – STILL AVAILABLE BY CONTACTING THE PRINTER – 

    Limited edition of 386 copies typeset by hand in metal movable types, and letterpress-printed.

    Dedicated to the aesthetics of page layouts, types and book formats.