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Libroinfinito
€900.00Print 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.
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Le avventure di Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi
€600.00The 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.
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La Genesi
€170.00Limited 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.
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Visioni della vita rapita – Davide Rondoni
€300.00Limited edition of 120 copies typeset by hand in metal movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress printed.
First Italian anthology of Davide Rondoni’s poetry. It includes 50 poems, out of which 16 are unedited.
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Leonardo da Vinci's resume
€5,000.00Limited edition of 24 copies typeset by hand in metal movable types, letter by letter.
Each includes a drypoint etching by Giuseppe Penone, signed and numbered.
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.
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Manuale Tipografico III - Enrico Tallone et al.
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Limited edition of 358 copies typeset by hand in movable types, numbered and letterpress printed.
Dedicated to the aesthetic of papers, watermarks and inks.
Centuries of fine papermaking and fine printing tradition described through tipped-in original ancient watermarks from the 16th century onwards.
It includes more than a hundred original samples of ancient papers (starting from the 15-16th century), as well as original samples of the finest 20th-century typographic inks and papers (among which those used in the 1930s-1950s by Mondrian, Léger, Picasso, Chagall, De Chirico, Aristide Maillol and the greatest artists based in Paris). -
Manuale Tipografico IV - Enrico Tallone et al.
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– STILL AVAILABLE BY CONTACTING THE PRINTER –Dedicated to the engraving, founding and printing techniques in favour of the aesthetic of the book.
Centuries of typographical civilization described through original ancient watermarks from the 16th century onwards, and specimens handset in original foundry types cast from the 17th century onwards.
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De Aetna Liber - Petri Bembi
€430.00Limited 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 ascent to the top of the volcano Etna, during his stay in Sicily between 1492 and 1494, where he went to perfect his knowledge of Greek. This is one of the first description of the volcano ever made. The story is the background to a series of literary-scientific considerations and learned quotations from Latin and Greek classics. -
De Aetna Liber - Petri Bembi
€630.00Limited edition of 23 numbered copies typeset by hand in moveable types, letter by letter, and letterpress printed on pure cotton paper made 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 ascent to the top of the volcano Etna, during his stay in Sicily between 1492 and 1494, where he went to perfect his knowledge of Greek. This is one of the first description of the volcano ever made. The story is the background to a series of literary-scientific considerations and learned quotations from Latin and Greek classics. -
Messia - Guido Ceronetti
€280.00Poems and proses by Guido Ceronetti, dedicated to the figure of the Messiah. They are followed by short texts on the same topic, selected and translated by Guido Ceronetti, which were written by Ionesco, Virgil, Eraclitus, Isaiah, Black Elk, Rimbaud, Bloy, Beckett, Joyce, Mansour, Kafka, Sibony, Lazzaretti, Pottier, Degeyter, Sider.
Introduction by the author.
First edition in Italian.
Limited edition of 56 copies on Johannot paper, typeset by hand in metal movable type. One by one, each sort was arranged on the composing stick to form the words and the lines of text. -
Qohélet (o L'Ecclesiaste)
€400.00Italian edition of the Old Testament's “Ecclesiastes” (Hebrew: “Qoheleth”), traditionally attributed to King Solomon.
Many thoughts from it have become proverbial: "vanity of vanities, all is vanity"; "nothing new under the sun"; "the number of fools is infinite"; "everything has its time"; "all things obey to money"; etc.
Limited and numbered edition of 188 copies typeset by hand in moveable metal type.
New translation from Hebrew by Guido Ceronetti.