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Moulded objects: Italian watermarks - N. Harris
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This edition, entitled "Moulded Objects. Sheets of Italian paper and their watermarks from the fifteenth to the twenty-first centuries” by Professor Neil Harris, includes original watermarks produced from 1400 to the present in the major Italian papermaking centres, which were distributed from North to South across the Country.
The fascinating historical journey traced by Neil Harris, an internationally renowned paper scholar, highlights how widespread knowledge and taste were among those who practiced the art of papermaking, which owes the invention of watermarks to Fabriano.
Edition limited to 45 numbered copies, typeset by hand in movable type, and printed letterpress on Magnani paper. -
19th-century type design - specimen book (vol. 3)
€720.00The masterpieces of 19th-century type design.
A collection of 50 specimens typeset by hand in original 19th-century metal movable types.
Limited and numbered edition of 150 copies.
This unique type specimen book allows one to appreciate the 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 1800’s and 1890’s by the most notable European and North-American foundries.
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Poems - Emily Dickinson
€2,000.00Limited edition of 2 numbered copies printed on blue paper. This edition was hand-set in metal movable types, letter by letter.
English edition.Collection of 130 poems by the ironic, solar New England poetess, one of the greatest poetical voices of all times.
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Poems - Emily Dickinson
€1,300.00Limited edition of 13 copies typeset by hand in metal movable types, letter by letter.
English edition.Collection of 130 poems by the ironic, solar New England poetess, one of the greatest poetical voices of all times.
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the nocturnal train - pablo neruda
€600.00Limited edition of 20 copies typeset by hand in movable types, letter by letter.
Tri-lingual edition (Spanish, Italian, and English).On the 13th December 1971 to Pablo Neruda was given the Nobel Prize of Literature.
Fifty years after the awarding (1971-2021), the choice to print "The Nocturnal Train" (from "Sumario. Libro donde nace la lluvia", Tallone Editore, 1963, first edition) is a way to pay homage to the Poet who, like his friend Alberto Tallone, was an enthusiastic lover of steam locomotives, an archetype of a liberated time, that of poetry and travel, as expression of knowledge and dynamism. -
20th-century type design - specimen book (Vol. V)
€520.00Fifty 20th-century masterpieces of Advertising created by the world’s foremost type designers.
This unique type specimen book allows one to appreciate the types in their original design, without the intervention of digital manipulation. In fact, this is the only collectable series typeset by hand in the original foundry types, cast between the 1900’s and 1970’s by the most notable European and North-American foundries.
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20th-century type design - specimen book (Vol. IV)
€520.00Fifty 20th-century masterpieces of Advertising created by the world’s foremost type designers.
This unique type specimen book allows one to appreciate the types in their original design, without the intervention of digital manipulation. In fact, this is the only collectable series typeset by hand in the original foundry types, cast between the 1900’s and 1970’s by the most notable European and North-American foundries.
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19th-century type design - specimen book (vol. 2)
€720.00The masterpieces of 19th-century type design.
A collection of 50 specimens typeset by hand in original 19th-century movable metal types.
Limited and numbered edition of 150 copies.
This unique type specimen book allows one to appreciate the 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 1800’s and 1890’s by the most notable European and North-American foundries.
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Supplemento estetico ai Manuali Tipografici
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This book is dedicated to the history of hand papermaking through the centuries and the history of 20th-century fine printing, and it includes original paper samples from the 16th century onwards. It is intended to expand and enrich the themes addressed in the previous five volumes of the set of the "Manuali Tipografici".
This is a volume in the 4to format (37x23 cm) of 144 pages entirely typeset by hand in metal movable type, letter by letter. 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.
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20th-century type design - specimen book (Vol. III)
€520.00Fifty 20th-century masterpieces of Advertising created by the world’s foremost type designers.
This unique type specimen book allows 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.
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19th-century type design - specimen book (vol. 1)
€720.00The masterpieces of 19th-century type design.
A collection of 50 specimens typeset by hand in original 19th-century movable metal types.
Limited and numbered edition of 150 copies.
This unique type specimen book allows one to appreciate the 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 1800’s and 1890’s by the most notable European and North-American foundries.
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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.