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  • 19th-century type design - specimen book (vol. 2)

    €720.00

    The 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 you 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 1800’s and 1890’s by the most notable European and North-American foundries.

  • Supplemento estetico ai Manuali Tipografici

    €0.00

    – PRICE ON REQUEST

    The "Supplement" expands and enriches the themes addressed in the previous five volumes of the set of the "Manuali Tipografici".

    A volume in the 4to format (37x23 cm) of 144 pages typeset by hand in 12 pt Tallone type.

  • 20th-century type design - specimen book (Vol. III)

    €520.00

    Fifty 20th-century masterpieces of Advertising created by the world’s foremost type designers

    This unique type specimen book allows you 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.

  • 19th-century type design - specimen book (vol. 1)

    €720.00

    The 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 you 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 1800’s and 1890’s by the most notable European and North-American foundries.

  • Italian wood types - specimen book 2/2

    €720.00
    The 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.
  • A discussion about printing - Anton F. Doni

    €150.00
    Limited 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.



  • the nocturnal train - pablo neruda

    €280.00

    Limited edition of 48 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.

  • hamlet - shakespeare

    €2,800.00

    (publication year: 1978)

    This copy comes from the collection of the printer.

    English edition. 

    Limited edition of 80 copies typeset by hand in movable types, which include a lithograph print by Fabrizio Clerici, loose in separate folder, signed and numbered. 

    One of the best plays of all time, and among the most represented ones.

  • FIVE BALLETS IN THE KITCHEN

    €100.00

    Limited edition of 74 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.

    With Autumn in sight, which evokes the pleasure of good food more than any other season, chef Cesare offers us five new recipes.

  • 20th-century type design - specimen book (VOL. I)

    €520.00

    Fifty 20th-century masterpieces of Advertising created by the world’s foremost type designers

    This unique type specimen book allows you 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.

  • Italian wood types - specimen book 1/2

    €580.00

    Type specimen book printed from wood types cut by hand in Italy between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century.

    Their kaleidoscopic expressiveness, either Apollonian or Dionysian, oldstyle or fanciful, reflects the scope of Italian creativity in the field of wood type engraving.

    This edition is part of the collections of major libraries, in Italy and abroad.

  • SUMMARY - Pablo Neruda

    €240.00

    Few copies now on sell from the archives of the Printer.

    Twenty poems which depict salient experiences occurred in the childhood and youth of the Poet: his birth, the first voyage, his step-mother, his father, his first time at sea, …
    Limited edition of 87 copies typeset by hand in metal movable types, letter by letter, and letterpress-printed.