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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

This is one of 40 copies which include a lithograph print by Giulio Paolini expressly made for this book, signed and numbered.

English edition. Collection of 130 poems by the ironic, solar New England poetess, one of the greatest poetical voices of all time.

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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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Limited edition of 386 copies typeset by hand in movable types, and letterpress-printed.
Dedicated to the aesthetics of page layouts, types and book formats.

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.